12:45 PM ET Outside Red Bull Arena, the clinks of Coronas, a blaring Bad Bunny track and the anxious frenzy of juggling circles score the dusk. Inside, a sprite with copper-tinged hair skates around his contemporaries in hot pink cleats: Sporting Kansas City midfielder, Gianluca Busio, still weeks shy of his 19th birthday. Sporting KC
Month: July 2021
8:54 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Lionel Messi and Barcelona have reached an agreement for the forward to sign a new five-year deal with the Catalan club, sources have confirmed to ESPN. Sources added Messi has accepted a significant wage reduction to prolong his stay. Messi was a free agent after his contract at
11:17 AM ET Free-agent cornerback Richard Sherman was booked at 6:08 a.m. local time at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle for “Burglary Domestic Violence,” according to public records. Sherman also was denied bail. Sherman, 33, completed his third season with the San Francisco 49ers in 2020 after spending the first seven seasons of
10:52 AM ET Nebraska has hired Trev Alberts, a former All-American linebacker for the Cornhuskers, as athletic director, the school announced Wednesday. “It is such a tremendous honor to have this opportunity to lead Husker athletics,” Alberts said in a statement. “UNL has incredibly talented coaches and student-athletes, and a fan base like no other
11:27 AM ET Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby kicked off Big 12 media days on Wednesday with a reminder that college football will still be dealing with the COVID pandemic this fall, and made a strong push for players to be vaccinated. Bowlsby was proud that the Big 12 completed 90 percent of its schedule
9:35 AM ET Ohio‘s Frank Solich, the winningest coach in MAC history and the fourth-winningest active coach in all of college football, is stepping down to focus on his health, the school announced on Wednesday. Offensive coordinator Tim Albin has been promoted to head coach, having already agreed to a new four-year contract. Solich, 76,
9:03 AM ET SANDWICH, England — While he would not go so far as to say a player would automatically be disqualified for breaking stringent protocols, R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers said Wednesday that such a breach would put the player’s standing in The Open in jeopardy. “I think he would be at risk of
9:32 AM ET SANDWICH, England — Lee Westwood is on the verge of setting a golf record that some might consider dubious. He chooses to look at it with pride. If Westwood, 48, fails to win The Open at Royal St. George’s this week, he will have played in more major championships without a victory
9:41 PM ET The UFC’s September pay-per-view event — UFC 266 on Sept. 25 in Las Vegas — will officially feature two title fights, UFC president Dana White told ESPN. Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski will face Brian Ortega in the main event of UFC 266 inside T-Mobile Arena. In the co-main event, women’s flyweight champion
6:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Of all the things the Denver Broncos want to see as training camp unfolds, linebackers Von Miller and Bradley Chubb together in the defense is near the top of the list. The high hopes of what the two could do together in a defense are memories that have grown