After resting the majority of their starters against Belgium, ESPN FC’s Steve McManaman says England are poised to go out and win against Colombia. Colombia have left James Rodriguez on the bench for their World Cup round of 16 match against England on Tuesday, as the star midfielder battles to overcome an injury. The 26-year-old playmaker
Month: July 2018
12:09 PM ET ESPN News Services Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo met with St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina during batting practice Monday night to patch things up after the two men nearly came to blows the last time the teams met in April. In that April 8 game, Lovullo uttered a profanity Molina thought
3:00 AM ET Big Picture The battle between the eighth and ninth-ranked Test sides will not necessarily attract a lot of viewers, particularly with the football World Cup getting into its business end at the same time. The Antigua Test, therefore, might go under the radar, but it will still be mightily important for West
12:42 PM ET Move over, Gronkowski. There’s a new horse in town, and he’s a king. Phoenix Thoroughbreds, an England-based horse company, in May acquired the 2-year-old son of Medaglia d’Oro, and received permission to name the colt LeBron J, just like the newly signed Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James. Phoenix also owns Gronkowski.
11:30 AM ET The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series was in the midst of a competitiveness problem. The average margin of victory (of races that didn’t end under caution) was over three seconds, the highest since NASCAR began using electronic scoring in 1993. We were averaging fewer than eight different leaders per race, the fewest
9:33 AM ET Christian Horner believes Red Bull would currently be leading the Formula One world championship if it hadn’t dropped so many points in the opening nine races of 2018. Max Verstappen has his sights on challenging for the drivers’ title after winning the Austrian Grand Prix. Mercedes’ double retirement was a dark day
6:22 AM ET Chris Froome will lead Team Sky at the 2018 Tour de France after their lineup was named for the Grand Tour which starts on Saturday in Noirmoutier-en-l’Île. The defending champion has won four of the last five yellow jerseys and will look to win a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title. Sky
The ESPN FC panel assess the rumours linking Napoli’s Jorginho and Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez with moves to Manchester City. The transfer window is open, and Transfer Talk has the latest rumours making the rounds. Follow along with our daily blog throughout the summer. City close in on Mahrez move Manchester City’s drawn-out pursuit of
4:30 AM ET On the face of it, the Austrian Grand Prix was a hammer blow for Mercedes’ championship. Not only did the team fail to score on a circuit where it had looked dominant all weekend, it showed clear weaknesses in both reliability and race strategy during a championship battle in which the smallest
shares Toss Zimbabwe chose to bowl v Australia Chris Mpofu finds a reason to smile during training © AFP Zimbabwe’s captain Hamilton Masakadza won the toss and sent Australia in to bat in the third match of the Twenty20 triangular tournament in Harare. The day after Billy Stanlake obliterated Pakistan, Masakadza’s call means Aaron