5:34 PM ET Steve KimESPN A junior welterweight battle between former title challenger Alex Saucedo and unbeaten Arnold Barboza Jr. has been finalized for Oct. 17, multiple sources told ESPN on Thursday. The fight is part of the undercard for the Vasiliy Lomachenko-Teofimo Lopez Jr. lightweight unification fight at the MGM Grand Conference Center in
4:06 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Toronto Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri, who has one year remaining on his contract, on Thursday said he has yet to enter discussions with team ownership about an extension. “No, I haven’t had discussions, and honestly, coming out of this, things are a little raw,” Ujiri said on
2:56 PM ET Adriana Garcia Former Barcelona coach Quique Setien announced on Thursday he is suing the club for failing to fulfill the terms of his contract after being dismissed last month. Barcelona sacked Setien after seven months in charge following the club’s humiliating 8-2 Champions League quarterfinal defeat to Bayern Munich on Aug. 18.
11:59 AM ET Associated Press LA ROCHE-SUR-FORON, France — Paris, and victory at the Tour de France, are almost within reach for Primoz Roglic. The Slovenian rider safely negotiated the last truly mountainous stage of this year’s race on Thursday, moving a big step closer to adding what would be his first Tour win to
2:13 PM ET MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Even though he had five birdies on his card, Tiger Woods could not find much positive about his start to the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. That’s probably because he was annoyed by the six bogeys and the double bogey on the final hole that accompanied the five birdies
7:29 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo England and West Indies Women plan to honour the Black Lives Matter movement when they begin their long-awaited T20I series next week. Heather Knight, the England captain, has been in contact with her West Indies counterpart, Stafanie Taylor, and the pair
2:32 PM ET ATP and WTA jointly announced on Friday that the 2020 Kremlin Cup tournaments in Moscow have been cancelled by a mandate from health officials in the Russian capital, where there has been a surge in coronavirus infections. However, the ATP’s St. Petersburg tournament – a more prestigious event scheduled to start in
8:20 AM ET Associated Press The Fed Cup is changing its name to honor tennis great Billie Jean King, the woman whose lifelong battle for equality and social justice laid the foundation for generations that followed. The Billie Jean King Cup will become the first major global team competition to be named after a woman,
1:48 PM BST Georgian police have arrested the vice president of the country’s rugby union, Merab Beselia, over the shooting of player Ramaz Kharazishvili, who was shot in the leg at the sport’s governing body’s offices in the capital Tbilisi on Wednesday. Kharazishvili, 32, the former captain of the Georgian national Sevens team, underwent surgery
12:33 PM ET The Arizona Coyotes named Bill Armstrong their new general manager on Thursday. Armstrong, 50, has been the St. Louis Blues‘ assistant GM/director of amateur scouting the past two seasons. He replaces John Chayka, who resigned as GM on the eve of the Stanley Cup playoffs, leading the team to say he “quit”