Month: April 2023

12:38 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona will shut down the television channel Barca TV at the end of the season, the club said in a statement on Thursday. Sources told ESPN the cost-cutting act was related to making savings across the board to free up money to invest in the playing squad, although
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12:47 PM ET Associated Press Nearly half the candidates failed a new FIFA exam to work as a player agent in football, the governing body said Thursday. Only 1,962 people — 52% of the 3,800 candidates worldwide — passed last week’s test to get a license that will be mandatory to work in transfer and
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2:33 PM ET Associated Press MADRID — After another impressive victory at the Madrid Open, Mirra Andreeva patiently took photos with some fans who looked young enough to be her classmates in high school. Moments earlier, the 15-year-old Russian had been raising her arms by the net to celebrate her win over a top-20 opponent.
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11:53 AM ET Jake Paul and his promotions team are launching a new boxing series called Most Valuable Prospects that will highlight top up-and-coming fighters. The series will begin with a card on May 26 in Orlando, Florida, and it will be headlined by rising star Ashton Sylve, officials told ESPN on Thursday. There will
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12:14 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Joe Torre has won the third Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Baseball Digest. A star player during 18 major league seasons and longtime manager for the New York Yankees and four other teams, Torre was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2014. He was honored Thursday
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1:31 PM ET The Atlanta Braves have been celebrating home runs with an oversized hat this season, but MLB is putting a stop to that. Major League Baseball has told the Braves they can no longer sport the oversized baseball cap to celebrate home runs after the league heard complaints from New Era, the manufacturer
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12:16 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Robeisy Ramirez will make the first defense of his WBO featherweight title vs. Satoshi Shimizu on July 25 in Tokyo, promoter Top Rank announced on Thursday. The 126-pound title bout will serve as chief support on ESPN+ for the highly anticipated showdown between Stephen Fulton and Naoya Inoue for Fulton’s
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