5:55 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The NFL has hired a law firm that includes former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to defend it and its teams in Brian Flores’ race discrimination lawsuit. Lynch, the attorney general in the latter part of the Obama administration, will work with Brad Karp, chairman at Paul,
6:11 PM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay playfully used the jubilation of Wednesday’s Super Bowl parade to coax the NFL’s best defensive player out of potential retirement, however faint those thoughts might have been in the first place. On a makeshift stage in front of the L.A. Coliseum, with the
6:52 PM ET Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and his Big Ten colleagues prefer to keep a nine-game league schedule, even if it limits the number of contests against teams from their alliance with the ACC and Pac-12. Smith, speaking Wednesday with reporters in Columbus, Ohio, said the Big Ten athletic directors “walked away”
5:43 PM ET Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has agreed to a new five-year contract that runs through the 2026 season, the school announced on Wednesday. The new deal gives Harbaugh a one-year extension with new terms from the contract he signed last January. The renewed commitment comes exactly two weeks after Harbaugh’s highly publicized Feb.
4:39 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods said he will be back playing golf on the PGA Tour; he just doesn’t know when. As Woods, 46, nears the one-year anniversary of the car wreck that nearly cost him his right leg and led to multiple surgeries, he said Wednesday that he’s making progress —
10:01 AM ET Luquinhas in action for Legia Warsaw in the Europa League. Olimpik/NurPhoto via Getty Images The New York Red Bulls have completed the transfer of Legia Warsaw attacking midfielder Luquinhas, sources tell ESPN. The Brazilian has signed three-year contract, plus a club option year that will make him a Designated Player. The player will
12:03 PM ET Rangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst has told ESPN that Erling Haaland is in the same bracket as Paris Saint-Germain‘s Kylian Mbappe as the Scottish champions wait to discover whether they will face the Borussia Dortmund striker in Thursday’s Europa League round-of-32 first-leg at Signal Iduna Park. Haaland, 21, returned to training on
4:58 PM ET Kingsley Coman scored a 90th-minute equaliser to help Bayern Munich to a late 1-1 draw away to FC Salzburg in the first-leg of their Champions League round-of-16 clash on Wednesday. Salzburg’s Chukwubuike Adamu came off the bench at the Red Bull Arena on 12 minutes to replace Noah Okafor, who was forced
1:18 PM ET Caitlin Murray Angel City FC, the new expansion team set to debut in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) this year, has added a few more celebrities to its star-studded ownership group — including the three-year-old daughter of NBA star Dwyane Wade and actress Gabrielle Union. Union and her three-year-old daughter, Kaavia
3:30 PM ET Associated Press Vlatko Andonovski earned $357,597 over his first full year as the United States women’s coach, less than 28% of the $1,291,539 that went to men’s coach Gregg Berhalter. The figures were revealed in the U.S. Soccer Federation’s tax filing for the year ending on March 31, 2021, which was released