12:46 PM ET Leeds United manager Jesse Marsch has been given a one-match touchline ban and fined £10,000 ($11,500) for an altercation with officials during his side’s defeat at Brentford this month, the Football Association (FA) said on Thursday. Marsch, 48, was sent off in the second half of the 5-2 loss on Sept. 3
Month: September 2022
2:36 PM ET Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first goal of the season and first-ever goal in the Europa League as Manchester United beat Sheriff Tiraspol 2-0 in Moldova on Thursday. Ronaldo, who has not started in the Premier League since United’s 4-0 loss to Brentford on Aug. 13, made no mistake when converting a 39th-minute
3:43 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Erik ten Hag said Cristiano Ronaldo “needed a goal” after the Manchester United striker finally got his first of the season against Sheriff Tiraspol. Ronaldo scored a penalty in the 2-0 win in Moldova as Ten Hag’s side got their first points on the board in the Europa League. –
1:48 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones didn’t practice on Thursday because of an illness, according to the team. Jones’ illness currently isn’t expected to impact his availability for Sunday’s road game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, according to sources. But it also isn’t ideal on a day the Patriots generally
2:50 PM BST MELBOURNE — Speechless. There is no other word to describe what happened at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne on Thursday night as one of the most thrilling Bledisloe Cup Test matches ever staged descended into near farcical scenes — and the All Blacks broke Wallaby hearts after the final siren. Even before French
1:00 PM ET The Colorado Rockies released veteran right-hander Jhoulys Chacin on Thursday. The 34-year-old pitcher, in his 14th major league season, was 4-2 with a 7.61 ERA in 35 appearances this season. He had agreed to a $1.25 million deal for 2022. Chacín is 85-91 with a 4.18 ERA in 227 starts and 111
1:19 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford have agreed to all material terms for a fight for the undisputed welterweight championship, an event targeted for Nov. 19 in Las Vegas, multiple sources tell ESPN. However, the deal has not been signed as the parties’ lawyers clean up legal language in the
2:05 PM ET Miami will be without leading receiver Xavier Restrepo when the No. 13 Hurricanes visit No. 24 Texas A&M on Saturday. Restrepo is sidelined indefinitely with a foot injury, though he confirmed to ESPN that he expects to return this season. He leads the No. 13 Hurricanes in targets (12), catches (11) and
12:46 PM ET The UFC has rebooked a middleweight main event between Jared Cannonier and Sean Strickland for Dec. 17. The 185-pound contest was originally supposed to headline a UFC Fight Night on Oct. 15 in Las Vegas, but Strickland was forced to pull out of that date because of finger surgery. UFC officials confirmed
11:42 AM ET The National Football League and the German Bundesliga (DFL) announced an agreement on Thursday that will see two of the world’s most successful sporting operations collaborate to help grow business in their respective markets. Having been informally sharing expertise in various areas since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NFL and