9:00 AM ET William Ricks We’re already in Week 6 of the college football season, and it’s been high-octane energy all year long. There have been upsets, blowouts, trolls — you name it. Expect more of the same heading into a huge week on the college gridiron. There are some great games on tap —
Month: October 2021
1:57 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN DETROIT, Mich. — Ben Wallace is an NBA Hall of Famer, NBA champion and four-time Defensive Player of the Year. Now the 47-year-old can add basketball operations and team engagement advisor for the Detroit Pistons to his resume. The Pistons announced Friday that Wallace has been hired in this role
Royal Challengers Bangalore 166 for 3 (Bharat 78*, Maxwell 51, Nortje 2-24) beat Delhi Capitals 164 for 5 (Shaw 48, Dhawan 43, Siraj 2-25) by seven wickets What was essentially a dead rubber looked like slipping away from Royal Challengers Bangalore at 55 for 3 halfway into a chase of 165 against Delhi Capitals. But
11:00 AM ET Kevin De Bruyne played with painkilling injections at the Euros. There has to be a better solution to avoid players being worn out due to the grueling club and country schedule. Meng Dingbo/Xinhua via Getty Images Last April, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola sounded the alarm, complaining that UEFA and FIFA were “killing”
10:09 AM ET England manager Gareth Southgate has rejected the claim that most of his players have not been vaccinated. Photo by Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images Gareth Southgate has defended his England players’ reluctance to clarify their COVID-19 vaccination status by claiming “medical confidentiality is being totally overlooked in a lot of areas.” The
5:00 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United are fully behind manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and will not be swayed by the “Ole Out” campaign on social media, according to the club’s football director John Murtough. Solskjaer has come under fire after a disappointing run of results that has seen United win just two of their
5:35 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona president Joan Laporta said he had hoped Lionel Messi would offer to play for free when it became apparent the club could not afford to keep him. Messi, 34, accepted a salary reduction of 50% but Barca were still unable to register him with LaLiga due to
11:51 AM ET Lionel Messi is bidding for a record-extending seventh men’s Ballon d’Or title and will have to beat competition from Cristiano Ronaldo after the pair were named among the 30 nominees for the 2021 award. Sam Mewis is the only United States women’s national team player to be nominated for the Ballon d’Or
Mumbai Indians 235 for 9 (Kishan 84, Suryakumar 82, Holder 4-52, Abhishek 2-4) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 193 for 8 (Pandey 69*, Roy 34, Abhishek 33, Bumrah 2-39) by 42 runs They gave the ball, and their chances at qualification for the play-offs, an almighty whack, but eventually, Mumbai Indians’ defence of their title ended in
12:28 PM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz and offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz will not have to spend the Hawkeyes‘ bye week answering questions from lawyers for Black former players who say they suffered discrimination, a federal judge ruled. U.S. Magistrate Judge Helen Adams granted a motion Thursday to