6:51 AM ET Adriana Garcia Barcelona president Joan Laporta has said LaLiga chief Javier Tebas has a “sick obsession” with the club and blames him for Lionel Messi‘s departure this summer. Barca were unable to register a new contract for Messi when his previous deal expired under LaLiga’s strict financial salary limits, leading to him
Month: September 2021
11:28 AM ET The league clash between Nice and Marseille which was abandoned last month due to crowd trouble will be replayed on Oct. 27, France’s Ligue 1 said on Monday. The match was abandoned in the 75th minute when Nice supporters threw water bottles as Marseille were about to take a corner. – ESPN+
10:19 AM ET Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Gareth Bale will miss Real Madrid‘s Champions League game at Inter Milan on Wednesday after suffering a hamstring injury and sources have told ESPN that no date has been set for his return. Bale missed Madrid’s 5-2 LaLiga win over Celta Vigo on Sunday after picking up the
12:43 PM ET The European soccer weekend was full of highs and lows, ups and downs — as per usual. Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United and looked great, Antoine Griezmann returned to Atletico Madrid and didn’t. The Bundesliga’s best team, Bayern Munich, humiliated their closest rivals, RB Leipzig, while Serie A’s previous force, Juventus,
12:24 PM ET Kansas State quarterback Skylar Thompson is out indefinitely but will return at some point this season after sustaining a right knee injury in Saturday’s game against Southern Illinois, coach Chris Klieman said Monday. Thompson was injured while blocking for teammate Deuce Vaughn on a run play in the first quarter, although Thompson
12:44 PM ET Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday that Casey Thompson will replace Hudson Card as the Longhorns’ starting quarterback. Card, who started the first two games, was 8-of-15 for 61 yards and was sacked three times in the Longhorns’ 40-21 loss to Arkansas. Thompson, who also played in the second half against Louisiana,
11:51 AM ET Purdue starting running back Zander Horvath, a third-team All-Big Ten selection in 2020, will miss four to eight weeks with a broken leg. Coach Jeff Brohm said that Horvath has a broken fibula and would undergo surgery Monday. He sustained the injury in the first quarter of Saturday’s win at UConn and
11:50 AM ET Virginia Tech will be without star tight end James Mitchell for the rest of the season, coach Justin Fuente announced Monday, after the junior suffered a knee injury in the 15th-ranked Hokies’ win over Middle Tennessee on Saturday. Mitchell, a preseason All-ACC selection, injured his right knee on a goal-line running play
11:32 AM ET Tulane‘s football team will return to campus and play its first game there since Hurricane Ida on Sept. 25 when it hosts UAB at Yulman Stadium. The Green Wave left campus for Birmingham, Alabama, before the storm hit, and all of Tulane’s athletic operations have been taking place there. Tulane moved its
10:03 AM ET The new legal sports betting market in the U.S. just experienced its busiest four-day stretch ever as the NFL season kicked off. GeoComply, a company that provides geolocation services to sportsbooks, tracked 58.2 million online transactions that took place Thursday through Sunday with sportsbooks in 18 states and the District of Columbia.