5:58 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Milwaukee Bucks All-Star swingman Khris Middleton is expected to miss the next three to four weeks with a left thigh contusion after taking a knee to it, the team announced. Middleton was injured during Sunday’s victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder, in which Middleton finished with 10 points for the
5:38 PM GMT Springboks captain Siya Kolisi has thanked South Africans from all walks of life for coming out in their hundreds of thousands to congratulate the team on winning the Rugby World Cup in the last week. The Springboks arrived home from Japan on Tuesday, and they have since visited Pretoria, Johannesburg, Soweto, Durban,
5:11 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — The NHL suspended Columbus forward Nick Foligno for three games for a hit that leveled Colorado Avalanche forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare. The Department of Player Safety announced the penalty for the Blue Jackets’ captain on Monday. Foligno dropped Bellemare with the open-ice hit with his elbow to Bellemare’s
4:50 PM ET UFC heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic is not that intrigued by a third fight with Daniel Cormier, who said that’s the one fight he wants before he retires. Miocic and Cormier split their first two fights with Miocic scoring a fourth-round KO on Aug. 17. Miocic said eye pokes and punches in that
8:38 AM ET As Phil Mickelson upped his Twitter game, his golf game fell. As the pounds came off, the strokes piled up. And as last week transpired, not only did Lefty find himself out of the top 50 in the world for the first time in 26 years, he was also without a spot
3:28 PM ET Don Cherry, the iconic Canadian hockey commentator, has been fired by Sportsnet for his on-air remarks on Saturday that alleged that the country’s immigrants don’t properly honor fallen soldiers. Cherry, 85, used his “Coach’s Corner” segment on “Hockey Night In Canada” to criticize individuals who didn’t wear poppy pins leading up the
12:32 AM ET The most profound thing Nick Diaz ever said to me just so happened to be on the darkest day of his MMA career. On Sept. 14, 2015, the Nevada State Athletic Commission suspended Diaz for five years after he tested positive for marijuana metabolites following his decision loss to Anderson Silva at
2:30 PM ET Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes have signed general manager John Chayka to a long-term contract extension. Terms of the deal announced Monday were not disclosed. Chayka has built the Coyotes into playoff contenders since becoming the youngest general manager in North American major sports history at 26 in 2017.
Nov 11, 2019 Nick Diaz‘s long-awaited return to fighting could come in early 2020. Diaz and his manager told ESPN he is finally open to returning to the UFC Octagon. And he has set his sights on Jorge Masvidal, the man who just beat Diaz’s younger brother, Nate. Masvidal is coming off a third-round TKO
12:04 PM ET World junior lightweight titleholder Jamel Herring, lightweight titlist Devin Haney and super middleweight beltholder Billy Joe Saunders all retained their belts in their first title defenses on Saturday night. Herring was in the best of the three fights, Haney won in the most dominant fashion and Saunders struggled before a late knockout