Month: June 2019

12:55 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN CHICAGO — Valentina Shevchenko‘s first title defense ended in highlight-reel fashion. Shevchenko blasted challenger Jessica Eye with a left head kick at 26 seconds of the second round that knocked Eye out cold in the co-main event of UFC 238 on Saturday night at the United Center. Shevchenko successfully retained
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12:52 AM ET Steve KimESPN Oscar Valdez retained his WBO featherweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision victory over Jason Sanchez in an entertaining but one-sided fight at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday. All three judges scored the fight for Valdez 117-110 and 118-109 (twice). Sanchez (14-1, 7 KOs) was certainly
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12:10 AM ET Shohei Ohtani gave Yusei Kikuchi a rude welcome on Saturday, hitting a home run and a single off of the Mariners rookie in the first MLB matchup between the Japanese stars. With about 80 members of the Japanese media looking on at Angel Stadium, Ohtani beat out an infield single in the
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3:40 AM ET NEW YORK — Gennady Golovkin entered the ring to face unheralded Steve Rolls on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden well aware of what had transpired one week earlier when huge underdog Andy Ruiz Jr. pulled a massive upset by knocking out England’s Anthony Joshua. Rolls said all week that he was
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7:45 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN FRAN FRASCHILLA ARRIVED arrived at the 2008 Paul Pierce skill development camp at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California, waiting to be impressed. “We had about 25 kids there,” said Fraschilla, the ESPN analyst and former college basketball coach, “and I don’t want to look at the list
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9:31 PM ET Associated Press ANCASTER, Ontario — Rory McIlroy added the Canadian Open to his schedule as a tuneup for next week’s U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. Now he has a chance to add another national championship to his already impressive tally. The Northern Irishman shot a bogey-free 6-under 64 on Saturday to move
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