8:00 AM ET This week, new Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly made a bold, and some would say misguided, proposal for the Premier League to introduce an all-star game of North vs. South, similar to those featured in a variety of sports in the United States. 2 Related It hasn’t gone down well, given the ongoing
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Sep 14, 2022 Alexandra Mandrycky has been promoted by the Seattle Kraken to assistant general manager, becoming the sixth woman elevated to that position this offseason and the first to specialize in analytics. Mandrycky, 31, joins a growing group of women in assistant general manager roles, along with Kate Madigan (New Jersey), Meghan Hunter (Chicago),
7:47 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN One of the most heated rivalries in boxing history will finally reach its conclusion Saturday when Canelo Alvarez defends the undisputed super middleweight championship against Gennadiy Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (DAZN PPV, 8 p.m. ET). The third fight between Canelo and GGG comes four years after their
7:50 AM ET FOR MAJDI SHAMMAS, the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 9 in Las Vegas were a manager’s worst nightmare. At approximately 4 a.m. local time, Shammas knew his fighter, Khamzat Chimaev, would not make weight for a UFC 279 main event against Nate Diaz. Chimaev and his team had done all they
7:00 AM ET Tears flowed in the locker room. Players hugged each other as high school teammates for the last time. Documentarian Tommy Haines was struck by the rawness of the emotions, even in a land where hockey is considered life. “It was brutal. I felt for them,” Haines said, adding that his crew eventually
7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: If you can walk or crawl, let’s leave this hospitalAnd take this car far as it goesLost and kicked about, sun belt scars remove all doubtCover up, this chapter’s closed, no, this world ain’t all snow — “Sun Belt Scars,” by Banner Pilot Here at Bottom 10
9:52 PM BST After a weekend off, the Rugby Championship resumes on Thursday night with the Wallabies hosting the All Blacks in a Test that also opens the Bledisloe Cup series. Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium is the scene for a rare midweek clash between the two trans-Tasman rivals, with the last such Test played nearly 30
1:06 AM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Last year, the Los Angeles Dodgers went all the way to the last day of the regular season, won a whopping 106 games and still lost the National League West title to the San Francisco Giants. This time, Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers left no doubt. Kershaw pitched
6:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — The T-shirts were hung at their lockers at The Star on Friday with a clear message in white letters: RESILIENCE. This was more than 48 hours before quarterback Dak Prescott suffered a broken right thumb in the Dallas Cowboys’ 19-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but coach Mike
7:00 AM ET Stephen HolderESPN INDIANAPOLIS — The summertime family football games on the Jersey Shore were as competitive as they were physical. And, if we’re being honest, Matt Ryan had no business participating. He was the youngest of the cousins, brothers and uncles recklessly throwing their bodies around for bragging rights. In the grand
6:08 AM ET The Premier Hockey Federation’s Metropolitan Riveters will play their home games inside American Dream, a megamall in New Jersey, beginning this season, the team announced Wednesday. The Riveters have reached a three-year agreement to hold all practices and home games on American Dream’s NHL-sized rink, which can hold around 2,000 spectators. The
File photo of Ishwar Pandey with MS Dhoni© Instagram/Ishwar Pandey Pacer Ishwar Pandey, who had a decent time in the MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL), announced his retirement on Tuesday. The veteran of 75 first-class (263 wickets) and 58 List A matches (63 wickets) could never make it to
2:22 PM ET The World Cup is in Messi’s sights and his form suggests he’s fully focused on achieving his top goals for club and country this season. Aurelien Meunier – PSG/PSG via Getty Images The stat says a lot about the kind of season Lionel Messi is having so far. In the big five European
1:33 AM BST Describing him as the benchmark Test winger, Will Jordan knows he will have his hands full trying to contain Wallabies game-breaker Marika Koroibete in Thursday’s Bledisloe Cup encounter. The All Blacks winger will be in Koroibete’s firing line at Marvel Stadium with the Fijian flyer being up front this week about what
6:42 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — On second thought, Denver Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett said Tuesday he “definitely” should have let quarterback Russell Wilson run a fourth-and-5 play in the closing seconds of Monday night’s loss in Seattle instead of sending kicker Brandon McManus out for a 64-yard field goal attempt. “Looking back at it,
3:43 PM ET Doctors determined Tuesday afternoon that the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ T.J. Watt does not surgery on his torn pectoral and the star pass-rusher is expected to miss about six weeks, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Watt, who suffered the injury on Sunday in a 23-20 overtime victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, had sought
9:56 PM ET ESPN News Services BOSTON — New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs of the season on Tuesday night in a 7-6 win over the Boston Red Sox in 10 innings. Judge, playing in New York’s 142nd game, is four from tying the American League
6:23 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Giannis Antetokounmpo got ejected, and Greece’s hopes of bringing home a European championship ended not long afterward. Germany, meanwhile, is taking full advantage of its home-court edge. Dennis Schroder scored 26 points, Daniel Theis had a 13-point, 16-rebound effort and host Germany moved into the EuroBasket semifinals with