Cristiano Ronaldo scored an important breakthrough goal for Al Nassr to spark his team’s 3-1 Asian Champions League rally over Istiklol on Monday at Al Awal Park. Home favourites Al Nassr dominated the first half, but were impossibly kept off the scoresheet in the opening 45 minutes and found themselves down 1-0 to their Tajik foes
William Saliba said Arsenal‘s Champions League preparations have not been unduly disrupted by the team’s travel problems in getting to Lens. The Gunners were due to leave London at 4.15 p.m. on Monday, but were more than five hours late departing after bad weather in the Luton area delayed their flight to Lens. – Stream
ESPN News Services Oct 2, 2023, 02:10 PM ET Al-Ittihad’s Asian Champions League match with Iran’s Sepahan was called off on Monday after the Saudi team refused to leave their dressing room due to a statue of an assassinated Iranian general being placed at the entrance to the pitch. The game was postponed by officials
Connor O’Halloran Oct 2, 2023, 07:01 PM ET LONDON — There was a point on Monday, as a Dominos pizza truck parked up next to Craven Cottage in the build-up to the game, when it became clear Chelsea‘s woeful form in front of goal was beginning to transform from a persistent narrative to a point
Associated Press Oct 2, 2023, 06:09 PM ET NEW YORK — The average time of a nine-inning major league game dropped to 2 hours, 40 minutes in the first year of the pitch clock, a 24-minute decrease in a season of change that resulted in a spike in batting average and the most stolen bases
Associated Press Oct 2, 2023, 05:07 PM ET ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The mother of Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Josh Lowe and Texas Rangers first baseman Nathaniel Lowe will not make the trip to Tropicana Field for this week’s AL wild-card series featuring her sons because she is battling cancer and undergoing chemotherapy. Younger brother
Oct 2, 2023, 04:03 PM ET Jim Caple, a noted baseball writer who spent 17 years at ESPN, died Sunday, his wife wrote on social media. He was 61. Caple covered 20 World Series for ESPN, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He also covered a half-dozen Olympic Games. He closed his career
Associated Press Oct 2, 2023, 03:30 PM ET Former major league pitcher Trevor Bauer and a woman who accused him of beating and sexually assaulting her in 2021 have settled their legal dispute, Bauer’s attorneys said Monday. “Both of their respective claims have been withdrawn with prejudice, effective today,” attorneys Jon Fetterolf and Shawn Holley
Bradford Doolittle, ESPN Staff WriterOct 2, 2023, 04:55 PM ET Close Sports reporter, Kansas City Star, 2002-09 Writer, Baseball, Baseball Prospectus Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus Member, Baseball Writers Association of America Member, Professional Basketball Writers Association MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Brandon Woodruff will miss the team’s NL wild-card series against the Arizona Diamondbacks due
ESPN News Services Oct 2, 2023, 07:11 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — Phil Nevin will not return as manager of the Los Angeles Angels, the team announced Monday. The move comes a day after the club finished the season at 73-89. The Angels didn’t schedule an end-of-the-season news conference with general manager Perry Minasian immediately