8:50 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman has said it wasn’t helpful for the club’s acting president Carles Tusquets to say that Lionel Messi should have been sold last summer. Tusquets, who is in charge of the managing committee running Barca until a new president is elected on Jan. 24, said
8:00 AM ET Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho has said the Premier League could be “affected” by the Manchester clubs having a game in hand during the second half of the season. Manchester City and Manchester United missed the opening weekend of the campaign after it was agreed by all 20 clubs at a summer Premier
6:16 AM ET Patrick Vieira has been sacked as Nice head coach after a poor run of form, the club announced on Friday. The French club were dumped out of the Europa League group stages after a 3-2 defeat at home to Bayer Leverkusen on Thursday. – Insider Notebook: Man United give Solskjaer backing Nice
6:54 AM ET Juventus are under investigation following irregularities found in an Italian citizenship test Luis Suarez underwent in September. At the time of the initial investigation on Sept. 22, the Italian finance police chief Selvaggio Sarri had said Juve were not being looked into, but that situation has now changed. – Insider Notebook: Man
8:42 AM ET Paris Saint-Germain are exploring the possibility of signing Barcelona‘s Lionel Messi in the summer, sources have told ESPN. Messi wanted to leave Barca in August after the 8-2 Champions League elimination to Bayern Munich and sources told ESPN at the time that Manchester City led the chase to sign him. – Insider
8:32 AM ET Errol Spence Jr. knows why the stakes are so high for Saturday’s fight against Danny Garcia. As much as the bout at AT&T Stadium is about maintaining Spence’s place as a unified welterweight champion, it’s also a test to see where Spence stands 14 months after a horrific car crash that left
7:50 AM ET Warning — this story contains details that some readers may find distressing It took 28 seconds for Romain Grosjean to emerge from the flaming wreckage of his Haas Formula One car on Sunday night. 1 Related On impact with the crash barrier, Grosjean’s body was subjected to 53 times the force of
8:30 AM ET College football Saturdays in the middle of a pandemic have tended to all run together, but the morning started differently last weekend. Over breakfast, I told my two daughters that Sarah Fuller had a chance to make history at Vanderbilt. I did not have to explain why. Their eyes went wide. In
7:00 AM ET Nearly 15 years ago, Erik Cole lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed with two fractures in his vertebra, wondering about his future. Brooks Orpik had crushed him with an illegal check from behind in a game on March 4, 2006, an act for which the Penguins’ punishing defenseman was suspended three games.
7:30 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Ukrainian tennis player Stanislav Poplavskyy has been given a lifetime ban for participating in match-fixing activities, the Tennis Integrity Unit said Friday. The TIU said Poplavskyy took part in match-fixing and “courtsiding” activities on multiple occasions between 2015 and 2019. Courtsiding involves transmission of live scoring data from