Brett OkamotoOct 9, 2025, 04:16 PM ET Close Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. …
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In 1843, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem entitled The Tell-Tale Heart about a heart that refused to stop beating despite every effort to kill it. The Ravens will need such a heart if they’re going to find their way back into the playoff picture. On Sunday, Baltimore welcomed the Texans with both teams sitting at 1–3. The Ravens needed …
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A Tuesday report indicates Lamar Jackson could miss 2-3 weeks with a hamstring injury. The Ravens aren’t saying that. In fact, Ravens coach John Harbaugh isn’t saying much at all about Jackson’s status. He wouldn’t even confirm Jackson is “day to day.” “How about I just don’t say anything? That’s what I would do. Why don’t we just leave it …
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Wednesday’s “First Call” has news about a departing Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back. Lamar Jackson could be down for a while in Baltimore. The Atlantic 10’s commissioner wants a bigger NCAA Tournament. And we check in on some former Pirates in the MLB playoffs. Pillaging the practice squad The Tampa Bay Buccaneers nabbed a member of the Steelers from the practice …
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Priscilla Presley is dishing the dirt on her late daughter Lisa and Michael Jackson’s love life in her new bookSoftly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis. The revelation follows the news of an updated effort by her former business partners, Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko, who alleged that she was only too eager to see her daughter pass away …
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Andreas HaleSep 19, 2025, 10:54 AM ET Close Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior …
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There’s more footage of the so-called Phillies Karen on the internet than you’re likely to find of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s fan-shoving incident from Sunday night in Orchard Park, N.Y. And that’s just as well, because it shouldn’t take a review of everybody’s cellphone movie-making talents to arrive at an obvious conclusion: NFL players can’t be making physical contact …
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A fan in attendance for the first game of the last season at the Bills’ current stadium may never be welcome there again. Or in the new stadium. After a third-quarter touchdown reception by Ravens receiver DeAndre Hopkins, Hopkins, quarterback Lamar Jackson, and other Ravens were in the vicinity of the front row of stands. A fan in a red …
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Paris Jackson has criticised an upcoming biopic of her father, Michael Jackson, saying she had “zero per cent involvement” in the film, which she suggests has been “sugar-coated” in a broader swipe at Hollywood biopics that contain “full-blown lies”. The comments came just two days after the actor Colman Domingo, who plays the family patriarch Joe Jackson in the film …
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WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry has received a lot of criticism for his very dumb take on the incident at KnokX Pro’s show last Saturday night, where MMA fighter Raja Jackson legitimately knocked out independent wrestler Syko Stu (real name Stuart Smith) with multiple heavy punches to the head, sending him to the hospital with serious injuries. Henry actually …
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