2:52 PM ET Steve KimESPN Naoya Inoue’s Top Rank debut is set. The unified bantamweight titlist and ESPN’s No. 4 pound-for-pound fighter is scheduled to face Jason Moloney (21-1, 18 KOs) at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas this fall, according to Moloney’s manager, Tony Tolj. “We’re still in talks and finalizing the
Month: September 2020
11:31 AM ET ESPN.com staff The 146th running of the Kentucky Derby will take place Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, sans fans. Usually the first race of the Triple Crown, the Derby was rescheduled from May 2 to Sept. 5 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tiz the Law took the first leg of
2:56 PM ET Associated Press ORCIERES-MERLETTE, France — After just four stages at the Tour de France, the balance of power is already clearer: Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team are looking like the ones to beat. Roglic, the Spanish Vuelta champion, used the race’s first summit finish Tuesday in the ski resort of Orcieres-Merlette
2:22 PM ET Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley named redshirt freshman Spencer Rattler as the Sooners’ starting quarterback on Tuesday. He’ll be the fourth starting quarterback for the Sooners in the past four seasons, following Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray and Jalen Hurts, all of whom were transfers who previously started for other schools. “Spencer has played
7:12 AM ET Through six volcanic NBA playoff games against the Utah Jazz, Jamal Murray has: Averaged 34 points. Put up 50, 42, then 50 again — the last two in season-saving wins, as the Denver Nuggets look to become the first team since the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers to rally from a 3-1 deficit. (Do
7:07 AM ET Sebastian Vettel suspects Ferrari’s fans are suffering as much as the team following its recent slump in form, but says he would not expect to be booed at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix if the race at Monza were open to the public. 1 Related Ferrari failed to score a point at
6:52 AM ET Lewis Hamilton has acknowledged that if he had been a Formula One fan watching the same man reel off one dominant win after another, it might even have sent him to sleep. “Having been a fan growing up, having lived in different eras, watching the Schumacher era, of course I know what
11:12 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Editor’s note: Tor-Kristian Karlsen is a Norwegian football scout and executive and is the former chief executive and sporting director at AS Monaco. He will write regularly for ESPN on the business of soccer and the process of scouting. In his latest column, he looks at Gabriel, the Lille defender
8:16 PM IST Ian Watmore, the ECB’s new chair, has admitted the current make-up of the board is “not acceptable” and insisted there must be more diversity within the administration of cricket. Watmore, who officially replaced Colin Graves as ECB on September 1, believes the ECB can’t lead the sport effectively unless its leadership is
11:32 PM ET Miami Heat All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler scored a career-playoff-high 40 points in Monday’s 115-104 Game 1 win over the Milwaukee Bucks, taking over the game down the stretch just like his teammates and coaches thought he would. Butler repeatedly made big plays on both ends of the floor, much to the delight