10:13 AM ET Antonio Conte believes Tottenham Hotspur have been “penalised” for a “crazy” fixture schedule and urged club officials to be more robust in future discussions with the Premier League to avoid a repeat. Spurs return to the Champions League for the first time since 2019 with a home clash against Marseille on Wednesday,
Month: September 2022
9:53 AM ET Marseille‘s Eric Bailly has claimed he did not get a fair chance at Manchester United because the club favour English players. Bailly joined Marseille on loan this summer after falling out of favour at Old Trafford following his move from Villarreal in 2016. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, more (U.S.)
7:06 AM ET Paris Saint-Germain head coach Christophe Galtier and striker Kylian Mbappe faced backlash on Tuesday for laughing off a question about why the team took a private jet for a short trip to a game in Nantes last weekend. Mbappe burst out laughing and Galtier responded with a joke when asked at a
10:15 AM ET Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Kylian Mbappe has said French president Emmanuel Macron told him to stay at Paris Saint-Germain rather than move to Real Madrid this summer. Mbappe, 23, was on the brink of joining Madrid on a free transfer before a last-minute change of heart in May saw him sign a
7:26 AM ET Lindsey Horan has told ESPN the United States were not out for revenge when they beat Canada in the CONCACAF W Championship final but said they were desperate for victory against their longstanding rivals. The USWNT lifted the W Championship trophy with a 1-0 win against Canada in July, a year after
7:13 AM ET FIFA and UEFA have spent the past three years testing out a new artificial-intelligence-based semi-automated offside technology (SAOT), and now it’s ready to be rolled out in the Champions League. Although SAOT was used by FIFA at the Club World Cup in February, and also by UEFA in the Super Cup between
9:30 AM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Steve Sarkisian hasn’t forgotten, and he won’t forget. There’s no way he could, especially not this week with Nick Saban and the No. 1 Crimson Tide coming to town. To most in the college football world, Saban is the guy who has led Alabama to a staggering six national
9:00 AM ET For the first time in what feels like a month-of-Sundays, we’re in position to excitedly look forward to the unfolding of a regular regular season, uninhibited and uninterrupted, as was routine pre-March 2020. (Fingers crossed, knock wood, salt over the shoulder and all that.) Along with allowing ourselves to cautiously exhale, we’re
9:13 AM ET Letting loose at a downtown Indianapolis nightspot after a long day at the NFC scouting combine in March, Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur found himself in a conversation about what was next on his offseason schedule. Free agency was quickly approaching. Offseason workouts were scheduled to begin in a little more
9:02 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN Five of the last six UFC pay-per-view fight cards have been headlined by not just one championship bout but a pair of them. That’s a lot of gold and glory on the line. By contrast, UFC 279 will have not even a single title contest. What Saturday’s event in Las