Month: February 2024

Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterFeb 16, 2024, 02:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions IRVINE, Calif. — Go, brother. Junior Tafa will step in on just one-day notice to fight Marcos Rogerio de Lima in a heavyweight bout at UFC 298 on Saturday. The man Tafa is replacing? His own brother Justin Tafa, who withdrew from
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Open Extended Reactions Ange Postecoglou has dismissed speculation linking him with the Liverpool managerial job and said he is only just getting started at Tottenham. Rumours circulated this week that the 58-year-old may be on Liverpool’s shortlist to replace Jurgen Klopp, who announced last month that he would end his nine-year tenure at Anfield when
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ESPN News Services Feb 16, 2024, 02:43 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Juventus said on Friday their net loss widened to €95.1 million ($102m) in the first half of its 2023-24 fiscal year as their ban from lucrative European competition this season over financial irregularities weighed on the Italian club’s revenue. The result compares with
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Charlotte Gibson, ESPNFeb 16, 2024, 12:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Nike has signed 13-year-old soccer phenom McKenna “Mak” Whitham to a name, image and likeness deal. Whitham becomes the youngest women’s soccer player and youngest athlete in any sport to sign an NIL deal with Nike. “It means everything to me,” Whitham told ESPN.
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Kevin Seifert, ESPN Staff WriterFeb 16, 2024, 02:44 PM ET Close Kevin Seifert is a staff writer who covers the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL at ESPN. Kevin has covered the NFL for over 20 years, joining ESPN in 2008. He was previously a beat reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Washington Times. He
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Greg Wyshynski, ESPNFeb 16, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Open Extended Reactions The NHL is returning to “Big City Greens,” this time using two types of puck and player tracking technology to bring the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins into the animated world. The second “NHL Big City
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Field Level Media Feb 16, 2024, 02:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Nashville Predators forward Michael McCarron on Friday signed a two-year, $1.8 million contract extension that will begin in the 2024-25 season. McCarron, 28, has recorded a career-high-tying seven goals to go along with six assists in 42 games this season. The 6-foot-6, 232-pound
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Dan Murphy, ESPN Staff WriterFeb 16, 2024, 02:26 PM ET Close Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Open Extended Reactions The Atlantic Coast Conference asked a Florida judge on Friday to press pause on a lawsuit Florida State filed, which claims the conference is breaching its
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