Aug 29, 2024, 12:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Liverpool have been drawn to face Real Madrid as part of the Champions League’s revamped 36-team league format, while Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick will return to Germany to face his former employers Bayern Munich. Editor’s Picks 2 Related Bayern will face Barça in the competition
Associated Press Aug 29, 2024, 06:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions RALEIGH, N.C. — Carolina Hurricanes forward Jesper Fast is expected to miss the season after neck surgery this month. The team announced Fast’s prognosis Thursday after he had surgery Aug. 6. Fast, 32, suffered a neck injury in the regular-season finale in April and
Associated Press Aug 29, 2024, 04:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — A film project has earned former Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis a temporary reprieve from the start of his three-year prison term for a fraud conviction in Manhattan federal court. Judge Valerie E. Caproni said Wednesday that Davis can
Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterAug 29, 2024, 10:45 AM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions Louis Rees-Zammit has joined the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jamie Squire/Getty Images Louis Rees-Zammit has been added to the
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterAug 29, 2024, 02:45 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Wisconsin has hired longtime NFL coach Jack Del Rio to its staff, where he will serve as senior adviser to Badgers coach Luke Fickell, the team told ESPN on Thursday.
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderAug 29, 2024, 01:49 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Robson Conceicao and O’Shaquie Foster will meet in a 130-pound title
Aug 29, 2024, 12:00 PM ET The UEFA Champions League is back for 2024-25! This season’s edition is the first in a new format that will include 36 teams in the group stage. Follow along as we bring you live updates, analysis and highlights from the draw taking place in Monaco. There will be plenty
ESPN Fantasy Aug 29, 2024, 09:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions After a summer full of fantasy football mock drafting, our ESPN Fantasy crew got together for one final practice run before taking part in many drafts that count in the coming days. The 2024 NFL season is on the doorstep, and we are ready
File photo of Joe Root.© X/@sakthi_sudhan Joe Root equalled the England record of 33 Test centuries held by Alastair Cook when he reached three figures on the first day of the second Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s on Thursday. Root, 81 not out at tea, spent 12 balls on 99 and one of the
Kendra Andrews, ESPNAug 29, 2024, 12:36 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry has agreed to a one-year, $62.6 million extension, his agent, Jeff Austin of Octagon, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Thursday. The agreement keeps Curry under contract with Golden State through the 2026-27 season, and he will become
Getty Images 7 hours ago Pablo Castrillo claimed the biggest win of his career with a brilliant summit finish to beat Britain’s Max Poole on stage 12 of the Vuelta a Espana. The 23-year-old Equipo Kern Pharma rider, making his Grand Tour debut, approached the final kilometre with a lead of around half a minute
Getty Images Andrew Benson F1 Correspondent at Monza 3 hours ago World Championship contender Lando Norris says he struggles to eat and drink on Formula 1 racedays because of the nerves and pressure he feels to do a good job. The McLaren driver, 24, who is hoping he can challenge Red Bull’s Max Verstappen for
Left-arm fast bowler Barinder Sran, who played six ODIs and two T20Is for India in 2016, has announced retirement from all forms of the game. In all, he picked 13 wickets while representing India in both white-ball formats. Sran holds the record for the best T20I figures by an Indian male cricketer on his debut.
Anna Katherine ClemmonsAug 29, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Close Anna Katherine Clemmons is a contributing writer for ESPN The Magazine. Open Extended Reactions Mitch Mason sat in his mother’s hospital room in Tampa. It was June 11, 2024 — his birthday — and his phone buzzed with text messages. He’d flown to Florida from Chapel
Getty Images Andrew Benson F1 Correspondent at Monza 29 August 2024 Renault motorsport employees will go on strike on Friday in protest at plans to end the company’s Formula 1 engine programme after next year. A statement from a staff committee at the Renault motorsport base in Viry-Chatillon, near Paris, said the “vast majority” of
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emma Smith BBC Sport journalist at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome, Paris 2 hours ago Comments Daphne Schrager and Steve Bate won Great Britain’s first medals of the 2024 Paralympics in the track cycling, after team-mate Kadeena Cox earlier
Famous faces from Formula One’s past and present gathered in London to discuss what the future of the sport could look like and what is important to them in the next decade. In the previous video in the ‘F1 in 10 Years’ series McLaren driver Lando Norris sat down with BBC Sport to discuss how
Dan Hajducky, ESPNAug 29, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Hajducky is an associate editor for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. Open Extended Reactions Los Angeles Dodgers star and two-time MVP Shohei Ohtani has signed an