7:24 AM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A fundraising campaign has been launched in an effort to raise enough money to renovate and reopen a museum at Muhammad Ali’s childhood home in Louisville. The nonprofit Muhammad Ali Childhood Home Museum is trying to raise $5.8 million that would be used to build a welcome
3:01 PM ET Bob Bennett was sitting ringside at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for an IBF super middleweight title bout between James DeGale and Caleb Truax. It was April 7, 2018. In the third round, a bad cut opened up just above DeGale’s right eye. In the ring, referee Robert
3:39 PM ET ESPN News Services The Boston Red Sox have hired Will Venable to be a bench coach on manager Alex Cora’s staff. Venable spent the past three seasons with the Chicago Cubs as a first- and third-base coach after a 12-year career as a major league outfielder, mostly with the San Diego Padres.
2:36 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR will have another new team in 2021 — bringing the total to three new ownership groups in the Cup Series — with the formation of Live Fast Motorsports. The team formally announced Friday is owned by drivers Matt Tifft and B.J. McLeod. McLeod will drive the
8:00 AM ET Bedlam. In college football, that word evokes thoughts of big plays, dramatic finishes and high stakes in one of the sport’s best rivalries: Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State. Saturday will mark the 115th meeting between the two teams (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC), a series that is lopsided in Oklahoma’s favor, historically, with the
1:17 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — Sean Payton, the New Orleans Saints coach who once brought you a surprise onside kick to start the second half of a Super Bowl, might have just made his most fascinating decision yet. Taysom Hill — one of the NFL’s most intriguing and polarizing playmakers — will make his
1:58 PM GMT Scotland’s game against Fiji at Murrayfield on Nov. 28 has been cancelled due to a large number of positive coronavirus tests in the Fiji camp, organisers announced on Friday. The news came on the same day Scotland coach Gregor Townsend announced his team to face France on Sunday and is Fiji’s third
5:24 AM ET There’s a sense of fragility in the air when considering Jose Mourinho’s relationship with Tottenham Hotspur, but on the first anniversary of his appointment in north London, their marriage of convenience is much more stable than many anticipated. The origin of the tension was this: Mourinho and Spurs chairman Daniel Levy appeared
11:23 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Novak Djokovic reached the semifinals at the ATP Finals and eliminated Alexander Zverev on Friday by beating the German 6-3, 7-6 (4), ensuring the top four players in the world advanced to the semifinals at the season-ending event for the first time since 2004. The top-ranked Djokovic set
1:06 PM ET A date has been finalized for the rescheduled vacant WBC title bout between Ryan Garcia vs. Luke Campbell and the two will fight on Saturday, Jan. 2, DAZN announced Friday. Garcia and Campbell were scheduled to fight on Dec. 5 in Los Angeles, but the fight was postponed after Campbell tested positive
Sourav Ganguly finished the two-match series with 131 runs at 43.66.© AFP Inzaman-ul-Haq made a revelation about the 1999 Test between India and Pakistan in Chennai, saying the dismissal of Sourav Ganguly, who was given out caught by wicket-keeper Moin Khan, in India’s second innings was “a doubtful one.” Inzaman was speaking on India off-spinner
12:29 PM GMT France coach Fabien Galthie made eight changes to the team who beat Ireland in the Six Nations when he named his starting lineup for the Autumn Nations Cup clash against Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday. Matthieu Jalibert comes in at fly-half in the absence of the injured Romain Ntamack, alongside scrum-half Antoine
“An MNC cannot have two CEOs”, said former India skipper Kapil Dev on Friday, making his stance clear on the raging debate over whether the national cricket team should go for split captaincy. Ever since Rohit Sharma guided Mumbai Indians to a fifth IPL title, a debate on split captaincy has gathered momentum with several
9:00 AM GMT Premiership Rugby will be allowed to access texts, emails and bank statements of players and club officials to maintain the integrity of a salary cap system and avoid another scandal that led to former champions Saracens being relegated this year. Saracens, winners of four Premiership titles in the past six years, were
9:31 AM ET A former LSU women’s tennis player has accused her former coach of lying about her knowledge of a Tigers football player physically abusing her between May 2017 and August 2018, and accused the coach of “betraying” her during an investigation. The former player, Jade Lewis, 21, of Hilton Head, South Carolina, posted
7:30 AM ET It comes with the territory at 125 pounds. Not only is UFC flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo tasked with defending his title, but he also needs to draw attention to the weight class — something flyweights have generally struggled to do since the UFC added the division in 2012. Former champion Demetrious Johnson
7:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” For many of us, one of the first hints that are parents are not gods, not superheroes, not even particularly significant in a world of 7 billion, comes in the stands of
Star India Sports Head Sanjog Gupta is delighted with the success of the recently-concluded Indian Premier League (IPL) and said that it was the “biggest ever in terms of viewership, engagement and ad sales.” “It’s the biggest IPL the nation has seen and the response from fans and advertisers has been stupendous. The record-breaking opening