7:42 AM ET Black Lives Matter UK have supported the claim made by Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha that taking a knee before each football match is losing its impact. Players across all divisions in England have taken a knee since football’s return post-coronavirus lockdown in an attempt to show solidarity with the fight against
6:32 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester City have not opened transfer talks with Lionel Messi and will wait for him to decide his Barcelona future before considering formal negotiations, sources have told ESPN. City chiefs have been angered by reports the club have already tabled an offer to Messi ahead of a possible free transfer
8:30 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has told Manchester City they haven’t won anything yet despite opening up a 10-point lead in the Premier League title race. Buoyed by an impressive 4-0 win over Real Sociedad in the Europa League on Thursday, Solskjaer said Manchester United are ready to push Pep Guardiola’s team
1:29 PM ET Red Star Belgrade apologised for ethnic abuse aimed at AC Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic during their Europa League clash on Thursday. The two sides met in the Serbian capital and Ibrahimovic, who is a Swedish national of Bosnian origin, was the victim of abuse from the sections of the home crowd. A
8:11 AM ET Thomas Tuchel has said he wants Christian Pulisic to stay at Chelsea but admitted “no decisions” have yet been taken over the club’s summer plans. The USMNT international has only started in the FA Cup fifth-round win at Barnsley on Feb. 11 during Tuchel’s six-game tenure. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on
12:07 PM ET Eduardo Rodriguez felt the effects of COVID-19 firsthand, missing the entirety of the 2020 season after being diagnosed with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart linked to the coronavirus. An offseason later, Rodriguez is ready to take his spot at the top of the Boston Red Sox rotation, feeling the way he
10:00 AM ET Last week, I ranked the top 100 prospects and all 30 farm systems heading into the 2021 season. Now it’s time to go deeper with my team-by-team rankings, wrapping up with the National League following Thursday’s American League lists. A quick refresher on a key term you’ll see throughout the team lists:
9:33 AM ET Lionel Messi is one of the best to ever play the game, and he has three clubs to choose from when his contract expires this summer. ESPN Illustration Lionel Messi needs little introduction: he’ll go down in history as one of the best to ever play soccer, with six Ballons d’Ors to his
11:26 AM GMT Ireland’s Caelan Doris is unlikely to return for the remainder of the Six Nations after coach Andy Farrell said the Leinster back-rower would be out for the “foreseeable future” because of concussion symptoms. Doris, 22, had been named in the initial 37-man squad for the tournament but was withdrawn after reporting symptoms
8:10 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim The sport of mixed martial arts has evolved through the years to the point where nowadays most professional fighters, especially those at or near the top of the heap, are proficient at mixing together an array of combative styles. But when the sport was young and drawing its athletes from