11:03 AM ET Ivan Rakitic will leave Barcelona to return to his former club Sevilla, sources have told ESPN. The midfielder — who signed for Barca from Sevilla in 2014 — has a year left on his contract at Camp Nou, but he does not form part of the plans new coach Ronald Koeman’s has
6:38 AM ET Alex Kirkland Arturo Vidal has hit out at Barcelona, criticising the club’s management on and off the pitch, and hinted that he would be open to a return to Serie A amid links with Inter Milan. The Chile midfielder, 33, is one of the players Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu and new
6:25 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona believe the only way Lionel Messi can legally leave for free is if he commits to not playing football next season, sources have told ESPN. Barca’s interpretation of a much-debated clause in Messi’s deal is that he could quit the club but would have to forgo his
10:10 AM ET Notre Dame football attendance this fall will be limited to 20% or less of stadium capacity with priority going to students, the school announced Monday. Once student ticket demand is met, Notre Dame faculty and staff will receive the remaining tickets. No fans from outside the university community will be allowed, with
10:28 AM ET ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Cory Undlin will be calling the defensive plays for the franchise this year, the first time the 49-year-old will call plays in the NFL. Whether the Lions would use Undlin or head coach Matt Patricia as the defensive playcaller had been a continued question
8:00 AM ET With six first-round series done in the 2020 NBA playoffs, let’s bounce around some positives and negatives we haven’t covered in other places (i.e., enough about The Process). We’ll have more on the Jamal Murray–Donovan Mitchell firestorm before Tuesday’s Game 7. The Mavs are here … right? Through four games against perhaps
9:04 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Robin Montgomery was hanging out after practice one day in early August at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland, when she got the text. It was only a few words, but they changed her life in an instant: “You got the wild card.” The 15-year-old was in
9:44 AM ET For the record, Tiger Woods finished 63rd in the FedEx Cup standings, his 2019-20 season coming to an end Sunday at the BMW Championship, where he failed to qualify for this week’s Tour Championship. That means he won’t be able to play for the $45 million in FedEx bonus money that is
7:43 AM ET It almost doesn’t seem possible that Michael Chandler is a free agent for the first time The 34-year-old former Bellator MMA champion has been one of the best lightweights on the planet for nearly a decade. He’s openly discussed the possibility of testing free agency multiple times, but Bellator has never let
8:30 AM ET It is the transfer story that won’t go away, but of all the summer sagas, Thiago Alcantara from Bayern Munich to Liverpool is the one that is least likely to happen… for now. Within that league table of “will they / will won’t they?” deals you can include Lionel Messi from Barcelona