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1:22 AM ET Brett Okamoto Close Brett Okamoto ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi UFC 285 delivered. From the dominant return of Jon Jones to the shocking upset victory for Alexa Grasso, the fight night in Las Vegas was electric Saturday. The

Mar 4, 2023 Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Tim Yakteen got the best of his former boss, Bob Baffert, with Practical Move’s 2½-length victory in the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday. At Florida’s Gulfstream, Forte easily won the $400,000 Fountain of Youth as the 1-2 favorite in his 3-year-old debut. The

12:54 PM ET Associated Press Daniil Medvedev ended Novak Djokovic‘s 20-match winning streak by beating the world’s top-ranked player 6-4, 6-4 on Friday to reach the final at the Dubai Championships. Third-seeded Medvedev will face defending champion Andrey Rublev in an all-Russian final that could have political overtones after Rublev reiterated his call for peace.

2:07 PM ET Atlanta Hawks principal owner Tony Ressler told ESPN that his franchise has underachieved in relation to its roster talent and that the organization’s moves to hire Quin Snyder as coach and elevate Landry Fields to oversee basketball operations will translate into more long-term success. In an interview Friday, Ressler insisted he isn’t

7:00 AM ET NFL team decision-makers are digging into 2023 draft preparations as combine workouts kick off in Indianapolis Thursday. Of course, everything will come back to the game tape, but prepare yourself for a few “wow” workouts to really get people talking this week, even if it’s just one part of the evaluation. Every

7:00 AM ET Andrea Adelson Close Andrea Adelson ESPN Senior Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. David Hale Close David Hale ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Florida State athletic director Michael Alford knew there’d be controversy when he

8:15 PM ET ESPN staff The NHL trade deadline is just two days away. And big deals are happening, with the Toronto Maple Leafs acquiring center Ryan O’Reilly, the New York Islanders trading for Bo Horvat, the New York Rangers bringing in Vladimir Tarasenko and Patrick Kane, and the New Jersey Devils landing Timo Meier.

7:00 AM ET Now that we’ve covered the top prospects across baseball for 2023, there’s one question you are probably asking — when will we get to see them in the big leagues? Because of a new rule in the collective bargaining agreement known as the Prospect Promotion Incentive, clubs have even more reason to

Mar 1, 2023 Chris ConnellyReporter Close Reporter for ESPN and ABC Stories appear on Outside the Lines and E:60, as well as College GameDay and SportsCenter, Has won three Sports Emmys and six Edward R. Murrow Awards, as well as a Prism, a Gracie, and a National Headliner Award. MICHAEL B. JORDAN and Jonathan Majors

Mar 1, 2023 While the LIV Golf League will take a three-week break from its opening 54-hole event in Mexico, the PGA Tour will be hitting its pre-Masters stride over the next month. Editor’s Picks 2 Related There will be three designated tournaments in the next four weeks. Up first is the Arnold Palmer Invitational

Feb 28, 2023 New Zealand Rugby will make a decision on the next All Blacks coach in the next “four to six weeks”, rejecting Ian Foster’s wishes that the process instead be carried out after this year’s World Cup in France. NZR chairperson Dame Patsy Reddy made the announcement on Wednesday morning, after weeks of

3:37 PM ET Associated Press Kurt Busch still has not yet been cleared by doctors as his career remains prematurely curtailed because of lingering effects from a concussion suffered in a wreck during qualifying last summer at Pocono Raceway. Busch, 44, instead is now a de facto consultant for his old 23XI Racing team and

3:21 PM ET Ryan Rosenblatt MLS is back! And not in the “we really named a tournament this” way. Just in the “first weekend of the season, everyone is really excited and every team is still dreaming of glory” way. With the start of every season comes the dreaded question for the all-important power rankings:

11:52 AM GMT The third round of the Six Nations wasn’t short of storylines but the headlines see Ireland still on for the Grand Slam after their 34-20 win in Rome against an ever-improving Italy side. England dispatched Wales 20-10 in Cardiff after a turbulent week for Warren Gatland’s side and on Sunday, France and

Feb 25, 2023 Jeff Wagenheim Yaroslav Amosov had not competed inside the Bellator MMA cage since the summer of 2021. He had been busy with a more consequential fight. Amosov, the welterweight champion from Ukraine who stepped away from MMA over a year ago to help defend his country against the Russian invasion, returned on

1:43 PM ET YouTube sensation-turned-boxer Jake Paul takes on his toughest opponent to date when he faces Tommy Fury at Diriyah Arena in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday (ESPN+ PPV, 2 p.m. ET). Paul and Fury originally were scheduled to fight in December 2021, but a rib injury forced Fury out of the bout. Then

Feb 25, 2023 Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Panthalassa led all the way to win the $20 million Saudi Cup by three-quarters of a length on Saturday night, relegating trainer Bob Baffert’s horse, Country Grammer, to second place for the second straight year. Japan nearly swept the first four places until Country Grammer rallied

2:19 AM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — Malik Monk scored a career-high 45 points, De’Aaron Fox had the go-ahead basket and finished with 42 and the Sacramento Kings beat the LA Clippers 176-175 in double overtime in the second-highest scoring game in NBA history on Friday. Detroit beat Denver 186-184 in triple overtime

7:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — In the twilight of the Denver Broncos‘ final Sunday of the 2022 season, quarterback Russell Wilson stood in front of the media contingent trying to make sense of his worst season as a pro. What happened to the nine-time Pro Bowler who had led the Seattle Seahawks to a

Feb 24, 2023 IT WAS ALMOST a year ago that author Alan Shipnuck published Phil Mickelson’s controversial comments about the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian monarchy’s history of human rights abuses and alleged involvement in the death of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi. Mickelson, who was allegedly recruiting players to LIV Golf, told Shipnuck