7:00 AM ET Tony Bennett’s five fellow NBA alumni coaching in the 2021 NCAA tournament can only hope Bennett has started a trend. When Bennett’s Virginia Cavaliers became college basketball’s most recent national champions in April 2019, the ex-Charlotte Hornet became just the fifth person to both play minutes in a meaningful NBA game and
7:00 AM ET Matt Campbell and his assistants weren’t going to pitch their players on staying at Iowa State. When the NCAA in August approved a blanket waiver, allowing all 2020 fall sports seniors to return in 2021, Iowa State’s coaches took a hands-off approach. “There was not one ounce of us trying to say,
8:39 AM ET After a few eventful days in the boxing world, attention has turned back towards Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua with the announcement that the two heavyweight world titlists have signed a two-fight deal. A few big questions remain, including where and when the first fight will take place. And despite a two-fight
Mar 14, 2021 The WBA announced on Sunday they are temporarily suspending judge Carlos Sucre, pending an evaluation, after his outlier scorecard for Saturday’s junior bantamweight world title unification fight between Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. Sucre scored the fight 117-111 for Estrada, who won the fight by split decision. Jesse Reyes scored
6:30 AM ET The MAC West did its best to pack a full season’s worth of MACtion and tight finishes into an abbreviated half-season. Five of Ball State’s six regular-season games were decided by one score, and CMU, WMU and EMU each played four such games. BSU won four of its five close games and
3:42 AM BST Melbourne prop Pone Fa’amausili faced many challenges with unexpectedly being on the road last year for six months, including clothing his hulking frame. Standing 196cm and weighing 130kg, Fa’amausili was caught short when the Rebels’ dash interstate to beat border closures in mid-2020 turned into six months. As well as being part
7:32 PM ET Could a change in how offside calls are whistled help avoid injuries and dangerous plays? John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images Football has become a game that is now decided by the finest of margins since the introduction of VAR, so it is impossible to say whether Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper Rui Patricio would
12:25 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Don Nelson still can’t believe his luck. The Hall of Fame coach still remembers sitting at the 2009 NIT quarterfinals at St. Mary’s College watching a young Davidson guard named Stephen Curry move up and down the floor. While the rest of the world seemed to focus on Curry’s
Report The opener went past 600 runs for the season and had solid support from the lower order Victoria 7 for 219 (Harris 113*) v Queensland Marcus Harris made his second Sheffield Shield century of the season on another day severely impacted by rain against Queensland in Brisbane. Harris, who returned to the Australia Test
11:29 PM ET UFC 261 seems to be about giving people what they want. Welterweight champ Kamaru Usman wanted his next defense to be against Jorge Masvidal, and he got it. Masvidal wanted another crack at the title, and he got it. And fans wanted to return to a live UFC event, and they got