12:38 AM ET Steve Kim Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Thursday night’s Top Rank card was about seeing if two fighters could respond from recent losses and show they could be true contenders. The evening started
Month: July 2020
9:03 AM ET Steve KimESPN Highly touted two-time Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Ramirez made his professional debut in August in Philadelphia. He was matched up with unheralded Adan Gonzales, who at the time sported a 4-2-2 record. It was a fight designed to showcase the skills of the Cuban southpaw, an opportunity for Ramirez to
4:52 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — All 30 Major League Baseball teams will train at their regular-season ballparks for the pandemic-shortened season after the Toronto Blue Jays received a Canadian federal government exemption on Thursday to work out at Rogers Centre. Toronto will move camp from its spring training complex in Dunedin, Florida., where
9:57 PM ET Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy needs to “invest more time in building stronger relationships with his student-athletes,” according to an internal review of the program, which “uncovered no signs or indication of racism,” athletic director Mike Holder said in a statement Thursday night. Last month, Gundy apologized for the “pain and discomfort”
5:38 PM ET Steve KimESPN Highly touted featherweight prospect and two-time Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Ramirez evened the score against Adan Gonzales, who defeated him last year in his pro debut. This time Ramirez pitched a six-round shutout, winning 60-54 on all three cards on the Jose Pedraza-Mikkel LesPierre undercard Thursday night at the MGM
10:13 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Phillies have placed infielder Scott Kingery and pitchers Hector Neris, Ranger Suarez and Tommy Hunter on the 10-day injured list with no specified injuries. The team opens camp on Friday, but the four players won’t be eligible to return until late next week at the earliest.
6:08 PM ET FedEx, which has naming rights to the stadium in which the Washington Redskins play, made a request Thursday that the team change its nickname. “We have communicated to the team in Washington our request that they change the team name,” FedEx said in a statement obtained by ESPN. FedEx paid $205 million
10:18 PM ET If the NFL is able to conduct a 2020 season, players will participate under a number of coronavirus-related restriction on the field and off. That could mean playing in specially designed face masks and potential fines for off-field activities that lead to the spread of the virus. The NFLPA conducted a two-hour
5:14 PM ET Texas linebacker DeMarvion Overshown says that until “real action” is taken regarding Longhorns players’ demands that the university be more inclusive for Black athletes and the Black community, he will be “sitting out of all team activities.” “We have been told that things are being done behind close doors but have yet
9:08 PM ET As a precaution, the LA Clippers shut down the team’s practice facility on Thursday after a positive coronavirus test within the traveling party headed to Orlando, Florida, for the league restart, sources told ESPN. The Clippers could reopen the facility for workouts prior to the team’s planned Wednesday departure for Florida, sources