5:19 PM ET ESPN News Services WEST POINT, N.Y. — Fans won’t be allowed at the Army-Navy football game at West Point on Saturday because of COVID-19 restrictions, but Army athletic director Mike Buddie made an exception for Gary Steele. Steele, a retired colonel, was one of about 30 Black students at the academy in
Month: December 2020
6:32 PM GMT Associated Press LONDON — Rugby Football Union (RFU) chief executive Bill Sweeney has said English rugby officials have yet to receive any legal contact from the group of former players preparing claims for negligence against national unions. Steve Thompson, one of England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup winners, former England flanker Michael Lipman
5:30 PM ET HOUSTON — Hinako Shibuno can do without the “Cinderella” nickname, just not the smile. That was bright as ever Friday as the Japanese star posted a 4-under 67 and opened a 3-shot lead going into the weekend of the U.S. Women’s Open. Shibuno’s lone mistake on a damp, soft day at Champions
6:02 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Kevin Na and Sean O’Hair teamed to shoot a 16-under 56 in the scramble format Friday to take the first-round lead in the QBE Shootout. Na and O’Hair had two eagles and 12 birdies on the Tiburon Golf Club’s Gold Course. O’Hair won the unofficial PGA Tour
1:18 AM ET Bellator has a new flyweight queen. Juliana Velasquez beat Ilima-Lei Macfarlane via unanimous decision (48-47, 49-46, 48-47) to win the Bellator women’s flyweight title Thursday night in the main event of Bellator 254 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. Macfarlane had been the only women’s flyweight champion the promotion had known up
5:52 PM ET The plaintiffs in the long-running antitrust lawsuit against the UFC have earned a victory. Judge Richard Boulware of the United States District Court in Nevada granted the plaintiffs class certification on a status conference call Thursday, opening the door for nearly 1,200 fighters to be included in what will now be considered
7:04 PM ET Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green and No. 2 overall NBA draft pick James Wiseman are both “very unlikely” to play in the team’s three preseason games, coach Steve Kerr said Thursday. “Neither one will play Saturday [versus Denver] and very unlikely to play either game in Sacramento, too,” Kerr said during
4:08 PM ET The stakes for next week’s Canelo Alvarez-Callum Smith fight have been raised once again. In addition to the WBA super middleweight title, Matchroom Boxing, the WBC and Canelo Promotions announced that the WBC’s version of the belt also will be on the line. The WBC belt became vacant when David Benavidez missed
2:51 PM GMT Nigel Owens, the most-capped referee in world rugby, announced on Friday that he has ended his 17-year international career. Owens, 49, became the first referee to officiate in a century of tests when he took charge of an Autumn Nations Cup clash between France and Italy last month. The Welshman it was
1:32 PM ET The group stages of the 2020-21 Champions League took the feel of a decent romantic comedy: there were just enough unexpected plot twists to make you doubt how things might end, but then it all wrapped up how you expected it to all along. (As always in rom-coms, the supporting cast —
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