5:05 PM ET Adriana Garcia Paris Saint-Germain have signed the highly-rated Portugal midfielder Vitor Ferreira “Vitinha” from Porto, the French champions announced on Thursday. PSG triggered the player’s €40m release clause to see off competition from Premier League clubs and land the 22-year-old. Vitinha, 22, has put pen to paper on a five-year deal. –
5:06 PM ET ESPN staff USC and UCLA are planning to join the Big Ten as early as 2024, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday, spinning the conference realignment wheel again a little under a year after Oklahoma and Texas rocked the college football world by announcing their intentions to join the SEC. The fallout
4:00 PM ET Connor O’Halloran Oleksandr Usyk has said he will return to Ukraine following the first defence of his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight title belts against Anthony Joshua in August. Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs), 35, will rematch Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs), 32, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Aug. 20, having become heavyweight champion
1:31 PM ET Australia’s Ryan Fox carded an 8-under-par 64 to claim a 1-shot lead after the first round at the Irish Open on Thursday. The 35-year-old got off to a dream start at Mount Juliet Estate in Kilkenny, Ireland, as he birdied six of the first eight holes for a flawless opening round. 1
Rahul Dravid walked and sat on a wooden bench alongside the nets at Edgbaston. On the adjacent bench was Jasprit Bumrah, padded up, bat by his side. Bumrah had just finished a batting session. You can’t know the exact words the duo exchanged, but on the available evidence, Dravid’s gestures indicated him checking if Bumrah
1:57 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Social media influencer Logan Paul has signed a deal with WWE, the organization announced on Thursday. The pact is a multi-event deal, sources told ESPN, that will push into 2023. Paul will compete in the ring at multiple WWE premium live events (formerly called pay-per-views by the company) and will
2:10 PM ET SILVERSTONE — The FIA will start enforcing rules around how much Formula One cars can bounce — or porpoise — from the French Grand Prix onwards. F1’s governing body has introduced a Technical Directive on the issue following safety concerns about the impact of the bouncing on drivers’ health. After the Azerbaijan
1:55 PM ET TOWCESTER, England — Max Verstappen said the racial slur Nelson Piquet used to describe Lewis Hamilton is “not correct” but insisted the three-time world champion is “definitely not a racist.” Verstappen knows Piquet, the father of his girlfriend, Kelly, better than most in the Formula One paddock and was quick to say
2:05 PM ET Pete Thamel Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University USC and UCLA, two of the Pac-12’s flagship programs, are planning to leave the conference for the Big Ten as early as 2024, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. The Mercury News first
2:21 PM ET Five-star offensive tackle Kadyn Proctor announced his commitment to Iowa football Thursday in a huge in-state recruiting win for the Hawkeyes. Proctor is the No. 6 prospect overall in the 2023 class and had a top-two list of Iowa and Alabama. It’s not often that those two schools battle for the same