7:56 AM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Haikal won’t run in the Kentucky Derby because of an infection in his left front foot, reducing the field to 19 horses. Haikal joins early favorite Omaha Beach on the sidelines for Saturday’s race. Trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, Haikal was being treated for an abscess and didn’t
Month: May 2019
Orlando Pirates are on the brink of winning the South African Premier Soccer League after seven years without a title, the silverware set to crown a campaign underpinned by the coaching prowess, and sleepless nights, of coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic. The 49-year-old Serb originally joined the Buccaneers back in 2006, but departed after just over
8:34 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN COLUMBUS — When Blue Jackets winger Nick Foligno first arrived in Columbus in 2012, he instantly bonded with goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. After every win, the team skated over to congratulate the goaltender. Usually guys tapped Bobrovsky on the helmet or shoulder. Foligno usually lurked by the end of the line
7:00 AM ET CHICAGO — Like the latest episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” the battle to take place at Wrigley Field this weekend has been brewing for some time. In fact, the rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals goes back about as far as Westeros. And just like the rise in
7:00 AM ET It’s a weekend of rivalries old and new — Cardinals vs. Cubs, Dodgers vs. Padres, Bryce Harper‘s old team vs. Bryce Harper’s new team. Here’s your guide to all the fun. Cardinals-Cubs has long been considered one of baseball’s best rivalries. (They play this weekend at Wrigley: Friday, 2:20 p.m. ET, ESPN+;
8:05 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Three of the four series in the second round are now deadlocked, as the Boston Bruins tied things up with the Columbus Blue Jackets, and the Colorado Avalanche did likewise with their win against the San Jose Sharks. Here’s what happened in the NHL last night (check out replays of
11:33 PM ET Substitute Andy Rose scored in the 87th minute to lift the Whitecaps to a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Rapids after Vancouver gave back a two-goal, first-half lead on Friday night in Commerce City, Colorado. Rose’s winner came 10 minutes after Colorado’s Diego Rubio was ejected for making contact in the face
Gio Reyna, a son of former U.S. national team captain Claudio Reyna, sparked a comeback from a two-goal deficit with an assist, then converted a free kick to put the Americans ahead in their 3-2 victory over Canada on Thursday night in their opener at the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship. Canada went ahead 2-0 on goals
10:52 PM ET Los Angeles Football Club may have lingering frustration after it failed to defeat a short-handed opponent last weekend. That could be bad news for the visiting Chicago Fire on Saturday night at Banc of California Stadium. In its second match in as many weeks against the Seattle Sounders, LAFC (7-1-2, 23 points)
10:13 PM ET Seattle midfielder Cristian Roldan is looking forward to squaring off against former teammate Osvaldo Alonso on Saturday night when the Sounders visit Minnesota United at Allianz Field in Saint Paul, Minn. “Well, I’m happy that I’ll be able to compete against Ozzie. (He was) really a mentor of mine,” said Roldan, who