7:30 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona defender Irene Paredes hopes selling out Camp Nou will serve as inspiration for other clubs ahead of Saturday’s Champions League final against Lyon. Barca twice broke the attendance record in women’s football on their way to this weekend’s showpiece in Turin, with 91,553 fans watching their quarterfinal
Month: May 2022
9:25 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Red Sox second baseman Trevor Story connected again Friday night — this time with a former Boston player seated atop the Green Monster. Story, who hit three home runs in Boston’s victory Thursday, launched a grand slam to give the Red Sox a 4-0 lead over Seattle in
8:38 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert and Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo highlighted the 2021-22 NBA All-Defensive teams, which were announced on Friday night. Smart, the league’s 2021-22 Defensive Player of the Year, earned his third first-team nod. He was joined at the guard spot by
8:52 PM ET Associated Press TULSA, Okla. — The wind finally relented Friday in the PGA Championship. Will Zalatoris never did. From the fairway or the rough, Zalatoris kept hitting the golf ball on the button at Southern Hills and took advantage of gentler conditions late in the afternoon for a 4-under 66, giving him
6:29 PM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — Canada-bred Interstatedaydream mounted a bold stretch run to hold off favorite Adare Manor and win the $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Friday. Starting from the ninth post, Interstatedaydream won for the third time in five career starts and has never finished out of the
3:19 PM ET CALGARY, Alberta — Calgary Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk has his tough-guy persona down on the ice. In real life? Tkachuk’s got a soft side. Even when it comes to the Battle of Alberta. The Flames and Edmonton Oilers are locked in to a heated second-round Stanley Cup playoff series, and the Oilers
3:40 PM ET The ACC and Pac-12 released their financial data for the 2020-21 season on Friday, and most notably, the conferences saw their revenues impacted in a different way during the coronavirus pandemic. While the ACC 990 form shows total revenue was more than $578.3 million, the highest gross revenue in league history, the
11:41 AM ET Michael Vick, the once-dynamic NFL quarterback whose involvement in a dogfighting ring paused a breathtaking career in its prime, has agreed to come out of retirement to join startup league Fan Controlled Football, a source told Reuters on Friday. Vick, who was the No. 1 pick in the 2001 NFL draft and
2:18 PM ET ESPN News Services The women’s and men’s professional tennis tours will not award ranking points for Wimbledon this year because of the All England Club’s ban on players from Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine. The WTA and ATP announced their unprecedented decisions Friday, two days before the start of
3:33 PM ET The Mountain West Conference will eliminate its divisions in football starting in 2023, pitting the two teams with the highest winning percentages against each other in its conference championship game, the league announced Friday. The MWC followed the Pac-12 this week in its move to scrap divisions after the NCAA Division I
2:24 PM ET Jacksonville State assistant head football coach Calvin Magee has died after suffering a heart attack last weekend, the school announced Friday. He was 59. Magee was entering his first season with the Gamecocks, with whom he also held offensive coordinator and tight end coaching duties. “Our hearts are broken with the loss
Ravichandran Ashwin, once again, proved his utility with the bat when his team needed it the most as Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings by five wickets to finish the IPL league phase in Top-2 on Friday. Ashwin remained unbeaten on 40 off 23 balls as RR completed the chase of 151 with two balls
7:12 AM ET ESPN Sports Betting The 147th running of the Preakness Stakes will take place Saturday at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. While Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike will sit out the race, this year’s Preakness will be interesting to watch with Derby runner-up Epicenter and Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Oath in
8:00 AM ET MIAMI — The Boston Celtics are a team of long-distance runners. For years, former Celtics president Danny Ainge employed a consultant that would identify draft picks and free agents’ “brain types” under the belief that certain personality traits made for better players. Ainge and that system are gone, but the Celtics —
12:29 PM ET Associated Press Members of the winning bid from Canada, Mexico and the United States after being chosen to host the 2026 World Cup. EPA/SERGEI CHIRIKOV FIFA intends to announce the 2026 World Cup sites during a news conference in New York on June 16. Seventeen U.S. stadiums in 16 areas remain in the
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10:47 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Naomi Osaka cracked jokes at Roland Garros on Friday — and, yes, laughed at those jokes. She smiled after some reporters’ questions. She paused to contemplate, as is her wont, before offering answers. All of which seemed to confirm this assessment that she offered during an 18-minute pre-tournament
Charles Leclerc headed the Mercedes drivers to set the pace in Friday practice at the Spanish Grand Prix. The Ferrari driver’s title rival Max Verstappen was fifth fastest, 0.336 seconds off the pace, but looked strong in race trim later in the session. George Russell and Lewis Hamilton were second and third fastest, after Mercedes
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