Real Madrid coach Santi Solari was guarded in his praise for Isco after the Spain international marked a rare start with two goals in his team’s 6-1 stroll past third tier Melilla in the Copa del Rey at the Bernabeu on Thursday afternoon. Madrid eased to a 10-1 aggregate passage to the round of 16
Month: December 2018
1:25 PM ET Another professional football league — the Freedom Football League — has been created by former NFL players, including Ricky Williams, Terrell Owens and Simeon Rice, with the intention of “reimagining, rethinking, reinventing and reforming” the game, it was announced Thursday. Williams, appearing on ESPN’s Outside the Lines on Thursday, said there are
1:19 PM ET Real Madrid trounced third division side Melilla 6-1 in a Copa del Rey round of 32 second leg on Thursday, completing a 10-1 aggregate victory, to ease into the round of 16 of the competition. Madrid went into half-time with a three-goal lead after Marco Asensio scored twice in three minutes and
12:54 PM ET Associated Press The NCAA says the number of enforced targeting penalties in the Football Bowl Subdivision this regular season was the same as in 2017, ending four straight years of increased calls. NCAA national coordinator of officials Rogers Redding reported 179 enforced calls in 817 games compared with 179 in 816 games
Real Madrid strolled into the last 16 of the Copa del Rey, with a mostly second-string side winning 6-1 on the day for a 10-1 aggregate victory to progress against third-tier Melilla. Positives Madrid had not won a Copa del Rey game at the Bernabeu for two seasons, so the victory was welcome. Marco Asensio
12:46 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Don’t expect to hear much in the near future from Mike McCarthy after he was fired by the Green Bay Packers with four games left in his 13th season as head coach. He told ESPN.com that he planned to “lay low and try to finish this professional chapter
12:45 PM ET You’ve got to hand it to Gus Dorazio. He took it to Joe Louis and went down swinging. When the prohibitive underdog launched a wild left hook in the second round, Louis beat him to the punch with a short right inside the challenger’s looping offering. Gus fell face-first and was counted
9:00 AM ET At a high school football camp in Los Angeles last spring, the quarterbacks in attendance stood in two lines, throwing back-and-forth to warm up. Near the end of one of them, a 6-foot-1, 173-pound prospect wearing a red Oklahoma visor and gold cleats stood out. While the other quarterbacks looked around, sizing
12:02 PM ET NORMAN, Okla. — Not long after Bob Stoops won a national championship in his second season at Oklahoma, the Cleveland Browns tried to pry him away. In his words then, Stoops had “always been intrigued” by the NFL. And so he did listen to the Browns. But ultimately, Stoops opted to remain
12:35 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson has been fined $15,000 for making an “inappropriate gesture” to a spectator. The NBA announced the punishment Thursday. Thompson’s action came at the end of the Cavaliers’ 99-97 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Monday at the Barclays Center. Thompson finished with