Auger-Aliassime bumps slump to beat qualifier at Barcelona Open
Alycia Baumgardner’s first defense of her WBC, IBF and WBO titles will come versus Elhem Mekhaled as the co-feature on the Amanda Serrano-Erika Cruz card on Feb. 4 in New York City, a source confirmed…
Emanuel Navarrete and Liam Wilson have agreed to a deal for a WBO junior lightweight title fight on Feb. 3 in Glendale, Arizona, a source told ESPN. Navarrete was set to meet Oscar Valdez in…
John Ryder claimed the WBO world interim super middleweight title after Zach Parker was forced to pull out at the end of the fourth round with a suspected broken right hand. Ryder (32-5, 18 KOs),…
Canadians Eugenie Bouchard and Gabriela Dabrowski and their partners are through to the doubles semifinals of the Chennai Open tennis tournament. Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., teamed with Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer for a 5-7, 6-3, 12-10…
Leigh Wood’s WBA featherweight title defense versus Mauricio Lara, scheduled for Sept. 24, is off after the champion suffered an injury during training. Wood (26-2, 16 KOs), 34, who pulled off a dramatic last-round stoppage…
Leon Edwards has shocked the MMA world. With a head kick in the final round of a fight he was losing handily, Edwards knocked out Kamaru Usman to collect the UFC welterweight title in the main event of…
Mauricio Pochettino has been sacked as Paris Saint-Germain coach just months after leading the team to the league title. The club is yet to announce the departure of the Argentine, but sources have told it was agreed…
Jiri Prochazka hit Glover Teixeira with everything he had — hard jabs, uppercuts, knees up the middle and combinations to the body. Teixeira gave it all back and then some. He landed huge overhand rights and left hooks,…
Manchester City won the Premier League title for a fourth time in five years after surviving an almighty scare on an amazing final day of the season. Starting one point ahead of Liverpool with a better…
Pep Guardiola has stated Manchester City have let Liverpool “have a life” in the Premier League title race after the 2-2 draw at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday. City twice led versus Jurgen Klopp’s team, first through Kevin de Bruyne and then Gabriel…
One top Bellator star will be defending her belt next month. Another will be giving up his title. Bellator president Scott Coker stated Wednesday on The MMA Hour that Cris Cyborg will defend her women’s featherweight title…
Daniil Medvedev earned his first major title by defeating Novak Djokovic at his own game in a stunning upset Sunday in the US Open men’s final. Medvedev denied Djokovic a victory that would have given him the…
Terence Crawford is inching closer to the biggest fight of his career. After Top Rank and PBC failed to complete a deal for Crawford to defend his title versus Shawn Porter by Friday’s deadline, the…
Andy Murray moved into the field for the US Open on Monday when another past champion at Flushing Meadows, Stan Wawrinka, pulled out because he still is recovering from foot surgery. Murray is a former No. 1…
Jamel Herring and Shakur Stevenson are finally going to get their hands on each other after months and months of verbal sparring. “We are in agreement with everything,” Stevenson’s manager, James Prince, told ESPN on…
Amanda Nunes, the pound-for-pound best female fighter in the UFC, will have to wait a little longer for the next defense of her bantamweight championship. She tested positive for COVID, UFC chief business officer Hunter…
The prospect of winning an Olympic gold medal for Serbia outweighs the disappointment of playing in an empty venue at the Tokyo games, the men’s world tennis No. 1 Novak Djokovic stated on Monday. Djokovic considered pulling…
The ball went from Chris Paul to Devin Booker and didn’t stop moving until Deandre Ayton scored after every Suns player had touched it. The 10-pass sequence was the prettiest play of the NBA Finals and the kind the one-man show…
Formula One champions Mercedes are fighting against the odds now in their title battle with Red Bull, team boss Toto Wolff stated after Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix dealt a fifth successive defeat. Once-dominant Mercedes started…
Mike Mason has often shied away from sizing up the high jump competition ahead of major championships, but two weeks ago he watched online as five men reached or surpassed 2.30 metres in Florence, Italy.…
Novak Djokovic came all the way back after dropping the first two sets to defeat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-7 (6), 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in the French Open final Sunday for his 19th Grand Slam title. Djokovic’s second…
Rafael Nadal’s French Open set streak is over. His pursuit of a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam title — including 14 at Roland Garros — remains very much intact. Nadal shrugged off dropping a set in…
Winning a match versus Rafael Nadal at the French Open is downright difficult, of course: He went into Tuesday with a 100-2 career record at the place. Just taking a set off the guy is nearly…
Damian Warner set a Canadian and world best in the long jump on Saturday in his first decathlon since the 2019 track and field world championships. The 31-year-old from London, Ont., jumped 8.28 metres at the…
Manager Zinedine Zidane has resigned from Real Madrid for the second time in his coaching career. Real failed to earn a trophy this campaign and were pipped to the La Liga title by city rivals Atletico Madrid…
Paris Saint-Germain is one of the richest soccer clubs in the world and a true sporting juggernaut — but the team’s quest for a fourth successive crown was thwarted by a rising Canadian star. Bankrolled by the…
It took more than 10 years, a failed drop in weight class and more than his fair share of ups and downs, but Charles Oliveira is lastly a UFC champion. Oliveira finished Michael Chandler via TKO at 19 seconds…