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7:53 AM ET Mike Coppinger Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Unlike most other professional sports, trades do not happen in boxing. Boxing promoters sign fighters to their companies and promote their fights,

Jul 20, 2022 Jeff WagenheimESPN Chris Curtis dreamed about fighting inside the Octagon for over a decade as a professional mixed martial artist. Now that his UFC debut was happening, though, it was turning nightmarish. He was in a UFC 268 prelim last November in New York, and Curtis was getting beaten to the punch

2:03 PM ET Associated Press Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic were on the official US Open entry lists released Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean they’ll necessarily play in the tournament — and in Djokovic’s case, he can’t, as of now, because he isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19. The singles entry lists are a formality, and they

8:58 PM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — Charlotte Hornets restricted free agent Miles Bridges is facing three felony domestic violence charges after being accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two children last month, the Los Angeles County district attorney said Tuesday. District Attorney George Gascon said his office filed one

10:04 AM ET Before defensive end Carl Nassib announced he was gay in June 2021, he agonized over the decision, he says. Nassib, who is a free agent after being released by the Las Vegas Raiders earlier this year, told “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan in an interview that aired Tuesday that he “stared

Jul 17, 2022 Rugby Australia have released a statement on poor fan conduct at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday following the Wallabies 21-17 series loss to England. In several videos shared on social media on Sunday, one man was seen scaling the SCG stands to sit and urinate on the roof before he was

6:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Only in times of chaos in college sports does the wonky jargon grant of rights intersect with mainstream conversation. Perhaps no factor looms larger for the future of the entire enterprise of college athletics than the consequences that come with signing — or the potential need to sign — a

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Golf’s major season ended with Australia’s Cameron Smith winning the 150th edition of The Open and lifting the Claret Jug at St. Andrews on Sunday. Smith became the sixth straight player in his 20s to win a major and the second consecutive first-timer. Matt Fitzpatrick picked up his first at the

12:00 PM ET It’s 2022 MLB draft day in Los Angeles and the Baltimore Orioles have made their selection. With the No. 1 overall pick, the Orioles took Jackson Holliday, top prospect and son of former major leaguer Matt Holliday. The Arizona Diamondbacks followed up with another son for a former major leaguer (Andruw), selecting

11:45 PM ET Associated Press EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Beach Glass won the $600,000 Meadowlands Pace on Saturday night, capturing the only race to elude his Hall of Fame sire. Somebeachsomewhere won 20 of 21 career starts, suffering his lone defeat in the 2008 Meadowlands Pace. He died in 2018, and Beach Glass was a

7:56 PM ET The North Carolina home of NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is up for sale, and the whopping 9,986-square-foot residence is listed for $15,995,000. The listing real estate agents, Heather Gibbs and Josh Tucker, would not confirm it was Stenhouse’s home. According to the Multiple Listing Service, a database used by Realtors, the

9:33 AM ET Bayern Munich president Herbert Hainer has said the club have a verbal agreement with Barcelona for the transfer of striker Robert Lewandowski. Lewandowski, 33, has twice won the Golden Boot for Europe’s leading goal scorer and finished as runner-up for the 2021 Ballon d’Or. He is set to join Barca for a

Jul 13, 2022 Four big series’, four big deciders. Amid all the drama, debate and exploding outrage about the state of the game — or at least the way in which it is being officiated right now — never before in the professional era have we seen a slate of July Test series so keenly

9:05 AM ET The UFC is amid a busy summer schedule, coming off International Fight Week two weeks ago. Next up is UFC on ABC this weekend (Saturday, main card on ABC/ESPN+ at 2 p.m. ET, prelims on ESPN/ESPN+ at 11 a.m.), with a big-time main event between Brian Ortega and Yair Rodriguez. From there,

6:02 AM ET ESPN staff The 2022 NHL offseason is in full swing, as the draft is now in the rearview mirror and teams look to mold their rosters via trades and re-signings. While the start of free agency is traditionally on July 1, it will begin this year on July 13 because of the

9:35 AM ET For months, even before he returned to competitive golf after his serious car accident in February 2021, Tiger Woods said he would be playing The Open at St. Andrews. “Quite often,” Justin Thomas said earlier this week when asked whether Woods had talked to him about being here for the 150th Open.

5:48 PM ET After shutting down inquiries about All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell, rival teams say the Utah Jazz are now showing a willingness to listen on possible trade scenarios, sources tell ESPN on Tuesday. The asking price appears to be steep, but in the wake of Utah’s recent Rudy Gobert blockbuster deal to Minnesota, the

7:37 AM ET Mikaela Mayer Ryan Garcia faces perhaps his most difficult challenge when he faces Javier Fortuna at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Saturday night (DAZN, 8 p.m. ET). For Garcia (22-0, 18 KO), of Victorville, California, and Fortuna (37-3-1, 26 KO), from the Dominican Republic, this 12-rounder is a rescheduling of a

LAS VEGAS — On the drive home from an overnight shift at Paris Casino, Pedja Komazec came upon a crash scene. To his right, a burned husk of metal rested in the middle of the road. He couldn’t tell whether it was a car or an SUV; its features had melted into anonymity. On the

6:00 AM ET It’s one thing to knock Ohio State from its perch atop the conference. It’s another thing entirely to keep the Buckeyes pinned down. That’s become doubly true in the 2000s. They slipped at the end of the John Cooper era but went straight from 7-5 to 14-0 under Jim Tressel in 2002