4:56 AM ET England’s Euro 2022 victory helped to spearhead a seismic change in women’s football. Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The UK government will provide a £600 million package to create equal school opportunities for girls, the English Football Association (FA) announced on Wednesday. The announcement, which coincided with International Women’s Day, was the
Month: March 2023
5:53 AM ET Arsenal could be hit with their fourth Football Association (FA) charge of the season after the governing body are investigating the chaotic scenes following Saturday’s dramatic winning goal against Bournemouth, sources have told ESPN. Substitute Reiss Nelson struck in the 97th-minute to seal a stunning 3-2 comeback win from 2-0 down, sparking
6:00 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Prosecutors are seeking corruption charges against Barcelona and their former president Josep Maria Bartomeu following the unearthing of payments to the former vice president of the refereeing committee, judicial sources have confirmed to Spanish news agency EFE. Until now, former referee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira had been the
5:30 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent It was after a 4-0 defeat at Everton in April 2019 that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer suggested it was the end of the road for some of the Manchester United players he had inherited from Jose Mourinho. Appointed caretaker manager in December and then permanent boss three months later, Solskjaer was
Mar 4, 2023 ESPN and Reuters Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll qualified eighth for Sunday’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix and then revealed he had broken a big toe as well as both wrists in a cycling accident two weeks ago. The 24-year-old Canadian said the last week had been “pretty insane”. “If someone had offered me
4:52 AM ET Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll detailed on Tuesday his successful battle to be fit for the start of the Formula One season with broken wrists after a cycle accident and said his doctors feared initially he would miss the opening races. The Canadian finished sixth in Sunday’s Bahrain opener despite injuries that
It has been a frustrating wait for Bumrah, who has attempted to make a comeback more than once since suffering the back injury last August, which ruled him out of the Asia Cup. Initially, the injury had not seemed too serious as Bumrah was named in India’s T20 World Cup squad on September 12. To
11:58 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Pau Gasol, the perfect complementary player to Kobe Bryant, was paid the best compliment possible by his former team: The Los Angeles Lakers retired his jersey. “I mean life goes by pretty fast, right? In the blink of an eye, you can be a kid playing basketball in your
11:26 PM ET ESPN News Services TAMPA, Fla. — Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Tony DeAngelo received a major penalty and a game misconduct on Tuesday night, after spearing Tampa Bay Lightning forward Corey Perry below the belt. DeAngelo entered a players scrum in front of the Tampa Bay net, led with his stick and speared Perry,
7:04 PM ET Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jude Bellingham called Chelsea‘s retaken penalty, which knocked his team out of the Champions League on Tuesday, a “joke.” The round-of-16 second leg at Stamford Bridge was finely poised at 1-1 on aggregate with the Blues winning 1-0 on the night through a Raheem Sterling goal when Ben Chilwell‘s