Oct 22, 2019 Ben Askren has never been afraid to speak his mind. He stormed into the UFC last year after a historic trade and exchanged verbal shots with just about everyone, from Conor McGregor to Colby Covington to Dana White. Askren makes his third Octagon appearance Saturday against Demian Maia in the main event
7:43 AM BST Scott Barrett has been handed a surprise start at blindside flanker for New Zealand in their Rugby World Cup semifinal against England on Saturday, with Ardie Savea shifting to the openside of the scrum. Sam Cane, who had operated in a twin-openside combination with Savea since the All Blacks’ match against Australia
5:50 AM ET Jordan Spieth has said that he believes hemp oils and creams can help professional golfers with their aches and pains but is concerned that lack of regulation of the products could lead to a player failing a drug test. Spieth and Rory McIlroy, both recent world No. 1 players, said they are
3:42 AM ET Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea — Minjee Lee overcame a series of changing weather conditions at the Buick Ladies Championship to take a one-stroke lead with a bogey-free 6-under 66 after the first round of the LPGA tournament. “Sometime we had sunshine, wind, rain … we had a little bit of everything
3:26 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” HOUSTON — The Houston Astros did something Wednesday night that for any other team would have registered as benign. Juan Soto, the 20-year-old wunderkind who hits cleanup for the Washington Nationals, was
8:08 AM GMT Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan‘s aggressive attitude during the Wednesday meeting between the board officials and the striking cricketers, especially his takedown of allrounder Mehidy Hasan, apparently threw the players off to start with, one of them even saying that the incident “rattled” them. One of the puzzling sidelights of the
1:22 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers spent the offseason building a team focused on a very specific identity: being big and physical and imposing their will on their opponents at both ends of the court. And, if Philadelphia’s season-opening 107-93 victory over the Boston Celtics at Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday
9:55 PM ET The 57th annual WBC convention is taking place this week at the Grand Oasis in Cancun, Mexico, and on Wednesday the most important element of the gathering took place as the sanctioning organization determined the plan for each of its world titleholders and ratified its mandatory orders. The biggest news came in
9:33 PM BST Rugby Australia chief executive Raelene Castle and Wallabies coach Michael Cheika got in a public spat at a function at the Australian embassy in Tokyo during the World Cup. Former Wallaby Morgan Turinui intervened to stop an escalating argument between Cheika and Castle in front of guests at the cocktail function, according
Oct 22, 2019 The lede I’m always curious to see how a fighter responds after suffering a first loss. I’m especially curious when that first loss is via knockout. And that’s where we find Ben Askren this weekend when he meets Demian Maia in Singapore. The good news for Askren is that Maia isn’t known