12:14 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving isn’t concerned after tweaking his right shoulder late in Boston’s 128-100 victory over the New York Knicks. Kyrie Irving scored 22 points before leaving the game in the final minutes nursing his right shoulder, Al Horford had 19 points and 12 rebounds, and
10:44 PM ET Floyd Mayweather will indeed return to the ring on New Year’s Eve in Japan, but it will be only an exhibition. Mayweather and Japanese kickboxing star Tenshin Nasukawa will meet in a three-round match under straight boxing rules at the 37,000-seat Saitama Prefecture Super Arena in Saitama, Japan — about a half-hour
9:49 PM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry exploded for a 99-yard touchdown run in the second quarter against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday night. Henry’s run tied Dallas Cowboys Hall
12:03 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — In his first game after being fined for publicly criticizing officiating, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert got ejected early in the first quarter. Gobert smacked a bottle off the scorer’s table in frustration after being called for his second foul with 9 minutes, 13 seconds remaining in the
9:37 PM ET Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa and Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray split four college football year-end awards Thursday, setting up a showdown for Saturday night when they contend for the Heisman Trophy. Tagovailoa received the Maxwell Award for player of the year while Murray was named the nation’s top quarterback with the Davey O’Brien Award at
7:33 PM ET NEW YORK — Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko was tired of talking about the surgically repaired labrum in his right shoulder, but the lightweight world champion never seems to tire of discussing his quest to unify world titles. Lomachenko has won world titles in three weight classes — featherweight, junior lightweight and lightweight
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5:28 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey on Thursday said UCF should look “inward” to address the strength of schedule issues that have held back the Knights in the College Football Playoff rankings. Central Florida (12-0) was ranked eighth in the final playoff rankings by the selection committee after
5:10 PM ET ESPN News Services Free-agent second baseman Jonathan Schoop, who slumped badly in 2018 after a career season in 2017, has reached a one-year deal with the Minnesota Twins on Thursday, according to a report. Terms were not released. The Athletic first reported the deal is for $7.5 million, plus incentives. The Twins
7:00 AM ET Jamie BraidwoodESPN Rocky Fielding has told ESPN he found out about his fight with world middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez while he was putting his one-month-old daughter to bed. WBA super middleweight champion Fielding faces Alvarez on Dec.15 at Madison Square Garden, in a fight that came out of the blue when it