3:41 PM ET The United States debut of super middleweight world titlist Billy Joe Saunders will come against Marcelo Esteban Coceres. For weeks, Saunders has been ticketed to make his first 168-pound title defense on the undercard of the six-round novelty cruiserweight fight between YouTube stars KSI and Logan Paul on Nov. 9 (DAZN) at
7:57 AM ET Winger Josh Adams grabbed a hat-trick of tries as a battered and bruised Wales battled to a 29-17 bonus-point win over Fiji on Wednesday to book their place in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals. In a frenzied clash under the roof at Oita Stadium, Warren Gatland’s team lost talismanic flyhalf Dan Biggar
9:05 AM ET Steve KimESPN Former unified cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk makes his heavyweight debut against late replacement Chazz Witherspoon at Wintrust Arena in Chicago on Saturday. Usyk was scheduled to face Tyrone Spong, but Spong tested positive for banned substances in two urine samples and Witherspoon was selected as his replacement just a few
7:00 AM ET The overreactions to the first games in a new NHL season are always quite comical. When there’s a four-game losing streak in the middle of December, it’s a bump in the road. When it happens at the start of the season, it’s like watching a large boulder roll down a snowy hill
2:04 PM ET Associated Press MADRID — Andres Gimeno, the Spanish tennis player who was the oldest man to win the French Open in the professional era, has died. He was 82. The Spanish tennis federation says Gimeno died Wednesday after a long illness. Gimeno was 34 years and 301 days old when he won
8:00 AM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It didn’t seem to matter that quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and wideout DeVonta Smith had record-setting performances. Nor did it matter that Alabama improved to 5-0 and set itself up for a return to No. 1 in the rankings. The mood after the Crimson Tide beat Ole Miss two weeks
1:45 PM ET Tiger Woods‘ annual tournament to benefit his foundation will boast several players from the U.S. team he will captain a week later at the Presidents Cup and eight of the top 10-ranked players in the world. Woods is among the 16 players announced Wednesday to participate in the Hero World Challenge, which
1:20 PM ET COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Four days after an angst-filled win over a cellar-dwelling Arkansas team, Jimbo Fisher took his customary Wednesday night seat inside a local barbecue joint. The place — Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q — was packed, as scores of fans munched on brisket, ribs and cream corn while attentively
1:19 PM ET Nine-time Grammy Award winner Rihanna says she turned down an offer to perform at the Super Bowl in 2019 to show solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. Rihanna told Vogue in a story published Wednesday that she would have been an “enabler” if she had performed at Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta. “I couldn’t
2:16 PM ET In what is likely to have a bearing on the BCCI elections, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) has disqualified three key state associations – Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Maharashtra – for failing to comply with the board’s new constitution. These three states have been declared non-compliant and are barred from participating in