1:02 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN David Benavidez and David Lemieux will meet on May 21 at Footprint Arena in Phoenix, Benavidez’s hometown, for a Premier Boxing Champions on Showtime main event, sources told ESPN on Friday. ESPN reported in December that the boxers signed contracts for the 168-pound bout that could line the winner up
7:00 AM ET The 2022 NHL trade deadline is March 21, and front offices are working overtime. It’s not just an influx of scouts at games — general managers and assistant general managers are populating the press boxes, too. Calls are picking up in frequency and discussions are intensifying. Here’s some scuttle I’ve been hearing
11:48 AM ET Associated Press Former Top 20 player Varvara Lepchenko was given a four-year doping suspension on Friday by the International Tennis Federation after she tested positive for a banned stimulant during a tournament last year. Her lawyer, Howard Jacobs, wrote in an email to The Associated Press that Lepchenko intends to appeal the
8:30 AM ET Hours before the negotiation teams of the players and owners met Thursday, one industry source lamented the state of the game. Each side is entrenched and angry, the source noted. “I don’t even know where we go from here,” he said. “I really don’t. Everybody is painted into a corner.” With the
7:56 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Gennadiy Golovkin was the main attraction, a staple of HBO Boxing for nearly a decade, but just before he entered the ring in Inglewood, California, on a May 2015 night to face Willie Monroe Jr., there was a diminutive boxer from Nicaragua who had the industry buzzing. With a second-round
Report Australia managed just one wicket on the opening day of the series Pakistan 245 for 1 (Imam 132*, Azhar 64*) vs Australia Recalled opener Imam-ul-Haq justified his selection in style with a brilliant maiden Test century to lead a disciplined Pakistan into early control of the series opener, as Australia’s pace-heavy attack toiled in
4:00 AM ET Alex KirklandESPN FC Real Madrid play Real Sociedad in LaLiga on Saturday. You could call it the ‘Real‘ derby. Except it isn’t, of course: Real Sociedad are based 200 miles north of Spain’s capital in the Basque Country, close to the French border. But nonetheless, it feels like a good time to
7:52 AM ET Josh Taylor made a big statement in May, when he defeated Jose Ramirez to win all four major junior welterweight belts. Taylor had another opportunity to show the world that his victory wasn’t just a one-off this past weekend, when he faced mandatory challenger Jack Catterall. But while Taylor won a split
7:48 AM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi COCONUT CREEK, Fla. – Jorge Masvidal walked into the American Top Team (ATT) gym one day in September 2019 and spotted Colby Covington. The two men, formerly best friends and
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff On Aug. 24, the commissioners of the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 held a joint video conference to announce the Alliance, a new partnership between three of the five most powerful conferences in college athletics. The launch generated immediate reaction — and memes from “The Office” — and set expectations