Month: September 2021

3:36 PM ET A Brooks Koepka moment that doesn’t actually include Bryson DeChambeau? Well, yes, that is possible. On Thursday, during the first round of the season-ending Tour Championship — the final stop in the $15 million-for-the-winner FedEx Cup playoffs — Koepka got off to a hot start. And he needed it. Given the staggered
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Sep 1, 2021 Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Ireland’s Katie Taylor hopes retaining her world lightweight titles on Saturday against Jennifer Han will land her a fight with Amanda Serrano. Taylor, who
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News The batter had been omitted from the Caribbean and Bangladesh tours because of failed fitness tests Avishka Fernando, long considered one of Sri Lanka’s finest limited-overs batting prospects, was left out of the squad entirely for Sri Lanka’s first two limited-overs assignments this year (in the Caribbean, and in Bangladesh). The omission wasn’t down
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1:28 PM ET Bryson Warren, the No. 14 basketball prospect in ESPN’s Class of 2023, has signed with Overtime Elite, the league told ESPN on Thursday. Warren is the eighth five-star recruit to sign with the upstart league. Considered one of the top guard prospects in the class, Warren shunned offers from Arkansas, Tennessee, Kansas,
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11:50 AM ET For the first time in her already decorated MMA career, Zhang Weili will be doing her training camp in the United States. Zhang, the former UFC women’s strawweight champion, will be arriving later this month in Arizona to train at Fight Ready in Scottsdale, her coach Pedro Jordao told ESPN. Zhang, who
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11:55 AM ET ZANDVOORT, Netherlands — Fellow world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel led tributes to the retiring Kimi Raikkonen, who said he has no immediate plans to keep racing beyond 2021. Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion, announced on Wednesday he will step away from F1 at the end of the season. The Finnish
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9:50 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN RENTON, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Wednesday that he’s “counting on” veteran left tackle Duane Brown playing in the team’s regular-season opener. While Carroll stopped well short of declaring anything, it was the most optimism he has expressed that Brown will be on the field Sept. 12
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