6:51 PM ET Kamaru Usman was in the corner for Francis Ngannou when Ngannou won the UFC heavyweight title last month. Now, Ngannou will return the favor for his fellow champion friend. Ngannou will be a cornerman for Usman’s welterweight title defense against Jorge Masvidal in the main event of UFC 261 on April 24
MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United have had no issue reaching semifinals under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer since he took the manager’s job in December of 2018; it’s what comes after that’s been the problem. They are through to a fifth semifinal of Solskjaer’s reign after a 2-0 win over Granada at Old Trafford on Thursday night,
7:00 AM ET FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — David Beckham stepped out of a Cadillac SUV and into the dust of a construction site. It was December 2019. In front of him was the shell of a new 18,000-seat stadium in deepest Broward County, where Inter Miami would play its first two seasons before moving, if
2:58 PM ET Wide receiver Xavier Worthy, the No. 61 ranked prospect in the 2021 class, announced Thursday he has asked for a release from his national letter of intent he signed with Michigan in December. Worthy is a 6-foot-1, 165-pound receiver from Central East High School in Fresno, California, and was the second-highest ranked
IPL 2021: Jaydev Unadkat claimed three wickets against Delhi Capitals.© Twitter Rajasthan Royals (RR), after edging Delhi Capitals (DC) by three wickets in their second league match, registered their first two points of the campaign and climbed to the fifth spot on the IPL 2021 Points Table. Delhi Capitals, who began the match as a
10:14 AM ET Associated Press MONACO — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic lost 6-4, 7-5 to Dan Evans on Thursday in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters for his first defeat of the year. The Australian Open champion was 10-0 coming into the match but faced pressure from the outset as he trailed 3-0 to
11:59 AM ET Only a few weeks after signing with the Brooklyn Nets, seven-time NBA All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge announced his retirement on social media. 1 Related “My last game I played while dealing with an irregular heartbeat,” Aldridge wrote. “Later on that night, my rhythm got even worse which really worried me even more. The
Jasprit Bumrah and Sanjana Ganesan got married on March 15.© Instagram Jasprit Bumrah and TV presenter Sanjana Ganesan completed one month of their married life on Thursday but due to their professional commitments, the couple couldn’t be together to celebrate the occasion. However, that didn’t keep them from expressing their love for each other. Sanjana,
11:28 AM ET Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Aldon Smith has agreed to a one-year deal with the Seattle Seahawks, a source told ESPN on Thursday. After serving an indefinite suspension from 2016 to 2019 for multiple off-field incidents and violations of the league’s substance-abuse policy, Smith joined the Cowboys in 2020 on a one-year
11:51 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — The WTA and ATP rankings of June 14 will be used to determine which tennis players earn direct entry into the Tokyo Olympics for singles and doubles, a delay of a week to match the change in dates for the French Open. The ITF announced Thursday that its
6:00 AM ET It is universal. It is unique. It is stacked, adjusted and set. It is mocked, remocked and mocked again. But unless you are one of the cooks in the proverbial football kitchen, you haven’t seen it. It is the stew that everyone in the NFL makes and whose recipe is hidden from
6:22 PM ET Pete Rose’s baseball predictions are for sale for $89 a month. Rose announced Wednesday that he was joining Upicktrade, a pick-selling website based in Mexico that recently made headlines in the U.S. with a short-lived partnership with the Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL. Rose will be making daily predictions about baseball
Lewis Hamilton says his battle with Max Verstappen for this year’s drivers’ title does not yet live up to his rivalry with Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton said he was “excited” by the challenge posed by Red Bull but that 2017 and 2018 against Vettel at Ferrari were the favourite years of his career. “Racing with Max,
11:20 AM BST Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter has said the British & Irish Lions coaching staff, who are led by Warren Gatland, are being “disingenuous” as a row over the release of Premiership players for the South Africa tour continues. The Lions want players for a two-week training camp at the end
7:00 AM ET We are now two weeks into the 2021 MLB season and one thing is already becoming very clear: It’s the Los Angeles Dodgers and then everyone else so far. L.A. is once again a unanimous No. 1 in our Week 2 MLB Power Rankings — but then things start to get interesting
3:49 AM ET Manchester City could win a historic quadruple this season, with Pep Guardiola’s team still in contention in the Champions League, Premier League, Carabao Cup and FA Cup, in which they face Chelsea in Saturday’s semifinal at Wembley (stream live on ESPN+ in the U.S.). But despite their incredible performances this year, City
7:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN Two months ago, this year’s race for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award looked as competitive as any in recent memory. But injuries have laid waste to the deep field of contenders, leaving Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic clearly standing above the rest of the field. Jokic, who has not
9:00 AM ET Sigh, the 2021 NHL trade deadline. We all sorta knew it was going to be a bust, what with the flat cap and the loss of revenue and the fact that teams didn’t want to overreact to anything happening — good or bad — in this janky, truncated season. We were all