Month: May 2020

4:27 PM ET ESPN News Services GLENDALE, Ariz. — Arizona Coyotes president and CEO Ahron Cohen is no longer with the organization, The Athletic first reported by Tuesday. Cohen has been with the Coyotes since being hired in 2015 as chief operating officer and chief legal officer by previous owner Andrew Barroway. Cohen was named
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12:00 PM ET Marc J. Spears The Mamba Sports Academy is retiring “Mamba” from its name, out of respect for the late Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant. The Mamba Sports Academy was launched in 2018 as a joint athletic training business venture with Bryant and Sports Academy CEO Chad Faulkner. The name will change
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12:41 PM ET UFC president Dana White said Tuesday that he expects the lightweight unification bout between champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim champ Justin Gaethje to happen on Fight Island this summer. “I don’t know if it will be the first one, but it will be on Fight Island, unless miraculously the world comes back
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12:18 PM ET Steve KimESPN Boxing’s calendar is about to be booked up once again, according to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum. Arum said during a recent interview on IFL TV that he hopes to start making announcements on an upcoming schedule starting next week. “It’ll be all fighters who have either appeared on the
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8:22 AM ET Former Indian singles pro Somdev Devvarman has called criticism directed towards Dominic Thiem for his contrarian stand on the relief fund for lower-ranked tennis players ‘unjust’, termin the Austrian’s argument ‘valid’. The relief fund for lower-ranked players struggling financially, set up on Novak Djokovic-led Player Council’s call, has resurrected the pay disparity
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