12:49 PM ET Italian side Napoli‘s San Paolo stadium has been officially renamed the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium after the late Argentina midfielder who led them to their only two Serie A titles and the UEFA Cup, the city’s council said on Friday. Maradona died last week after suffering a heart attack at his home
Month: December 2020
3:54 PM ET Jeff Carlisle Close U.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Kyle Bonagura Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. MLS is making contingency plans for the MLS Cup final that include the possibility of holding the
5:13 PM ET Marv Marinovich, captain of USC‘s 1962 national championship team and a former NFL player and strength coach, died Thursday at 81, the school announced. Marinovich died in Mission Viejo, Calif., of natural causes. He played both offensive and defensive line for USC, which went 11-0 and defeated Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl
2:47 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — A minor league baseball team once affiliated with the Yankees has shut down and filed a lawsuit accusing the major league team of violating an agreement that it would never abandon the farm club. The owners of the Staten Island Yankees announced in a statement Thursday that
4:30 PM ET Former major league pitcher Chris Young will be the new executive vice president and general manager of the Texas Rangers, the team announced Friday. Young, a 6-foot-10 right-hander who went 79-67 with a 3.95 ERA for the Rangers, Padres, Mets, Mariners and Royals during his 13-year playing career, had been serving as
2:39 PM ET Sid LoweSpain writer The Camp Nou is falling down. Like really, genuinely falling down — and the rest of Barcelona is crumbling with it. That’s not some wild judgement from outside, nor a loud front-page headline inflated for maximum impact — in fact, the covers of Sport and Mundo Deportivo, the two
2:15 PM ET Austin LindbergESPN FC How did the New England Revolution get here? The 15th-best team in the 26-team league when the 2020 MLS Cup playoffs began is suddenly the most in-form side of the postseason, preparing for Sunday’s Eastern Conference final against Columbus Crew SC (3 p.m. ET, stream live on ABC). And
12:49 PM ET Arsenal‘s best results under Mikel Arteta have come in a style markedly at odds with the philosophy the Spaniard outlined when taking charge last December. “There are some things that have to have a blueprint,” he said at the time. “We have to have passion, we have to be dominant, we have
3:57 PM ET HENDERSON, Nev. — Las Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs, the NFL’s fifth-leading rusher with 782 yards, has been ruled out of Sunday’s game at the winless New York Jets after suffering a right ankle injury last week, coach Jon Gruden said Friday. Safety Johnathan Abram, who has a knee injury, also
4:56 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Trace McSorley went from being the Baltimore Ravens’ No. 3 quarterback to their only quarterback on the active roster Friday, although reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson could get activated off the reserve/COVID-19 list this weekend. The Ravens placed top backup Robert Griffin III on injured reserve Friday after