9:56 AM ET Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said it is “not fair” to expect footballers to make political statements ahead of the World Cup in Qatar. Speaking at a ceremony where he received the Freedom of Liverpool award on Thursday, Klopp said he doesn’t like the “expectation” put on players. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga,
Month: November 2022
5:34 AM ET Adriana Garcia LaLiga president Javier Tebas has said it would be good for both Lionel Messi and Barcelona if the Argentina captain plays for his former club again. Messi, whose performances for Barca and Argentina won him seven Ballon d’Or awards, left after 21 years in August 2021 with the club struggling
8:05 AM ET AC Milan‘s Zlatan Ibrahimovic has questioned Kylian Mbappe‘s decision to stay at Paris Saint-Germain and warned him that “you are never bigger than a club.” Mbappe snubbed a move to Real Madrid to sign a three-year extension with the French champions in May and became the highest-paid player in world football, according
10:17 AM ET ESPN News Services The Chicago White Sox have hired Kansas City Royals bench coach Pedro Grifol to replace Hall of Famer Tony La Russa as their manager, it was made official Thursday. The 52-year-old Grifol will try to lift a team coming off a disappointing season. The White Sox finished second in
7:00 AM ET New York has seen athletes like Igor Shesterkin before. They come to the city heralded by years of hype. Their arrival marks a new era for their teams. Unfortunately, these young stars get chewed up and spit out by an unrelenting, impatient monster of a market. But some, like Shesterkin, exceed those
Jayden Seales, the young West Indies fast bowler, will join Sussex or the first three months of their 2023 season. The 21-year-old Seales will be available for both Championship and T20 matches from April. On his Test debut at the age of 19, against South Africa in June 2021, Seales made an immediate impact with
7:36 AM ET Eric MoodyESPN Close Former manager at a Fortune 100 financial services company, now living my dream creating fantasy and sports betting content about the NFL, NBA, and WNBA for ESPN. Read ESPN’s fantasy football Daily Notes every weekday to stay caught up on the news you need to know and get a
Nov 2, 2022 After a entree serving of Test rugby at the weekend, we’re set for the main course over three delicious sittings in November. From Edinburgh to Cardiff, London to Paris, and a few other cities in between, it really is smorgasbord of rugby action over the next few weeks. Read on for all
7:47 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Dmitry Bivol arrived in Las Vegas this May as an afterthought. “The Canelo Alvarez Show” was in town — and attracting all the attention. Bivol was the WBA light heavyweight champion, and Alvarez, boxing’s top star, already had a deal in place to face Gennadiy Golovkin in September for a
8:00 AM ET ESPN staff November is officially here and with it comes a top 5 matchup that has all the stakes a fan could ask for. Tennessee will travel to Georgia on Saturday in what should be one of the most highly anticipated SEC East games in recent history. What’s on the line? Oh,