1:48 AM ET Angel Mena scored twice in the second half, including a penalty kick in the 81st minute, and Club Leon rallied for a 3-2 win over the Seattle Sounders in the Leagues Cup final on Wednesday night. The eight-team, single-elimination competition between teams in Liga MX and Major League Soccer concluded with a
7:15 AM ET NFL practice squads used to be an afterthought, a place for late-round picks and undrafted rookies to develop behind the scenes. Now, those squads are well-stocked with veterans who once racked up millions — good players taking jobs they never thought they’d need for less than 30 cents on the league-minimum dollar.
7:49 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua won’t clash this year as hoped, but both heavyweights each have a big-time challenge ahead of them in the coming weeks. Joshua’s defense on Saturday against Oleksandr Usyk (5 p.m. ET, DAZN) and Fury’s trilogy fight with Deontay Wilder (Oct. 9, ESPN+ PPV) are part
7:21 AM ET Lewis Hamilton said he knows the “intense” pressure title rival Max Verstappen must be feeling as he battles for his first Formula One championship. For the second time this season, Hamilton and Verstappen collided at the Italian Grand Prix. The incident took both drivers out of the race and led to Verstappen
7:30 AM ET It’s been nearly 25 years since the Head Ball Coach, surrounded by a sea of triumphant Florida players, coaches and cheerleaders, stood on the turf at a raucous Louisiana Superdome and repeated one of his favorite sayings. “Swanny, God has smiled on the Gators,” Steve Spurrier told ABC sideline reporter Lynn Swann.
6:00 AM ET Josh Weinfuss Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the Cardinals since 2012 Graduate of Indiana University Member of Pro Football Writers of America Michael DiRocco Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered University of Florida for 13 seasons for ESPN.com and Florida Times-Union Graduate of Jacksonville University Multiple APSE award winner During their heydays at
7:00 AM ET With one week left until the calendar turns to October, the 2021 MLB playoffs are just around the corner. But there is still much to be decided in the final days of the regular season, with everything from division titles and final postseason berths to the No. 1 pick in the 2022
6:35 AM BST Wallabies coach Dave Rennie and All Blacks counterpart Ian Foster both say they were unaware of World Rugby’s move to place a limit on the amount of full contact players are involved in at training. The governing body on Thursday [AEST] released a set of “guidelines” which it hopes will lead to
2:33 AM BST ESPN staff World Rugby has reinforced its commitment to improving player welfare with the introduction of guidelines for the amount of contact and set-piece training undertaken each week. In conjunction with International Rugby Players [IRP], World Rugby has created guidelines that will seek to reduce the amount of injuries “while maintaining or
6:54 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — The Los Angeles Dodgers activated outfielder AJ Pollock from the injured list a day earlier than they were anticipating in order to have another position player on the bench. With outfielder Cody Bellinger going on the injured list and infielder/outfielder Chris Taylor dealing with a sore neck, the