11:47 AM ET Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic has been banned for eight games by the English Football Association (FA) after pushing referee Chris Kavanagh in his team’s ill-tempered FA Cup quarterfinal loss to Manchester United last month. Mitrovic received a straight red card for his actions, but the FA previously said that the standard three-match
Month: April 2023
8:46 AM ET Chelsea are considering between five and seven different managers to replace Graham Potter as head coach, although Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi is not in the running, sources have told ESPN. Potter was sacked on Sunday after less than seven months in charge as the first managerial appointment of the Todd Boehly/Clearlake
5:57 AM ET Lionel Messi is unlikely to reach an agreement with Paris Saint-Germain to extend his stay at the club, sources told ESPN. French outlet L’Equipe were first to report the story. Negotiations between the two parties are at a standstill, casting major doubts over the World Cup winner’s future in Paris, according to
12:02 PM ET The Las Vegas Raiders have signed quarterback Brian Hoyer to a two-year deal, it was announced Tuesday. Earlier this offseason, the Raiders signed quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to a three-year, $72.75 million contract on March 17. Las Vegas also has the No. 7 pick in this month’s draft. Hoyer was released by the
9:00 AM ET LONDON — Graham Potter’s arrival at Chelsea last September was supposed to herald a new era of stability at the club after a period of unprecedented turbulence. Instead, co-controlling owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital’s Behdad Eghbali are looking for a new head coach less than seven months after making their first
AUGUSTA, Ga. — WHEN SCOTT SCHEFFLER showed up in Dr. Troy Van Biezen’s office in Dallas one day in fall 2014, he was panicked. Scheffler’s son, Scottie, had been one of the best junior golfers in the world, but was struggling to even hit a ball straight as a freshman at the University of Texas.
8:00 AM ET On a cloudy day in early January, Aaron Judge walked into the Yankees’ player development complex in Tampa, Florida. Hitting coach Dillon Lawson and infielder DJ LeMahieu were already working in the batting cages inside. They greeted Judge and congratulated him on the contract he’d signed a few weeks before, guaranteeing him
10:27 AM ET Associated Press The European tour has won a key court case in the ongoing dispute with LIV Golf that allows the tour to fine players competing on the Saudi-funded rival league without permission, according to a London newspaper. The Times of London reported that Sport Resolutions, a three-member arbitration panel that heard
7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Back on March 16, we considered the wild-card playoff chances of the Nashville Predators. At the time, they were four points behind the Winnipeg Jets and six points behind the Seattle Kraken. Two
6:55 AM ET The 2023 NFL draft is coming up fast, and the first-round picture is becoming clearer and clearer. But why stop there? I’m going two rounds deep in my newest mock draft, projecting selections for the opening 63 picks. There has already been a handful of trades involving picks in Round 1 or