7:29 PM ET Former major league slugger Alex Rodriguez and billionaire Marc Lore are finalizing a deal to purchase the Minnesota Timberwolves from majority owner Glen Taylor, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday. Taylor will continue to hold full control of the team for two years before Rodriguez and Lore take over in 2023.
2:39 PM ET In a brief interview this week, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones expressed optimism he will challenge Francis Ngannou for the UFC’s heavyweight title at some point, although he doesn’t know exactly when. Jones (26-1), who is the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter on the planet according to ESPN, vacated his 205-pound
2:29 PM ET Rory MacDonald had to wait a full year to make his PFL debut — and now he will do so against a late-notice opponent. MacDonald (21-6-1), who signed with PFL in late 2019 but didn’t compete in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, will face Curtis Millender (18-6) at PFL’s regular-season event
10:17 PM ET UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling will undergo neck surgery on Thursday in Los Angeles to address a medical issue he has dealt with for nearly 10 years. Sterling (20-3) won the UFC’s 135-pound bantamweight championship on March 6, when former champion Petr Yan was disqualified in the fourth round of their title
6:25 PM ET Fans tuning in Saturday to ABC were not watching a UFC replay, though they might as well have been. Kevin Holland fought for the second time in the last three weeks — and the result was almost exactly the same. Marvin Vettori took Holland down over and over en route to a
5:19 PM ET Texas A&M quarterback Kellen Mond is considered an intriguing Day 2 option for teams out of reach of the top quarterbacks in April’s draft. “There’s upside there,” said one longtime NFC scout. “If anything I would have liked to see him let loose a little more.” And teams are doing their research
5:36 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Veronika Kudermetova of Russia and Danka Kovinic of Montenegro will play for their first WTA title Sunday in the Volvo Car Open championship. The 15th seed, Kudermetova rolled past Spain’s Paula Badosa 6-3, 6-3, continuing a run at the year’s opening clay-court tournament where she hadn’t lost
4:53 PM ET Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 2-1 to leap their Clasico rivals into second place in the La Liga table, behind leaders Atletico Madrid. Karim Benzema and Toni Kroos gave Real two first-half goals, with Barca pulling one back in the 60th minute thanks to Oscar Mingueza. Real finished the waning minutes of the
4:15 PM ET Associated Press CAGLIARI, Sardinia (AP) – Lorenzo Sonego is one step away from becoming the first Italian for 15 years to capture an ATP tour clay-court title on home soil after beating second-seeded Taylor Fritz of the United States on Saturday to reach the final of the Sardegna Open. Third-seeded Sonego held
IPL 2021: Shardul Thakur gave away 53 runs in 3.4 overs against Delhi Capitals on Saturday.© BCCI/IPL Chennai Super Kings started their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 campaign with a seven wicket loss to Delhi Capitals at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. Despite putting up a total of 188/7 from their allotted 20
2:34 PM ET The 2021 NHL trade deadline is fast approaching, and all deals must be completed by 3 p.m. ET on Monday, April 12. We’ve gone through the deals we’d like to see, a team-by-team guide to the deadline, and a player-by-player look at the individuals that could be on a new team by
Britain’s Adam Yates finished fourth overall in the Itzulia Basque Country, as Primoz Roglic won brilliantly. Ineos Grenadiers’ Yates had a strong race but could not haul back the leaders, including Jumbo-Visma’s Roglic following his commanding break away. Other race favourite UAE-Team Emirates’ Tadej Pogacar was third overall after trying to chase down Roglic with
10:16 AM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi UFC middleweight Kevin Holland agrees — he blew it three weeks ago in Las Vegas. It was his first appearance in a UFC main event, and he lost nearly every
10:17 AM ET Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant is no longer driven by championships. After all, he has won two. Instead, he says it’s the desire to be at his best that fuels him. “I wasn’t expecting to be a happy human being from a title,” Durant told ESPN’s Rachel Nichols in an interview that
IPL 2021: Suresh Raina scored 54 off just 36 ball on his CSK comeback.© Twitter Suresh Raina, playing his first competitive match in over a year, stole all the limelight, scoring a brisk half-century for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) against Delhi Capital in Mumbai on Saturday. The left-handed batsman, who had pulled out of IPL last
7:00 AM ET Normalcy — sort of — has returned to baseball for the 2021 MLB season. There are still pandemic-related obstacles for the sport to navigate, but at least teams are scheduled to play 162 games and fans have returned to stadiums. The usual rhythm of the sport will take hold soon enough, and
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5:44 PM ET HOUSTON — Deshaun Watson‘s lawyer, Rusty Hardin, acknowledged during a Friday news conference that there were some “consensual encounters” between the Houston Texans quarterback and some of the 22 women who have filed lawsuits against him, but he said at no point did Watson engage in any acts that were not “mutually