Aug 15, 2020 William Weinbaum Celia Williamson told ESPN Saturday she has seen thousands of diplomas, but none quite like the one she picked up Friday on behalf of her late father, Carmen. “It represents generations coming together in one moment, people who have struggled even before my father and his family before him, it’s
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3:55 PM ET Steve KimESPN Reigning WBO bantamweight titlist John Riel Casimero will face Duke Micah on Sept. 26 at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut. Casimero had been scheduled to face unified WBA “super” and IBF champion Naoya Inoue on April 25 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas in a highly anticipated
Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel has vowed to come back stronger after his crash during Saturday’s Il Lombardia race. The 20-year-old suffered a fractured pelvis when he crashed on a descent, striking the wall of a bridge before somersaulting on to his back and over the edge. The Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider was flown home from Italy on
12:00 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The fallout from the Cleveland Indians‘ team meeting that saw pitchers Mike Clevinger and Zach Plesac sent home could have wide-ranging implications on both the Indians’ season as well as the financial
12:36 PM ET A high-action main event capped off UFC 252 and Stipe Miocic heads back to Ohio with the UFC heavyweight title and intentions on healing up. Daniel Cormier put up quite a fight and had the champ rocked at a few moments, but the former two-division champion exited the Octagon with a loss
French Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly says his home in Normandy was robbed and ransacked while he was racing in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix. The 24-year-old AlphaTauri driver posted a message on Instagram asking anyone with information to get in touch on social media. Gasly lost expensive engraved watches, racing helmets, clothes and jewellery in
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said it would be a “terrible atmosphere” to play a bilateral cricket series with India given the current tense relations between the two countries. Speaking on a Sky Sports documentary, former captain Khan, who is also the patron-in-chief of the country’s cricket board, said it will not be
11:38 AM BST Former England captain Dylan Hartley has criticised the manner in which rugby has treated his generation of players, saying the “money men” have relegated concern for individual welfare to the back seat over the years. Hartley, 34, retired last year after a persistent knee injury and is England’s most capped hooker of
7:00 AM ET ESPN.com Staff With a third of the 2020 MLB season already gone, it’s time to acknowledge that some of the bottom-tier teams that have had stunning turnarounds in the standings may well stick in the playoff picture the rest of the way. We knew the 60-game schedule was going to create some
8:00 AM ET Under a typical college football timeline, the season would be within arm’s reach right now. Games were originally scheduled to begin on Aug. 29’s Week 0, with Notre Dame vs. Navy in Dublin as the headliner. Under normal circumstances, we’d be excitedly pointing out, “That’s next week!” Instead, the coronavirus and its
6:57 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — Jim Herman rallied to win the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his third PGA Tour title and a spot in the FedEx Cup playoffs, shooting a 7-under 63 for a 1-stroke victory over Billy Horschel. Known for his friendship with President Donald Trump, Herman overcame a 4-stroke
8:57 AM ET ESPN News Services Wimbledon champion Simona Halep will skip the US Open, saying Monday she is putting her health first and prefers to stay in Europe amid the coronavirus pandemic. Halep, a former No. 1-ranked player who is currently No. 2, won the title in Prague on Sunday. “After weighing up all
8:11 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Angela Buxton, a British tennis player who was the doubles partner of Althea Gibson when the American became the first Black person to win a major title in 1956, has died. She was 85. The International Tennis Federation announced the death of Buxton on Monday, describing her as
7:00 AM ET Colorado Avalanche defenseman Ian Cole is a 10-year NHL veteran, two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and he already has one of the best beards in the 2020 NHL playoffs. He also was kind enough to spend some time on his off day in the bubble answering questions from fans,
8:51 AM ET In any conversation about the greatest Champions League manager ever, Pep Guardiola should be in it. But as the years go by and the failures mount up, the Manchester City coach is drifting further towards the margins and City’s latest Champions League embarrassment, which saw them lose 3-1 to outsiders Lyon in
6:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — When Kyler Murray returned home to Texas after his rookie season with the Arizona Cardinals, he took two weeks off to rest, recover and recuperate, then it was off to the daily grind of preparing for Year 2. Waiting for him was his long-time trainer, Stephen Baca. The two
6:48 AM ET SECONDS BEFORE ENTERING the Serbian gym, Mike D’Antoni casually mentioned to Steve Kerr that this stop on their European scouting trip was essentially pointless. It was the spring of 2004, just after Kerr joined the Phoenix Suns as a front-office consultant. D’Antoni was entering his first full season as head coach and
7:46 AM ET Even in a pandemic-plagued year, with the PGA Tour missing 13 weeks of action and having to reconfigure its schedule, the FedEx Cup playoffs are to begin Thursday — only a week later than originally scheduled — with a slight tweak in format but the same big-money purses and ultimate $15 million