4:35 AM ET Josh Cavallo, Australia’s first active male professional footballer to come out as gay, said a country’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights should be considered before awarding hosting rights for a major sporting event. Cavallo has yet to receive a call-up to Australia‘s senior squad but has previously said he would be “scared” to
7:12 AM ET Argentina winger Angel Di Maria is expected to be fit in time for the World Cup, after Juventus said on Thursday that he sustained a low-grade hamstring injury and will be out until early November. Di Maria picked up the injury in their 2-0 defeat against Maccabi Haifa in the Champions League
5:19 AM ET Security personnel are shown on the field at Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java. STR/AFP via Getty Images The Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) and FIFA will form a joint task force in a bid to improve crowd control and safety measures after a deadly football stampede earlier this month, officials said on Thursday.
8:00 AM ET Liverpool took themselves to the brink of qualifying for the Champions League knockout phase in emphatic fashion on Wednesday by thrashing Rangers 7-1 at Ibrox, where Mohamed Salah was afforded the freedom of Glasgow. 2 Related Bouncing back from a deflating defeat against Arsenal in the Premier League last weekend, the Reds
7:00 AM ET The Cleveland Guardians weren’t supposed to be here — not yet. They entered the season with the youngest roster in MLB, at least a season or two behind a Chicago White Sox team that many pundits believed would run away with the American League Central race. And yet, here they are, after
7:00 AM ET JAKE OETTINGER FELT INVINCIBLE. The Dallas Stars were in a Game 7 overtime against the Calgary Flames in the first round of last season’s playoffs. They were there because of Oettinger, the second-year goaltender who had stopped 208 of the 218 shots he had faced in the previous six games. The finale
6:17 AM ET Associated Press INZAI CITY, Japan — Brendan Steele finished with four consecutive birdies and shot a 6-under 64 on Thursday to take the first-round lead at the PGA Tour’s Zozo Championship. “Everybody says if you birdie 18, dinner tastes better,” Steele said. “But four in a row is definitely, really nice and
7:45 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall headline an all-women card at the O2 in London on Saturday (ESPN+, 2:30 p.m. ET) in a fight to crown the undisputed middleweight champion. Shields and Marshall are the best two fighters in the division — and two of the best in the entire
12:10 PM ET ASHBURN, Va. — Ron Rivera was chatting with former Chicago Bears teammate Walter Payton on the sidelines during a game in 1996. The conversation started about a defensive call; it ended with Rivera traveling a new career path, with Payton clearing the way. Payton was on the Bears’ board of directors, and
7:00 AM ET This story was reported and written by ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham and Tisha Thompson. DAN SNYDER DOES this thing when he feels cornered, say those who know him well. He paces in a hotel suite, or on his superyacht, or at River View, his $48 million Virginia estate. Cradling