5:06 AM ET An under-strength Sporting Kansas City suffered a 6-1 defeat at home to Club Leon in the quarterfinals of the Leagues Cup Tuesday. Liga MX side Leon was three up at the break through Santiago Colombatto and two goals Omar Fernandez. Cameron Duke appeared to give Kansas City some hope with a goal
Month: August 2021
6:31 AM ET Adriana Garcia The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has called LaLiga’s agreement to sell 10% of its business to investment fund CVC Capital Partners for €2.7 billion as “completely illegal” and “appalling.” Ahead of Thursday’s general assembly in which the two thirds of the 42 clubs that form LaLiga must ratify the approved
8:39 AM ET Adriana Garcia Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has denied claims he had “any influence” on Lionel Messi‘s exit from Barcelona. Messi was unveiled at Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday after joining the club as a free agent. Jaume Llopis, a member of Joan Laporta’s board at Barcelona who resigned following Messi’s departure, claimed
8:31 AM ET WESTFIELD, Ind. — Colts owner Jim Irsay has locked up head coach Frank Reich and general manager Chris Ballard with contract extensions through the 2026 season, the team announced Wednesday. Ballard’s new deal has been complete since June, while Reich finalized his deal last week, a source told ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. “We
9:00 AM ET Clemson quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei has partnered with Dr. Pepper and will appear in its popular “Fansville” ad campaign throughout the college football season, the company announced Wednesday. Uiagalelei will be the only active collegiate player featured in the “Fansville” commercials, which chronicle the lives of rival fans in a fictional college football
2:08 PM ET The PGA Tour heads to Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, NC this week for the Wyndham Championship, an event that Jim Herman snuck up and won last year. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props are worth considering? Sports betting deputy editor David Bearman
8:41 AM ET The most unusual of golf seasons will come to an end this week in Greensboro, North Carolina. Well, the regular season will. Golf is an all-year deal, but the PGA Tour’s version will conclude at the Wyndham Championship, to be followed by three playoff events to determine its season-long champion. This week
8:30 AM ET Lionel Messi was given a hero’s welcome at Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday as he was officially unveiled following his whirlwind free transfer to the French club. Out of contract for the first time in 20 years, Messi brought his long and storied association with Barcelona to an emotional close last week after
7:32 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Guillermo Rigondeaux has heard it all before. He’s boring. Unwatchable. The opposite of entertaining. The two-time Olympic gold medalist absorbed all the criticism even as he was boxing circles around his opponents. Nonito Donaire, then the reigning ESPN fighter of the year, was thoroughly outboxed by Rigondeaux in 2013. Despite
5:00 AM ET Lionel Messi spoke at his first news conference as a Paris Saint-Germain player on Wednesday and said after a “very hard” end to his Barcelona career, his target is to win the Champions League again. PSG announced Messi’s arrival on Tuesday with the former Barcelona player signing a two-year contract, with the