Month: May 2019

Nicolas Mezquida’s tidy finish late on handed Colorado Rapids a hard fought 3-2 win over Columbus Crew SC. Columbus Crew midfielder Federico Higuain, the team’s all-time assists leader, is expected to miss the rest of the season after undergoing anterior cruciate ligament surgery in the coming days. Higuain was hurt during a 3-2 loss to
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4:55 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN The UFC main event this weekend is official. Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony Smith both made weight Friday morning for their light heavyweight main event fight, scheduled for Saturday at UFC Stockholm. Gustafsson weighed in at 205 pounds on the dot, and Smith weighed 206. Gustafsson and Smith are each top
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3:41 AM ET Just six weeks after suffering a knockout loss to welterweight world titlist Terence Crawford, Amir Khan announced his next fight on Friday. Khan, a former unified junior welterweight world titleholder, will challenge India’s Neeraj Goyat for his regional welterweight belt on July 12 at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi
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3:26 AM ET Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. — Some University of Georgia fans will be able to buy beer during football games — but only donors who have agreed to give tens of thousands of dollars will be allowed to drink. UGA athletic director Greg McGarity told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday that beer and
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2:57 AM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Hyun-Jin Ryu was all but untouchable in May. His final start of the month was no different Thursday night as the left-hander pitched four-hit ball into the eighth inning of his latest dominant outing, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-0 win over the New York
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1:21 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket South Africa’s transformation targets will not apply at the World Cup, and that’s just fine with Kagiso Rabada, who believes that transformation “should happen at the grassroots”. “At a professional level, players should be picked on merit,” Rabada told ESPNcricinfo in an exclusive interview recently. “For me, transformation is
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12:18 AM ET Three former UCLA football players are suing the school for alleged negligence in the handling of injuries while they played for the Bruins under coach Jim Mora. All three lawsuits are seeking damages of more than $15 million. Former offensive linemen John Lopez and Poasi Moala say that UCLA mishandled several head
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10:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” For the first two weeks of the baseball season, WAR goes dark. Baseball-Reference.com didn’t roll out the first run of its all-encompassing stat until the morning of April 9, by which point
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9:37 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Blues forward Oskar Sundqvist has been suspended for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final for delivering an elbow to the head of Boston Bruins defenseman Matt Grzelcyk. The NHL’s department of player safety announced the suspension Thursday after a hearing with Sundqvist, who was assessed only
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