8:42 AM ET It has been more than seven years since Frankie Edgar held a UFC championship. He will look to end that dry spell Saturday, when he challenges featherweight king Max Holloway at UFC 240 in Edmonton, Alberta. Win or lose, Edgar (23-6-1) already owns one of the most distinguished careers in MMA history.
8:00 AM ET It has been slow going on the trade front so far, but the past few years have shown us activity increasingly happens in the final hours before the July 31 deadline hits at 4 p.m. ET. The fact that so many teams in the National League are still in the playoff race
The FC crew discusses the next step in Gareth Bale’s career and whether he will return to Tottenham or move somewhere else. This has been a strange summer in the transfer market. The Gareth Bale-Real Madrid saga has become increasingly nasty. Neymar‘s desired divorce from PSG isn’t going as he’d hoped. It felt like Barcelona
7:22 AM ET European champion Matteo Trentin won the 17th stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday, excelling in the hilly 200-kilometre ride from the Pont du Gard as tempers flared in the peloton. Team Ineos’ Luke Rowe and Lotto Jumbo-Visma’s Tony Martin were both kicked out of the race following an altercation just
11:01 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN By the end of the summer, this is what the typical St. Louis Blues player will have done: You hoist the Stanley Cup for the first time on home ice before walking through a car wash’s volume of champagne and beer in the dressing room, and then having an all-night
Hoffenheim’s business model has worked again. The modest German club have been experts of late in identifying and acquiring little-known Brazilian talent, developing it and selling it on at a huge profit. It worked with Luiz Gustavo, Brazil’s holding midfielder in the 2014 World Cup. It worked with Roberto Firmino, a virtual unknown transformed into
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s dominance continued versus Carlos Vela’s LAFC as his hat trick lifted LA Galaxy to a 3-2 win in El Trafico. LA Galaxy and U.S. youth international full-back Julian Araujo would consider a move to the Mexican national team if the right opportunity presented itself. The 17-year-old dual national right-back was part of the
1:49 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly two hours before the first pitch Wednesday night, New York Yankees infielders Gleyber Torres and Gio Urshela were sitting in front of their neighboring Target Field lockers, busting out in random, brief bursts of laughter. At the time, Urshela was holding a cardboard box, delivered to the ballpark from
3:41 PM ET Fifty-six runs, 84 balls, five boundaries. Fifty-eight runs, 94 balls, eight boundaries. Those two innings were both played by David Warner, six weeks apart, in vastly different circumstances. The first was his battling contribution against India in the World Cup match at The Oval, a source of much criticism that Warner was
11:23 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Throughout Kawhi Leonard’s free agency we heard and talked a lot about his desire for secrecy and discretion in his negotiations. The three teams involved mostly abided by those wishes, lest they risk losing the two-time NBA Finals MVP over a careless leak or slip up. But on the