5:01 PM ET CHICAGO — Tony La Russa is stepping down as Chicago White Sox manager because of health concerns that kept him out of the dugout for the final five weeks of the season, he announced in a statement released Monday. La Russa, who will turn 78 on Tuesday, hasn’t managed a game since
7:05 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Cavaliers starting forward Evan Mobley will miss time with a sprained right ankle suffered during practice, an injury that could sideline him for the start of the regular season in two weeks. Mobley injured the ankle during a workout on Saturday. The team said Monday that an MRI
5:01 PM ET Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns was hospitalized last week with a throat infection that caused him trouble breathing and forced him to be on bed rest for days, sources told ESPN. Towns spoke to the media Monday for the first time since falling ill and said his weight was down to 231
1:01 PM ET The independent investigation into player abuse in women’s professional soccer found a long list of failures by National Women’s Soccer League coaches and executives, as well as the United States Soccer Federation itself. “Our investigation has revealed a league in which abuse and misconduct — verbal and emotional abuse and sexual misconduct
5:02 PM ET Leicester City‘s James Maddison scored two first-half goals as they beat promoted Nottingham Forest 4-0 on Monday to move off the bottom of the table with their first Premier League win of the season. The pressure, for now, is off Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers, who looked and sounded like someone who could
2:08 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez called for Lionel Messi to be left in peace as the Paris Saint-Germain forward continues to be linked with a return to Camp Nou. Messi, 35, is out of contract with PSG at the end of the season and Barca vice president Eduard Romeu
12:15 PM ET Inter Miami CF and former Argentina international forward Gonzalo Higuain announced his retirement on Monday, concluding a 17-year career that saw him play for some of the world’s biggest clubs including Real Madrid, Juventus, AC Milan and Chelsea. Higuain, 34, will play out the rest of the season with Miami, which is
4:34 PM ET U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone said Monday that the findings of the investigation by Sally Q. Yates are just a “first step” in changing an environment that allowed the abuse of professional women players to take place unchecked for many years. The findings of the USSF-commissioned Yates report, which were
3:27 PM ET Cam Talbot will miss five to seven weeks with an upper-body injury, as the Ottawa Senators are forced to reshuffle their goaltending before the NHL regular season begins. Talbot, 35, was acquired by the Senators in July from the Minnesota Wild for goalie Filip Gustavsson. Talbot is entering his 10th NHL season,
West Indies have dropped Shimron Hetmyer from their World Cup squad after the batter missed a “rescheduled” flight to Australia. CWI said the decision was taken “unanimously” by the selection panel, which also decided to name Shamarh Brooks as Hetmyer’s replacement. Most of the West Indies squad had flown to Australia in different groups, following