8:05 AM ET Steve KimESPN An entertaining year for the sport of boxing just ended. There were plenty of unification bouts and an abundance of legitimate fight of the year candidates. And that momentum should carry into 2020. The first couple of months in 2020 look promising, with these top 10 fights standing out among
7:45 AM ET When I put together a “Fights I want to see” list going into 2019, the No. 1 matchup was Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson. Well, it didn’t happen, and — spoiler alert — Nurmagomedov vs. Ferguson is still the No. 1 fight I want to see. The good news is, as we
6:00 PM GMT Chris Silverwood has insisted England “will not be afraid” to take tough selection decisions if necessary. Silverwood, the England coach, will have to weigh up whether or not his side should pick a spinner for the second Test in Cape Town starting on January 3. If they do, it could leave him
10:12 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim NEW YORK — IT is minutes before midnight on Christmas, and David Michaud is standing in the middle of 42nd Street, taking pictures of the bustling neon cathedral that is Times Square. The “walk/don’t walk” sign is telling him he has another 12, 11, 10 seconds to remain planted there
9:04 PM ET As the year and the decade come to a close, the UFC is in the midst of perhaps its most successful run ever. And that momentum looks like it will continue in 2020 with Conor McGregor vs. Donald Cerrone headlining UFC 246 on Jan. 18 in Las Vegas. UFC president Dana White
8:51 AM ET Associated Press A day after Andy Murray put his Grand Slam comeback on hold, Japan’s Kei Nishikori has become the latest high-profile player to withdraw from next month’s Australian Open, citing a right elbow injury. Tennis Australia issued a statement Monday saying Nishikori had withdrawn from the season-opening major at Melbourne Park
Dec 30, 2019 Speaking at the final Formula One race of the last decade, FIA president Jean Todt said the existence of international motorsport faces two main threats in the future. One would be the fallout from a high-profile, fatal accident and the other would be the impact — perceived or otherwise — that racing
7:17 AM ET The Washington Redskins are expected to hire former Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera as their next head coach barring any unforeseen developments, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday. The news comes on the same day that the team parted ways with team president Bruce Allen. The Redskins hope the moves can
Play 01:09 Root refuses to blame illness for defeat in South Africa Spare a thought for holiday-makers catching a flight to Cape Town from Johannesburg on New Year’s Eve. For there is a fair chance some of them will be sharing a plane with an England squad so sickly that they should probably be led
2:42 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Anthony Davis said there’s a simple solution to keeping the Los Angeles Lakers atop the league standings: lockdown defense. “We just had to find ourselves again,” Davis said after the Lakers’ 108-95 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. “We were able to get back to what we do