10:00 PM ET PHOENIX — UFC title challenger Marvin Vettori was physically removed from a news conference Thursday after a near altercation with his opponent, middleweight champion Israel Adesanya. At the tail end of a prefight news conference, after nearly a half-hour of the two sparring verbally, Vettori got up to confront Adesanya twice with
2:00 PM ET The new Extreme E electric off-road series has cancelled races in Brazil’s Amazon and Argentina’s Patagonia regions due to the coronavirus pandemic, with Scotland now a possible alternative, it said in a statement on Friday. The Amazon round was scheduled for Oct. 23-24 with the Glacier X Prix listed for Dec. 11-12.
1:46 PM BST South Africa’s Lions franchise have been forced to cancel their final fixture in the Rainbow Cup due to COVID-19 infections in their squad just three weeks before they host the British & Irish Lions in Johannesburg. The side were due to play the Stormers at the Cape Town Stadium on Saturday, but
Chetan Sakariya has been training in Chennai for the past three weeks © BCCI/IPL The year 2021 has given Chetan Sakariya some of his most cherished memories. But it has also taken away the pillars of his life. In February, his younger brother died by suicide days before the IPL auction. In May, soon after
12:30 PM ET This might not have been the French Open women’s finals matchup most expected, but it will undoubtedly be a career-changing match for Barbora Krejcikova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova when they face off Saturday in Paris. Pavlyuchenkova reached a Slam final for the first time in 52 major appearances and is the first Russian
3:00 AM ET Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell writhed in pain on the Vivint Arena court with 12 seconds remaining in Thursday’s Game 2 against the LA Clippers, reaching toward the right ankle that he sprained several weeks ago. Mitchell got up after several seconds, shot his free throws and finished the 117-111 victory that
12:00 PM ET As happens with most major international tournament these days, UEFA has released its official player portraits for Euro 2020. 1 Related Each and every player taking part in the competition has their photograph taken beforehand, with some taking the task more seriously than others. There are still a few stars yet to
8:01 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Shakur Stevenson nonchalantly sat on the stage rocking a gray Nike hoodie, black basketball shorts and a New York Yankees hat cocked to one side at his prefight news conference, when his opponent on Saturday — Jeremiah Nakathila — said something that made Stevenson quickly turn his head in
8:38 AM ET Shakur Stevenson’s smile disappears. He’s approached with the one question that he’s thought about plenty over the past six months: What’s next? It’s frustrated him. He’s tired of waiting. Stevenson sits up straight, looks ahead and without hesitation says, “I want Oscar Valdez next. Nothing else. That’s the big fight. That’s the
7:15 AM ET The private jet taxied into its hangar in Phoenix on Sunday, shortly after 5 p.m. local time. It carried passengers who had boarded a couple of hours earlier in Stockton, California. But they’ve been on a long, strange trip for years. Nate Diaz arrived for UFC 263 with friends who remember when