Month: February 2023

11:11 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It wasn’t the Daytona 500, but Austin Hill gladly took the win. Hill won the Xfinity Series season-opening race Saturday night for the second consecutive year to diminish some of the sting the Richard Childress Racing driver felt two days earlier when he failed to qualify
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10:03 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Erin Blanchfield might just be one of the best young title prospects the UFC has seen in years. Blanchfield, 23, picked up the biggest win of her career on Saturday, submitting former strawweight champion Jessica Andrade via rear-naked choke at the 1-minute, 37-second mark of the second round. The
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7:29 PM ET 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 Mauricio Lara once again showed his clinical finishing-punch power by stopping Leigh Wood in the seventh round to win the WBA world featherweight title
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6:15 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia have both signed contracts for an April 15 super fight in Las Vegas at a 136-pound catchweight, sources told ESPN on Saturday. The deal, which has been in the works since November, will be finalized once broadcasters Showtime and DAZN sign contracts, sources said. Showtime,
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5:19 PM ET GLENDALE — Chicago White Sox pitching coach Ethan Katz had to fight back tears Saturday while discussing closer Liam Hendriks’ recent cancer diagnosis. “He’s special and everyone in that clubhouse knows that,” Katz said while choking up. Hendriks, 34, announced in early January that he’s receiving treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, but that
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3:34 PM ET Nick Pope was sent off in Newcastle’s Premier League clash against Liverpool on Saturday. Photo by George Wood/Getty Images Newcastle‘s third-choice goalkeeper Loris Karius is in line to make his first senior appearance for two years in the Carabao Cup final against Manchester United next week after Nick Pope sparked a keeper crisis
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5:04 PM ET New Jersey Devils All-Star forward Jack Hughes, who was week-to-week with an upper-body injury, is back in the lineup for Saturday’s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Devils coach Lindy Ruff confirmed Hughes’ reentry on Saturday afternoon, as New Jersey prepared to wrap up a four-game road trip against its division rival. Editor’s
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4:35 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES — The second seed of the Argentina Open advanced to the final of the clay-court tournament on Saturday. Cameron Norrie of Great Britain beat Peru’s Juan Pablo Varillas 7-6 (5), 6-4. The 12th-best-ranked player is sure to face a Spanish rival on Sunday. Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz will play
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1:04 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Richard Petty might still reign as NASCAR’s King, but with Jimmie Johnson wresting control of Petty’s old race team, he is definitively not the boss. Petty essentially has been stripped of power inside his former eponymous race team that rapidly rebranded and has been rebuilt since
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