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8:58 AM ET It’s time. The Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr., eight-round exhibition will take place on Saturday at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Tyson, 54, hasn’t fought since 2005, while Jones, 51, hasn’t won a significant fight since he defeated Antonio Tarver in November 2003. He did beat Felix Trinidad in 2008, but

7:44 AM ET UFC women’s flyweight champ Valentina Shevchenko once again showed her brilliance in a unanimous-decision win over Jennifer Maia at UFC 255 on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Things were a little dicey for Shevchenko through two rounds. She actually — gasp — lost the second round. But then Shevchenko used her precision

7:17 PM ET LONDON — Daniil Medvedev winning the season-ending ATP Finals over Dominic Thiem on Sunday was a fitting end to tennis’ year in which very little went to script and the unexpected seemed to occur on a tournament-by-tournament basis. While Thiem, who had already won his first Grand Slam at the US Open

1:07 PM ET Another celebrity golf match is set this week, though for the first time in this series it will be without Tiger Woods. Worried it will lack drama? Insert Charles Barkley, whose golf swing is, uh, interesting. (That’s being nice.) On Friday, he will team up with Phil Mickelson against three-time NBA champion

2:44 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Dominic Thiem thought winning his first Grand Slam title at the US Open would make him calmer in the tensest moments of the biggest matches. He realized in his ATP Finals showdown with No. 1 Novak Djokovic how wrong that notion was. Still, after frittering away four match

1:38 PM ET Free agent Gordon Hayward is signing a four-year, $120 million deal with the Charlotte Hornets, agent Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday. Hayward became a free agent Thursday after declining his $34.2 million player option with the Boston Celtics for next season. He battled injury throughout his

7:00 AM ET When the New England Patriots celebrated their sixth Super Bowl with a ring ceremony in June 2019, coach Bill Belichick pointed to a trip to Fenway Park a year earlier that helped them put their Super Bowl LII loss behind them. The trip, organized by Patriots development director Jack Easterby, was designed

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

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

12:09 PM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers will begin defense of their World Series championship on the road against the Colorado Rockies as part of an Opening Day quadruple-header to be broadcast on ESPN on Thursday, April 1, 2021. In all, ESPN will cover 11 season-opening games, involving 19 different teams, over the first week

10:45 AM ET The National Hockey League is not exactly known for its ingenuity. Its most successful invention in the past 15 years was “a hockey game, but outside.” They moved from 5-on-5 overtime to 4-on-4 overtime, added a shootout, realized the shootout was terrible, and the solution was 3-on-3 hockey. Again, not exactly reinventing

9:08 PM ET Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. — Golden Gate Fields has suspended live horse racing through the end of November because of the surging coronavirus. The San Francisco Bay area track last Friday announced a week-long temporary closure to address a COVID-19 outbreak. Track officials say Golden Gate’s facilities have undergone thorough cleaning and

6:13 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Churchill Downs says president Kevin Flanery will retire at the end of this year after 11 years in charge of the home of the Kentucky Derby. Flanery began as Churchill Downs Incorporated’s vice president of national public affairs in December 2005 before becoming the historic track’s 13th

10:32 AM ET The Grand Place was packed, a sea of red shirts. The Belgium squad waved down from the balcony of Brussels’ City Hall, celebrating their third-place finish in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It felt like the entire country (population: 11 million) was packed into the square. “It’s a difficult environment, sometimes, but

10:39 PM GMT ESPN staff All Blacks captain Sam Cane has hit out at some of his team’s fans following the shock loss to Argentina last Saturday, saying some supporters have little idea of what they’re talking about. The fallout from the three-time world champions’ 25-15 defeat in Sydney has shown no signs of slowing

Nov 2, 2020 Whether she knew it or not, Chelsea Hackett seemed destined for a UFC career from an early age. Combat sports filled her childhood and paved the way for a shot at the big time, which has come in the form of an opportunity on Dana White’s Contender Series. The Gold Coast-raised 21-year-old