Oct 18, 2023, 04:51 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Joshua Buatsi’s clash against fellow unbeaten light heavyweight contender Dan Azeez was postponed Tuesday after it was announced Azeez suffered a back injury. Azeez sustained the injury in his final training session and UK-based promoter BOXXER is now working to reschedule the fight that was due
Open Extended Reactions How VAR could have changed football’s future Illustration by T.M. Detwiler It’s six years since the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) arrived in soccer. Today it is, for better or for worse, fully woven into the fabric of the game around the world. Before 2017, football was so much simpler. When a referee made
Jesse Rogers, ESPN Staff WriterOct 18, 2023, 01:55 AM ET Close Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions PHILADELPHIA — For 2½ rounds in the 2023 MLB playoffs, the Philadelphia Phillies‘ offense has been an unstoppable machine, scoring 46 runs in eight games. But that wasn’t always
ESPN News Services Oct 18, 2023, 01:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAN JOSE, Calif. — Carolina Hurricanes center Sebastian Aho missed his club’s 6-3 win over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night with an upper-body injury. Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour told reporters after the win that Aho “did something at the end of
Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterOct 18, 2023, 12:36 AM ET Close Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Open Extended Reactions After two more than two years, Giovanni Reyna‘s goalless drought with the United States is over. The 20-year-old attacking midfielder bagged his first-ever international brace as the U.S. overwhelmed Ghana,
Oct 17, 2023, 06:38 PM ET Kevin Porter Jr.’s ex-girlfriend said the former Houston Rockets guard “didn’t hit me” during an alleged fight at a New York City hotel last month that led to his arrest. “He never balled his fists up and hit me,” Kysre Gondrezick, a former WNBA player, told the New York
Michael Rothstein, ESPN Staff WriterOct 17, 2023, 04:18 PM ET Close Michael Rothstein is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Rothstein covers the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow him via Twitter @MikeRothstein. Open Extended Reactions Ebanie Bridges is heading back into the ring for the second defense of her IBF bantamweight title. Bridges will
David Schoenfield, ESPN Senior WriterOct 17, 2023, 05:38 PM ET Close Covers MLB for ESPN.com Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995 Open Extended Reactions PHILADELPHIA — The Arizona Diamondbacks announced rookie right-hander Brandon Pfaadt will start Game 3 of the NLCS when the series returns to Phoenix on Thursday. Pfaadt
Harry Kane scored a brace and Marcus Rashford joined him on the scoresheet as England came from behind to beat holders Italy 3-1 and march into the Euro 2024 finals in a Group C qualifier at Wembley on Tuesday. The visitors stunned the home crowd when Gianluca Scamacca swept in a cross from Giovanni di
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterOct 17, 2023, 03:59 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) suspended UFC women’s bantamweight contender Mayra Bueno Silva and two other UFC fighters Tuesday for positive drug tests. Bueno Silva was suspended for 4½ months and her July win over Holly Holm was overturned to a
Open Extended Reactions It’s time for our 12th annual NBA League Pass Rankings — a tradition that started at a now-defunct website mostly because my old boss enjoyed making fun of the early-2010s Washington Wizards. These are NOT power rankings! They are watchability ratings derived from a secret algorithm Bill Simmons found scrawled on beer-soaked
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterOct 17, 2023, 03:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Alexander Volkanovski was more than 25 pounds over the contract weight the day before he accepted to fight in the UFC main event this weekend. Volkanovski, the UFC featherweight champion, will fight Islam Makhachev for the lightweight title in a rematch at
Oct 17, 2023, 03:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired defenseman Jack Rathbone and forward Karel Plasek from the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday in a trade for defenseman Mark Friedman and forward Ty Glover. “I would like to thank Jack for all the time he spent with our organization and always pushing
NFL Nation, ESPNOct 17, 2023, 06:50 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Welcome to Week 7 of the 2023 NFL season. There are now zero undefeated teams in the league after the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles suffered losses this weekend to the Cleveland Browns and New York Jets, respectively. Were those losses enough
Mike Coppinger, ESPNOct 17, 2023, 12:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions For 37 years, Showtime Championship Boxing has televised some of the biggest fights in the sport, but the network will exit boxing programming at the end of 2023, Showtime’s parent company Paramount Global announced in a statement Tuesday. “As we evolve our strategy to
D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Oct 17, 2023, 09:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions It hasn’t been the best season for Hubert Hurkacz. Entering the Shanghai Open, Hurkacz, 26, had reached just one final — winning the 250-level Open 13 in France in February — and failed to advance past the fourth round at any major. While
Open Extended Reactions There has never been a better time to be a hockey fan, with legendary players such as Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin still playing at a high level, in-their-prime superstars like Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews generating highlight-reel fodder on a nightly basis, and a rising crop of tantalizing youngsters such as
Stephen Holder, ESPNOct 16, 2023, 08:49 PM ET Close Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national