Month: September 2019

5:38 PM ET Junior middleweights Erickson Lubin and Terrell Gausha will meet in a world title eliminator on Oct. 26, Premier Boxing Champions announced on Monday. The fight will take place at Santander Arena in Reading, Pennsylvania, and headline a Showtime- televised tripleheader (9 p.m. ET). In the co-feature, former lightweight world titlist Robert Easter
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5:24 PM ET Associated Press ELMONT, N.Y. — Work has begun on a $1.3 billion arena for the New York Islanders hockey team at Belmont Park. The 19,000-seat arena will also include shops, restaurants and a hotel. Work is expected to be completed in time for the 2021-2022 season. Until then, the Islanders will play
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10:06 AM ET ESPN.com staff It takes a special breed to know what season it is right now. Fall? Nope. Football season? Nope. Baseball postseason? Nope. C’mon! If you’re reading this, you are the right breed. The kind of person who knows it is … fantasy basketball season! NBA training camps and preseason games will
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4:02 PM ET Daniel Cormier will not retire just yet. The former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion said Monday on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show that he will return to the UFC, but for just one more fight. And the only opponent he is interested in is Stipe Miocic. Miocic knocked out Cormier in the
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2:50 PM ET Jeremy Stephens and Yair Rodriguez got into a minor scuffle Sunday, one day after their UFC main event ended in messy fashion. The UFC Mexico City headliner was ruled a no contest after just 15 seconds when Stephens was unable to continue due to a Rodriguez eye poke. Stephens was unable to
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1:31 PM ET Texas will be without several key defensive backs for the next month or longer, coach Tom Herman said Monday. Safety Caden Sterns, a first-team All-Big 12 selection and the league’s defensive freshman of the year in 2018, will miss four weeks with a sprained knee. Sterns leads Texas with 29 tackles. Junior
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12:35 PM ET Indianapolis Colts starting safety Malik Hooker tore the meniscus in his knee and is expected to be out four to six weeks, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Hooker returned to Sunday’s 27-24 victory over the Atlanta Falcons despite the injury and finished the game. He had two tackles in the game,
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1:01 PM ET Another of the big restricted free agents is off the board with the Tampa Bay Lightning signing center Brayden Point to a three-year, $20.25 million deal. “We are very pleased to re-sign Brayden today,” Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois said in a statement. “He is the consummate professional with an unwavering commitment
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