USATSI UFC 261 takes place Saturday from VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida and will go down in front of a sold out crowd. With the event representing the first UFC card held in front of a live crowd since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, UFC president Dana White has informed fans who
247Sports Michigan landed a huge commitment on Tuesday from one of the best wide receivers in the Class of 2022. Tyler Morris, a four-star wide receiver out of Nazareth Academy in Bolingbrook, Illinois, announced his commitment to coach Jim Harbaugh and the Wolverines in a Twitter post. “I would like to start by thanking my
It’s hard to top what Kamaru Usman did the first time he faced Jorge Masvidal. Usman dominated the fight with his bitter rival on July 12 in Abu Dhabi, not only winning a unanimous decision but winning 14 of the cumulative 15 rounds scored by the judges. Only David Lethaby, who gave Masvidal the first,
Patrick Marleau can breathe a sigh of relief. As impossible of an idea as it was in the first place, the road to 1,768 career NHL games — now the most ever contested by a player — only became more uncertain over the past few seasons. Sold by one team needing to create cap space
11:40 AM ET Patrick Marleau played his 1,768th game Monday night, breaking Gordie Howe’s NHL career record. Which naturally led to questions about whether anyone would ever break Marleau’s still-increasing games benchmark. “The modern game, the speed, the physicality … players are playing at a young age, but it’s very difficult to be as durable
It’s Taurus season, and you know what that means. A lot of calm. Nearly the exact opposite of Aries’ chaos energy. The Taurus season is all about comforts, which doesn’t always fit the NHL description. Should make for an interesting month. Stat Leaders Connor McDavid: 74 points, 50 assists (Capricorn)Auston Matthews: 33 goals (Virgo)Mathieu Olivier:
10:00 AM ET Khamzat Chimaev says he is finally on the mend from a very difficult bout with COVID-19 that threatened to end his promising career earlier this year. Chimaev (9-0) was scheduled to face Leon Edwards in a high-profile UFC bout in January and again in March, but he was forced to withdraw both
With Chet Holmgren committing to Gonzaga on Monday, there is a new top remaining high school basketball recruit in the class of 2021. Henderson (Nev.) Coronado combo guard Jaden Hardy has ranked second just behind Holmgren in the industry-generated 247Sports Composite Rankings throughout the 2021 recruiting cycle. The 6-foot-4, 190-pound Hardy has an offer from
9:11 AM ET Mercedes believes it is still lagging behind rivals Red Bull on outright car performance this year, despite the team leading both drivers’ and constructors’ championships after the opening two rounds of the season. 1 Related After seven consecutive years of title success, Mercedes looks set for its toughest battle for the championship
10:00 AM ET Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha Trevor
The PGA Tour will take on a different look this week as players head to TPC Louisiana for the Zurich Classic. For those of you who do not religiously follow all things golf, you may be unaware of this week’s format. Let me explain. The Zurich Classic was revamped after the 2016 tournament. Starting in
Getty Images UFC has rolled right back into the action in 2021. After what can be called nothing short of a massive success in 2020 under incredibly difficult circumstances, UFC hasn’t missed a beat in the time since the pandemic started with big fight after big fight throughout the year. The first two months of
We’re happy to once again bring you a unique-but-fair piece of content that we publish each April. Every hiring cycle there is an impulse to “grade” new hirings. This practice is doomed to fail, as hot-take culture has led many a talking head and/or writer to looking foolish in attempt to be too bullish. The
It’s past time for NASCAR to make its approval process transparent to the public. Truck Series veteran Jennifer Jo Cobb was set to make her Cup Series debut at Talladega on Sunday. But Cobb, 47, won’t be in the race after all after NASCAR told Cobb that she didn’t meet the sanctioning body’s approval criteria
Getty Images Late last month, Indiana University hired Mike Woodson to be the new coach of its men’s basketball team, officially ending the speculation surrounding Brad Stevens. But while we’ve known for some time now that Stevens wouldn’t be leaving the Boston Celtics to go back to college, we didn’t know just how seriously Indiana
Leading up to the 2021 NFL draft, which starts April 29, Yahoo Sports will count down our top 100 overall prospects. We’ll count them down in groups of five for Nos. 100-51, followed by more in-depth reports on our top 50 players, with help from our scouting assistant, Liam Blutman. We reserve the right to
7:51 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Saturday’s UFC 261 pay-per-view will not be the first card in UFC history to have two women’s championships on the line. That distinction goes to a 2015 event in Melbourne, Australia, which is notable for two other reasons: first, for filling Etihad Stadium with 56,214 fans, the most ever to
Charli Collier’s basketball career was fast-tracked in college because everyone knew she would be draft-eligible after her junior year and started talking about her as a potential No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft. It was fast-tracked in high school, too, with the star player earning recruiting letters from all over and winning a bronze