3:57 PM ET ST. LOUIS — Wayne Gretzky called women’s hockey players involvement in the NHL All Star game “a big step forward” in growing the sport — and he hopes the league will continue to stay committed to the women’s game. “Exposure is everything,” Gretzky told ESPN on Friday, ahead of the inaugural 3-on-3
Month: January 2020
3:35 PM ET Todd Orlando has been hired as USC‘s new defensive coordinator, the school announced Friday. Orlando replaces Clancy Pendergast, who was let go by the Trojans following the 2019 season. Orlando, 48, had been fired after three seasons at Texas on Dec. 1 as part of a shake-up of the coaching staff. He
1:34 PM ET In a surprise, promoter Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing on Friday won the purse bid for the fight between unified junior welterweight world titlist Josh Taylor and mandatory challenger Apinun Khongsong. Lewkowicz, Khongsong’s co-promoter, bid $1.32 million to gain promotional rights to the bout, beating the only other bidder, new Taylor promoter
1:41 PM ET What would have been the last fight on Paige VanZant‘s UFC contract has been pushed back. VanZant confirmed Friday on Instagram that she is out of her scheduled women’s strawweight bout against Amanda Ribas at UFC Brasilia on March 14 in Brazil. Randa Markos will fill in for VanZant and fight Ribas
1:15 PM ET Associated Press SAO PAULO — The clay-court Rio Open tournament in February will have the first trial of electronic technology for the surface. The Challenger Tour has trialed the technology before on clay, but it has never been seen at ATP level, with umpires often getting out of their chairs to check
12:57 PM GMT SA Rugby have named former physio Jacques Nienaber as the Springboks’ head coach, as well as a revamped coaching staff as they head into the new season. The group will report to Rassie Erasmus, the former head coach and now Director of Rugby, who led the South Africa to the 2019 Rugby
5:40 PM GMT 23-overs-a-side India Under-19 115 for no loss (Jaiswal 57*, Saxena 52*) beat New Zealand Under-19 147 (Mariu 42, Lellman 31, Bishnoi 4-30, Ankolekar 3-28) by 44 runs (DLS method) India were challenged for the first time in the tournament but they escaped unscathed. Their opening pair of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Divyaansh Saxena
12:07 PM ET Associated Press BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, England — The Ladies European Tour will have its biggest schedule in nearly a decade and record prize money that includes bonus money for the top three players at the end of the season. The 24 tournaments held in 16 countries offers a total prize fund of nearly 18
11:46 AM ET Quarterback Eli Manning, who owns every significant New York Giants career passing record, made his retirement official at a news conference on Friday inside the Giants’ field house. Manning, 39, is the only player in franchise history to suit up for 16 seasons and his 236 regular-season games (234 starts) and 248
8:12 AM ET Steve KimESPN What does Danny Garcia’s current career résumé tell us about how good he really is? His staunchest supporters, led by his boisterous father, Angel, will tell you that he is among the elite fighters in the sport. His detractors say that he’s vastly overrated. The truth is probably somewhere in
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