Month: February 2020

7:20 AM ET World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua wants his next fight to be in London in June and Tottenham Hotspur’s 62,000-seater stadium is the most likely venue, promoter Eddie Hearn said. Joshua (23-1, 21 KOs), 30, defeated Mexican-American Andy Ruiz Jr in a December rematch in Saudi Arabia to win back his IBF, WBA,
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2:33 PM ET The XFL launches Saturday and will showcase a heavy emphasis on sports betting. In fact, some of the new rules were built with the engagement of the sports betting fan in mind, and wagering will be front and center during the games. “For a lot of our fans, free-to-play gaming, fantasy and
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1:41 AM ET MILWAUKEE — Road games continue to be the Mount Everest the 76ers cannot summit. Days after Ben Simmons called the 76ers “soft” and Joel Embiid cited the team’s spacing issues, Philadelphia suffered its fourth consecutive road loss Thursday night in Milwaukee. “I think it puts a lot of things in perspective,” Al
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11:23 PM ET ESPN News Services The New York Mets said Thursday night in a statement they intend to find another buyer after talks ended over the proposed sale of a controlling share of the team from the families of Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz to hedge fund manager Steve Cohen. It is unclear if
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10:08 PM ET NFL Players Association player representatives and members of the union’s executive committee met for approximately eight hours Thursday in Los Angeles, but no decisions were made regarding the approval of a new collective bargaining agreement with the league. The players have been discussing a new CBA proposal, negotiated over the past 10
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9:49 PM ET Youngstown State is expected to hire Cincinnati assistant Doug Phillips as its next coach, a source told ESPN. Phillips, who has coached Cincinnati’s running backs the past two seasons and been on staff the past three, will replace Bo Pelini, who left YSU to become defensive coordinator at LSU. Phillips, 51, received
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9:27 PM ET South Carolina announced the signing of five-star defensive end Jordan Burch on Thursday. After not submitting his national letter of intent on Wednesday, Burch is now officially part of the Gamecocks’ 2020 class. Burch, ranked No. 4 in the ESPN 300, announced his commitment to the Gamecocks in December but never signed
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