The return of club football coincided with the real Lionel Messi standing up, inspiring Barcelona to a 2-0 win over Espanyol with a brace, maintaining a 10-point gap at the top of the table. Zinedine Zidane‘s Real Madrid were almost embarrassed by bottom-placed Huesca, Karim Benzema‘s 89th-minute goal saw them pinch it 3-2. Liverpool opened up a
1:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Shortstop Xander Bogaerts and the Boston Red Sox have agreed to a six-year extension, the team announced Monday. The deal is worth $132 million, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal, which was first reported Sunday as being close by Boston radio station WEEI, includes the $12 million the
9:12 PM ET Shortstop Xander Bogaerts and the Boston Red Sox are finalizing a seven-year, $132 million contract extension, league sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal, which was first reported as close by Boston radio station WEEI, includes the $12 million Bogaerts was scheduled to make this season, then $120 million over the final
Steve Nicol and Shaka Hislop contextualize Lionel Messi’s dominance after the Barcelona star reached 40 goals for the 10th straight season. Lionel Messi reached 40 goals in all competitions for the 10th straight year, in Barcelona’s 2-0 win over Catalan rivals Espanyol. Pope Francis has said his Argentinian compatriot Lionel Messi is not “God” yet
9:10 PM ET Associated Press BILOXI, Miss. — Scott Parel made a 12-foot par putt to match Kevin Sutherland on the fifth hole of a playoff before play was suspended because of darkness Sunday night in the PGA Tour Champions’ Rapiscan Systems Classic. They will finish Monday morning at Fallen Oak. Sutherland, the second-round leader,
12:51 AM ET Through four games of the season, Boston Red Sox pitchers are enduring one of the worst starts for a staff in recent memory, but manager Alex Cora has no regrets about lightening his staff’s load during spring training. “I didn’t rethink about it last year, you saw what happened. It was the
8:41 PM ET Through four games of the season, Boston Red Sox pitchers are enduring one of the worst starts for a staff in recent memory. Just five months after winning the World Series, the Red Sox lost three of four to the Seattle Mariners from Thursday through Sunday while allowing 34 runs — tied
7:55 PM ET Arms Runner became the 23rd horse to die at Santa Anita since the start of racing season on Dec. 26 after falling on the dirt crossover portion of the track Sunday. Arms Runner was competing in the $100,000 San Simeon Stakes, the feature race of the day, when he appeared to injure
7:29 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Roger Federer won his 101st career singles title at the Miami Open on Sunday. The kind of performance the Swiss champion put on makes you wonder if it wouldn’t be more accurate to say he started working on his second hundred titles here this week. There were few
7:21 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Los Angeles Lakers coach Luke Walton said that his star player, LeBron James, wanted to finish out the season, but the team convinced him otherwise. The Lakers announced this weekend that James would be held out of the final six games to allow his strained left groin to fully