7:30 AM ET ESPN staff After an offseason spent constantly ranking and reranking college football players on NIL deals and transfer portal moves, the impending kickoff of actual football games means that the time has come to rank players on their actual football abilities. Not by unit, conference or where they might or might not
3:40 AM BST ESPN staff Ian Foster has been retained as All Blacks coach following a New Zealand Rugby [NZR] board meeting on Wednesday. Foster’s position has been the subject of huge speculation following an inglorious start to 2022, which included a 2-1 series loss to Ireland on home soil. But the weekend’s 35-23 victory
4:42 AM ET Cristiano Ronaldo has said he keeps a notebook of what he says are “lies” from the media about his Manchester United future amid speculation over his potential departure. Ronaldo has made headlines this summer after requesting to leave Old Trafford to play in the Champions League, a year after he returned to
8:37 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com MASON, Ohio — Serena Williams lost in the opening-round match of the penultimate tournament of her career Tuesday, but was still given a hero’s send-off following the 6-4, 6-0 defeat to Emma Raducanu at the Western & Southern Open. Moments after losing, the 2021 US Open champion was given a
In 2025, the PSL will become the first T20 league to overlap with the IPL because of Pakistan’s packed international season. Starting November 2024, Pakistan have away tours of Australia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and New Zealand, before returning home for a tri-series in February 2025, followed by the ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan that ends
4:00 AM ET Ian DarkeESPN.com writer Close Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is ESPN lead soccer voice in the United States. He has covered the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League since 1982, and has one of the world’s most recognizable soccer voices.
2:36 AM BST Corey Norman’s rugby league career could be over with the former Queensland State of Origin player being given a lengthy Super League ban for “inappropriate contact”. Norman has been hit with an eight-game ban after being found guilty of intentionally placing a hand between the buttocks of Warrington’s Oliver Holmes during a
1:18 AM ET Tim Tszyu’s undisputed world title fight in January will also serve as a reunion with father Kostya. The Australian boxer, set to clash with champion Jermell Charlo for all four super-welterweight belts in Las Vegas, hasn’t seen the former undisputed super-lightweight champion for almost three years. Russia-based Kostya has watched from afar
10:20 PM ET Patrick Reed is the latest member of LIV Golf to turn from the course to the courts, as the former Masters champion filed a defamation lawsuit against Golf Channel and commentator Brandel Chamblee on Tuesday. The claim central to Reed’s complaint is that Chamblee and Golf Channel conspired with the PGA Tour
11:40 PM ET NEW YORK — The issues keep piling up for the New York Yankees, as closer Clay Holmes appears headed to the injured list because of tightness in his back. “I have stuff going on with my back and trying to figure out the best way to go about it is,” Holmes said.