Month: February 2023

11:36 AM ET ESPN News Services Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora said he agrees with Major League Baseball’s new rules but offered one notable quip on the first day of spring training. “The bases, they’re the bases,” Cora told reporters Tuesday. “Wait ’til you see them — they look like a pizza box, to
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11:51 AM ET Associated Press Law enforcement agents confiscated over 600 fake championship rings across four major U.S. professional sports leagues and the NCAA from a South Carolina memorabilia store as part of a seizure of counterfeit merchandise, the South Carolina Secretary of State announced. The counterfeit goods could have fetched as much as $15
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12:08 PM ET Houston‘s Shannon Dawson is set to be named Miami‘s offensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN, completing coach Mario Cristobal’s coordinator hires. Last week, the Hurricanes hired Lance Guidry to be their defensive coordinator after Kevin Steele left for Alabama. Dawson has spent the past four seasons at Houston under Dana Holgorsen and
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10:17 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — New Carolina Panthers coach Frank Reich continued to surround himself with experience on Tuesday, reaching agreement with former Indianapolis Colts and Detroit Lions head coach Jim Caldwell as a senior assistant. Caldwell, 68, joins a staff that includes former Panthers and Houston Texans coach Dom Capers, 72, who was
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10:58 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens hired Georgia offensive coordinator Todd Monken as their new offensive coordinator on Tuesday in the team’s first major move to get its declining offense back on track. Georgia turned to a familiar face in a familiar role after Monken’s departure, as the team promoted analyst
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9:35 AM ET Grimsby have been barred from taking inflatable fish mascots to the South Coast. Mark Leech/Offside/Offside via Getty Images Grimsby Town fans have been told their iconic Harry Haddock inflatable mascots will not be welcome at their forthcoming FA Cup fifth-round tie away to Premier League Southampton. Fans of the fourth-tier club, nicknamed the
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7:47 AM ET Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Carlo Ancelotti said Real Madrid‘s Brazilian players have been teasing him about reports linking the Italian coach with taking charge of the Brazil national team. On Friday the Brazilian Football Confederation denied an ESPN Brasil report that Ancelotti had given the OK to becoming Brazil’s new coach, taking
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8:52 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Pep Guardiola has apologised to Steven Gerrard after bringing up the infamous slip which cost Liverpool the Premier League title during his impassioned defence of Manchester City last week. Speaking at a news conference on Friday, Guardiola said sarcastically he “didn’t know if we are responsible for Steven Gerrard slipping”
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