Month: January 2025

Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Jan 21, 2025, 05:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Xabi Alonso has said he is “very calm” despite being linked to taking charge at Real Madrid, with speculation over the future of Carlo Ancelotti. Alonso, who spent five years as a Real Madrid player and also began his coaching career at
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Rob Dawson, CorrespondentJan 21, 2025, 06:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Manchester City have completed the signing of defender Vitor Reis from Palmeiras, the club confirmed on Tuesday. The deal is worth €35 million ($36.2m) for the 19-year-old Brazil youth international. He’s signed a four-and-a-half year contract until 2029. Reis is the second summer signing
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Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Jan 21, 2025, 08:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Kylian Mbappé has admitted he was “thinking a lot” as he struggled to adapt to life at Real Madrid, saying he “couldn’t do any worse” before turning his form around in recent weeks. Mbappé now looks close to peak form, having scored
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Rodrigo Faez, Madrid correspondentJan 21, 2025, 07:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Carlo Ancelotti has denied that he has made his mind up to leave Real Madrid this summer, saying “I won’t decide my departure date from this club.” Spanish radio station Onda Cero had reported on Monday that Ancelotti — whose contract runs until
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Associated Press Jan 21, 2025, 03:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions TOKYO — Shohei Ohtani and his wife, Mamiko Tanaka, are expecting their first child. Ohtani’s Los Angeles Dodgers teammate Mookie Betts has some advice. “He should get his sleep now,” Betts said, speaking Tuesday in Tokyo. “Because when the baby comes he won’t get
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Associated Press Jan 21, 2025, 03:04 AM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW ORLEANS — CJ McCollum highlighted a 45-point performance with 3-pointers and reverse layups in the clutch. Dejounte Murray‘s relentless pressure on both ends of the court left him one rebound short of a triple-double. And the New Orleans Pelicans pulled off the largest
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Chris Herring, ESPN Senior WriterJan 21, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ON CHRISTMAS DAY, with his team down by three late in the third quarter, New York Knicks wing Mikal Bridges decided he wasn’t going to be denied. Seeing teammate Deuce McBride launch a long jumper, Bridges ran to the block to get
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Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterJan 21, 2025, 06:00 AM ET Close Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 Open Extended Reactions KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Smith played with hundreds, maybe thousands, of teammates during his 14-year career as an NFL quarterback. None, he said, was quite like Travis
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