ESPN News Services Sep 15, 2023, 12:06 PM ET Inter Miami CF star Lionel Messi didn’t travel with the team for Saturday’s road game against Atlanta United FC, a source told ESPN Argentina. Messi uncharacteristically left Argentina‘s World Cup qualifying win last week over Ecuador before the final whistle, and although he did make Wednesday’s
Month: September 2023
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterSep 16, 2023, 12:16 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Nebraska tight end Arik Gilbert was arrested Friday in Georgia on suspicion of burglary, his second arrest in the past month. According to police records in Lumpkin County, Georgia, Gilbert is facing charges
Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterSep 16, 2023, 12:15 AM ET Mark Stoops and Kentucky scored two big recruiting victories for the price of one on Friday night, as twin brothers Jacob Smith and Jerod Smith Jr. decided to switch their commitments from Michigan. The additions of Jacob (No. 97 overall in the 2024 ESPN 300)
Mike Coppinger, ESPNSep 15, 2023, 10:16 PM ET Emanuel Navarrete will defend the WBO junior lightweight title against Robson Conceicao on Nov. 16 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, it was announced on Friday’s “Top Rank on ESPN” broadcast. The fight, which will be Navarrete’s third of 2023, will serve as the chief-support bout to
Sep 5, 2023, 07:17 PM The All Blacks got back to winning ways in some style at the World Cup on Friday by running in 11 tries in a 71-3 hammering of a courageous but outclassed Namibia side to revive their Pool A campaign. Stung by their loss to France in the tournament curtain-raiser last
Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 10:36 PM ET BRISTOL, Tenn. — Justin Allgaier earned a spot in the second round of the Xfinity Series playoffs with a win Friday night in the opening race at Bristol Motor Speedway. It was Allgaier’s second career victory at Bristol — the first was in 2010 — and salvaged
Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 10:22 PM ET NAPA. Calif. — Justin Thomas committed to a driver change, tinkered a little with his swing and got immediate results with a 5-under 67 that left him four strokes off the pace Friday in the Fortinet Championship. It was exactly what the former top-ranked player needed after
Sep 15, 2023, 01:59 PM ET The San Francisco Giants activated outfielder Michael Conforto from the 10-day injured list and optioned rookie infielder Casey Schmitt to Triple-A Sacramento on Friday. Conforto, 30, has been out since straining his left hamstring while making a catch in right field Aug. 23 at Philadelphia. He is batting .251/.343/.405
Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 09:30 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Bob Melvin showed up at the Oakland Coliseum before 11 a.m. Friday ahead of a night game and began his old routine of running the Coliseum bleachers — taking 21 minutes to complete the lower bowl stairs just as he has done for years.
ESPN News Services Sep 15, 2023, 09:17 PM ET PITTSBURGH — New York Yankees reliever Anthony Misiewicz was struck on the head by a line drive off the bat of Pittsburgh’s Ji Hwan Bae and left the game on Friday night. The Yankees said Misiewicz was “alert and oriented” and was transported to Allegheny General