Month: April 2019

12:17 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print It’s Monday, time for another edition of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. Dustin Poirier and Israel Adesanya both earned UFC interim titles Saturday after vastly different paths to their belts. Their wins set up two career-defining fights. This week’s show, aired live starting at 1 p.m.
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4:06 PM ET Opening Bell: Lomachenko is the man LOS ANGELES — Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko, the unified lightweight champion, is everything fans should want in a prizefighter. He fights regularly. Always comes in shape. Always entertains. No ducking either, because he’s willing to fight the best opponents available. And he has skills so supreme
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3:55 PM ET The Philadelphia Phillies have placed reliever David Robertson on the 10-day injured list with soreness in his pitching elbow. Robertson, 34, has a 5.40 ERA in seven appearances this season, his first with the Phillies. The right-hander threw two scoreless innings Sunday in Philadelphia’s 14-inning victory over the Marlins. The Phillies signed
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3:33 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz is not yet fully recovered from the stress fracture in his back that cut short his 2018 season. “It’s still getting there. It’s still getting there,” Wentz said Monday at the start of the team’s offseason training program, when asked if the bone is fully healed.
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3:45 PM ET Israel Adesanya won the UFC’s interim middleweight belt on Saturday after an epic back-and-forth battle with Kelvin Gastelum. Jon Jones, however, wasn’t impressed. He took to social media in a series of now-deleted tweets discrediting Adesanya’s victory and shooting down any shot the 29-year-old has against him in a potential fight. “You
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2:24 PM ET Associated Press Denis Shapovalov‘s clay-court campaign got off to a poor start as he lost 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 to Jan-Lennard Struff in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Monday. The 20-year-old Shapovalov arrived after a good run on hard courts at the Miami Open, where he lost to Roger
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2:13 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he will present Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Woods won his fifth Masters title Sunday, overcoming personal and professional adversity to once more claim the green jacket. Trump tweeted Monday that he spoke to Woods and congratulated him on “the great
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