Month: July 2021

5:27 AM ET Gareth Southgate wants more done to help South Asian footballers. Catherine Ivill/Getty Images England manager Gareth Southgate said the country needs to adapt its approach to scouting in order to uncover more British South Asian footballers. Despite making up 7% of the whole population, just 0.25% of professional footballers are from a British
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9:43 AM ET The United States men’s national team will face Mexico in a World Cup qualifier at Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium on Nov. 12, the U.S. Soccer Federation announced on Wednesday. The choice of venue amounts to a break with recent tradition. While the game will mark the sixth consecutive time that the U.S. has
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9:54 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Giovanni Reyna is becoming a central figure for Borussia Dortmund. Alexandre Simoes/Borussia Dortmund/Getty Images Giovanni Reyna has taken Borussia Dortmund‘s No. 7 shirt following the departure of Jadon Sancho to Manchester United. Sancho left Dortmund for the Premier League in a €85 million move on a
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7:39 AM ET Chelsea and Sevilla have entered talks over a deal that will take defender Jules Kounde to Stamford Bridge this summer, sources have told ESPN. Sources have told ESPN that the deal could be worth around €70 million — €10m less than Kounde’s buyout clause. Chelsea are considering including Kurt Zouma in the
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9:06 AM ET The United States women’s national team has been handed $1 million from a small California-based athletic apparel company so they can get a taste of being rewarded like their male counterparts as they fight for equal pay. After watching the recently-released “LFG” documentary that chronicles the USWNT’s battle for equal pay, Title
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9:21 AM ET A Lombardi trophy wasn’t at stake this time, but Patrick Mahomes has dethroned Tom Brady. With the National Sports Collectors Convention beginning just outside Chicago on Wednesday, PWCC Marketplace announced that a Mahomes 2017 Panini National Treasures 1-of-1, NFL shield, autographed card has sold for $4.3 million, the most ever paid for
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10:32 AM ET WESTFIELD, Ind. — The Indianapolis Colts have signed right tackle Braden Smith to a four-year, $72.4 million contract extension, with $42 million guaranteed, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. “We want to take care of our players,” general manager Chris Ballard said earlier this week. Smith, a second-round pick in 2018, spent
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9:17 AM ET Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is not practicing Wednesday because of issues related to COVID-19, sources told ESPN’s Jamison Hensley and Adam Schefter. The NFL flagged Jackson’s latest COVID-19 tests and is still trying to process and evaluate the results, sources told Hensley and Schefter. The Ravens also are seeking clarity regarding
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9:48 AM ET Mike Sullivan of the Pittsburgh Penguins will coach the U.S. men’s hockey team if the NHL goes to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. USA Hockey announced its coaches for the 2022 Games on Wednesday. Along with Sullivan, Joel Johnson of the University of St. Thomas will coach the women’s national team,
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