5:07 PM ET Former bantamweight champion Holly Holm will make her return to the Octagon against Mexican contender Irene Aldana on Aug. 1, sources said. The UFC originally planned to promote a pay-per-view event on Aug. 1, but that particular date has since been changed to a UFC Fight Night. It is expected to take
Month: June 2020
10:21 PM ET With UFC 250 in the books, the promotion is now turning its attention to its next pay-per-view event. The UFC is targeting Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway 2 for the featherweight title on July 11, sources told ESPN. The fight, however, isn’t signed just yet. Volkanovski defeated Holloway to win the title
4:22 PM ET Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes have made Xavier Gutierrez the first Latino team president and CEO in NHL history. Gutierrez’s hiring was announced Monday by Alex Meruelo, who became the NHL’s first Latino controlling owner when he bought a majority stake in the Coyotes last year. “This is a
7:30 PM ET Clemson coach Dabo Swinney on Monday defended his response to an assistant coach’s use of a racial slur during a practice three years ago. Nearly a week after assistant coach Danny Pearman apologized for using the slur, Swinney made his first public comments about what happened in a taped message posted to
7:50 PM ET The morning before he became the only baseball player to kneel for the national anthem, then-Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell called outfielder Delino DeShields, then a member of the Texas Rangers, to tell him about his plans. After President Donald Trump had called kneeling NFL players “sons of bitches” in 2017, Maxwell
6:07 PM ET With no spectators, golf promises to be quite different when the PGA Tour returns this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Long-time CBS lead announcer Jim Nantz, for example, will be alone in the 18th hole tower — with lead analyst Nick Faldo working from a studio in Orlando, Florida, and other
4:39 PM ET Steve KimESPN Boxing is set to return to Las Vegas on Tuesday as all 10 boxers on the five-fight card weighed in successfully. However, there was some weigh-in drama ahead of the first boxing event in the city since Feb. 22. Headliner Shakur Stevenson (13-0, 7 KOs) weighed in at 130 pounds,
7:55 PM ET Steve KimESPN Shakur Stevenson will be without trainer Kay Koroma on Tuesday when he faces Felix Caraballo in the main event of Top Rank’s boxing card in Las Vegas. Although he tested negative for the coronavirus on Saturday, Koroma has been in contact with Mikaela Mayer, another fighter he trains and was
4:55 PM ET The Pro Football Hall of Fame, which has been closed since mid-March after never previously being closed for two consecutive days, will reopen Wednesday. Hall of Fame president and CEO David Baker said Monday that it has taken “quite the overhaul” to get the Canton, Ohio, museum ready for visitors. The Hall
2:52 PM ET Pro basketball player Kerron Johnson, the brother of Detroit Lions running back Kerryon Johnson, has returned home to Alabama after spending months stuck in Romania because of the coronavirus pandemic. Johnson, who had been searching for flights from Europe since mid-March to get back to the United States, finally found a flight
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