8:51 AM ET The transfer portal has dominated college football’s offseason, enchanting and infuriating fans along the way. On this we can agree: The portal, like realignment and satellite camps before it, successfully filled the void between the national title game and the start of preseason camps. In a sport lacking a transactional period outside
Jun 27, 2019 It’s the hottest ticket in town. The only problem is you can’t buy one yet. Trans-Tasman sports fans are eagerly awaiting the official announcement for the UFC middleweight title fight between Robert Whittaker and Israel Adesanya later this year, which ESPN understands is all but certain to take place in Melbourne in
11:26 PM ET LAS VEGAS — For the first time in three seasons, a Dana White’s Contender Series show saw all five fights go the distance Tuesday night at the UFC Apex center. Nevertheless, the promotion president still awarded contracts to two fighters. One of them was welterweight Miguel Baeza (7-0), who earned a unanimous
10:48 AM ET An important piece of mixed martial arts history took place on Sept. 30, 2010 — in Concho, Oklahoma, of all places. On that date, Valentina Shevchenko fought Liz Carmouche. Shevchenko is now UFC flyweight champion and arguably the best female fighter in the world, and Carmouche is a ranked UFC veteran who
8:50 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mitchell Starc‘s day started with a sledge over breakfast and finished with him having notched another entry in his World Cup hall of fame with a delivery for the ages to castle Ben Stokes. Hours before Starc speared the swinging yorker under Stokes’ bat, to remove England’s last hope of
6:55 PM ET Once free agency starts on Sunday, the Rockets are planning to recruit Jimmy Butler to push the Philadelphia 76ers for a sign-and-trade deal that would allow the All-Star forward to join James Harden and Chris Paul in Houston, league sources tell ESPN. The Rockets don’t have the salary-cap space to sign Butler,
5:51 PM ET The NHL released the 2019-20 schedule Tuesday, revealing that the Stanley Cup-winning St. Louis Blues will raise their banner Oct. 2 when they host the ’18 champion Washington Capitals. A Stanley Cup Final rematch takes place Oct. 26 when the Boston Bruins host St. Louis. The teams meet one more time, in
5:21 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Jon Jones will be officially licensed to compete at UFC 239 on Wednesday by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC), commission executive director Bob Bennett told ESPN. Jones, who has been in an ongoing fight to clear his name of doping questions, will defend the UFC light heavyweight title against
5:10 PM ET Associated Press CHASKA, Minn. — The LPGA Tour will have a new tournament in Florida at the start of next year, and likely another one in the late spring. The Asian swing of limited-field events at the start of the year is adding a tournament with a full field and a cut.
5:31 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2019 was as weird as was expected in a year without a slam-dunk candidate outside of Hayley Wickenheiser. Defenseman Sergei Zubov got in after a seven-year wait. Center Guy Carbonneau got in after 16 years. Czech hockey legend Vaclav Nedomansky was elected after