8:40 AM ET Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland, Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham are all first-team players. INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images Borussia Dortmund have emerged as the best club in Europe for young players to earn their stripes, according to the latest study from the CIES Football Observatory. The CIES has formulated its data by examining
Apr 11, 2021 According to SP+, the worst team in the Sun Belt East — in this case, Georgia Southern — would be the best team in the West. That tells you most of what you need to know about the current balance of power in #FunBelt country. Thanks both to the top-20 potential of
7:45 AM ET No DeVonta Smith, no Mac Jones … no problem. Alabama lost plenty of talent to the NFL, but it’s still the best team in college football and the national championship favorite, according to ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI) and the Allstate Playoff Predictor. The Crimson Tide have a 31% chance to defend
7:00 AM ET J.T. Realmuto sat in limbo this past offseason. A star free agent, at a premium position, he was waiting patiently for his team to show the kind of interest that would be required to bring him back on a new deal. The winter’s new darling team, the New York Mets, was dangling
7:43 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is an editor for ESPN, including NFL and NHL coverage. He’s a native of upstate New York. The 2021 NHL trade deadline did not have the high volume of trades that characterized the past few seasons. But some significant players did change teams, including Taylor Hall to
6:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Want to generate a passionate reaction from New England Patriots followers? Just say the name Cam Newton. What a lightning rod. No player in recent memory has sparked such extreme reactions on both ends of the spectrum: “He’s done!” vs. “He never had a fair chance!” Patriots coach Bill
8:24 AM ET While the world waits for Anthony Joshua-Tyson Fury, Jose Ramirez-Josh Taylor and Teofimo Lopez-George Kambosos, the boxing spotlight will be placed on the sideshows as celebrities and former champions are making their way into the squared circle. There is little doubt that boxing purists hate what’s on tap this weekend, but the
8:12 AM ET UFC 261 on April 24 will be the first time Zhang Weili enters the Octagon since a capacity crowd at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas roared in appreciation of her first title defense on March 7, 2020. It will also mark the first time a packed house will be on hand
News “People are starting to realise that uncapped bowlers are good enough to take responsibilities of death bowling” For Harshal Patel, being asked to bowl at the death in a T20 game is to be in a “privileged position”, one that he says he has worked hard to earn after being a bit of a
3:11 AM ET Stefan Uersfeld Bobby Wood will join Real Salt Lake for the 2021 season. Photo by Christian Kaspar-Bartke/Getty Images United States men’s national team forward Bobby Wood will join Real Salt Lake ahead of the start of the 2021 Major League Soccer season. Hamburg SV have terminated his contract to allow the attacker to