Getty Images UFC is ready to get back to regularly scheduled programming. With fans. The promotion heads back out on the road this week to Jacksonville, Florida, for UFC 261 with a loaded fight card that features three title fights. It all goes down on Saturday, April 24, inside the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena with
2:00 PM ET Former Wake Forest coach Danny Manning is expected to join Mark Turgeon’s staff at Maryland as an assistant coach, sources told ESPN. Manning and Turgeon played together at Kansas in the 1980s, including on the Jayhawks’ 1986 Final Four team. Manning was the head coach at Wake Forest for six seasons before
3:24 PM ET Florida Gators forward Keyontae Johnson, who was hospitalized after collapsing during a game in December, on Wednesday said he will not enter the 2021 NBA draft and is waiting for medical clearance to return to the team for next season. “I am progressing & steadily making progress daily in my health,” Johnson
USATSI On Wednesday, Vegas Golden Knights goalie Robin Lehner called out the NHL, saying the league is not staying true to previous promises surrounding COVID-19 vaccinations. Lehner claims the league told players if they got vaccinated the restrictions would be loosened, but says that hasn’t been the case. Lehner says the NHL forced the players
Trevor Lawrence, the presumptive first overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft, has declined to attend the event. But Zach Wilson, the presumptive second overall pick, will be there. Wilson has decided to attend the draft in Cleveland, according t Adam Schefter of ESPN. The Jets are widely expected to take Wilson with the second
3:37 PM ET Associated Press The Indianapolis 500 is set to be the largest sporting event in the world since the start of the pandemic with 135,000 spectators permitted to attend. “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” next month. Indianapolis Motor Speedway said Wednesday it worked with the Marion County Public Health Department to determine that
4:24 PM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Athlete protests and political messages will remain banned at the Olympics, the IOC said Wednesday, after a survey found that a majority of competitors were in favor of keeping the ban in place. That means raising a fist on the podium — like American sprinters Tommie Smith
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Getty Images Jorge Masvidal gets a second crack at Kamaru Usman and the welterweight championship when the two rematch in the main event of UFC 261 from VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday. There’s also a very real possibility the fight represents Masvidal’s final opportunity to become UFC champion. Masvidal has one
Brad Keselowski is known as a superspeedway expert in NASCAR circles, and after winning the GEICO 70 in the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series in a late-race pass, his status holds true in the sim world, too. The 2012 NASCAR Cup Series champ passed race-dominant James Davison on a late-race restart as chaos unfolded deep
Odds can change quickly. On Tuesday, there were only two drivers with odds less than 10/1 for the Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. On Wednesday, there was only one. Denny Hamlin retained his +700 odds while Joey Logano moved from +900 to +1000. Favorites are hard to come by on a track where a single
3:15 PM ET Washington outside linebacker Zion Tupuola-Fetui suffered a torn Achilles and will miss six to 10 months, coach Jimmy Lake announced Wednesday. In Washington’s four-game 2020 season, Tupuola-Fetui recorded seven sacks and was named a third-team AP All-American. He is expected to have surgery to repair the injury later this week and the
Ronda Rousey and her husband Travis Browne announced on their YouTube channel that they are expecting their first child together. The former UFC star and WWE wrestler said in the video that she is four months along and has been pregnant since January. Rousey and Browne did not announce the gender, but said the reveal
BARCELONA, Spain — Rafael Nadal needed three sets to beat his 111th-ranked opponent in his first match at the Barcelona Open, while Fabio Fognini was disqualified for alleged verbal abuse. Fognini was defaulted while trailing 6-0, 4-4 against qualifier Bernabe Zapata Miralles of Spain, after a line judge told the chair umpire that the ninth-seeded
USATSI After a scary on-court collapse during a game in December that ended his season, Florida forward Keyontae Johnson announced Wednesday that he won’t enter his name in the 2021 NBA Draft. Instead, the 2021 SEC Preseason Player of the Year indicated he will prepare for the upcoming college basketball season while waiting for clearance
Over 100,000 fans will be at the 2021 Indianapolis 500. A year after the historic race was moved to August and held without fans because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced Wednesday that the May 30 race would be held with 135,000 fans in attendance. That six-figure number will make it far and
Getty One of Washington’s star players — and one of the Pac-12’s best as well — is out for the foreseeable future with a significant injury. Huskies coach Jimmy Lake announced on Wednesday that linebacker Zion Tupuola-Fetui suffered a torn Achilles during a scrimmage the previous week. The injury requires surgery and Tupuola-Fetui will miss
Top seed Rafael Nadal rallied from a set back to beat Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday in the second round at the Barcelona Open in Spain. Nadal lost serve in the opening game of the match and wasn’t able to break Ivashka’s serve throughout the first set. He won just 70.6