Month: September 2019

6:01 PM ET Associated Press GRAND BLANC, Mich. — Scott McCarron, Retief Goosen and Tom Gillis shot 6-under 66 on Friday to share the first-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Ally Challenge. McCarron, the Charles Schwab Cup points leader and a three-time winner this year, birdied the par-5 16th and par-3 17th in a
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4:53 PM ET The New Orleans Pelicans have named Jeff Bzdelik an associate coach for defense and promoted Chris Finch to associate head coach for the offense, the team announced Friday. Bzdelik, 66, worked the past three seasons with the Houston Rockets and received credit for the team’s defensive turnaround. He began a stint as
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5:02 PM ET Chris Berman and Tom Jackson, who teamed up to co-host ESPN’s NFL PrimeTime for 19 seasons, will reunite as the show returns, beginning Sunday, on ESPN+, it was announced Friday. From 1987 to 2005, Berman and Jackson helped redefine NFL highlights with their back-and-forth banter, Berman’s signature player nicknames and delivery, and
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2:53 PM ET The co-main event for the UFC’s first trip to Denmark is in flux. Thiago Alves is out of his scheduled welterweight co-headliner against Gunnar Nelson at UFC Copenhagen because of an “unexpected illness,” Alves announced Thursday on Instagram. The UFC is seeking a replacement to fight Nelson, sources said. “I tried everything
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2:42 PM ET LAS VEGAS – Top Rank on Friday formally unveiled most of its loaded fall schedule of main events, which includes four consecutive weeks of world title bouts on ESPN or ESPN+. “This is a tremendous lineup of fights that Top Rank is bringing to ESPN and ESPN+ in the fall,” Arum said.
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1:17 PM ET Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today Steve Kim Middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez finally has an opponent to fight this fall, but it won’t be a title defense. Instead, Alvarez, who decided
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1:05 PM ET The UFC’s all-action main event for UFC Vancouver is official. Donald Cerrone and Justin Gaethje both made weight for their headlining lightweight bout Friday. Cerrone hit the scale at 155.5 pounds and Gaethje weighed in at the same, 155.5 pounds. The UFC Vancouver main card airs Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on
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