Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Feb 18, 2025, 01:03 PM ET Barcelona‘s financial situation continues to improve after LaLiga confirmed their annual spending cap is now over €463 million ($483.7m), an increase of nearly €40m from the beginning of the season. At this same time last year, Barça’s limit had been slashed to €204m. The boost […]
Feb 18, 2025, 11:30 PM ET Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini said his striker Ademola Lookman is “one of the worst penalty takers he has ever seen” after his miss from the spot hindered a comeback in their home 3-1 defeat to Club Brugge in the Champions League on Tuesday. Lookman pulled back one goal […]
Feb 18, 2025, 11:57 PM ET PROVO, Utah — Richie Saunders scored 22 points to lead BYU, and the Cougars handed No. 23 Kansas a monumental 91-57 defeat on Tuesday night. At 34 points in margin, Tuesday’s loss tied for the worst under Jayhawks coach Bill Self and was the third-worst defeat in the storied […]
Michael C. WrightFeb 18, 2025, 09:00 AM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2010 Previously covered Bears for ESPN.com Played college football at West Texas A&M SAN FRANCISCO — Surrounded on a court in the cavernous lower level of the Moscone Center, San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama stared into a crowd that kept swelling by […]
LAFC striker Olivier Giroud lost approximately $500,000 worth of jewelry when his Los Angeles home was burglarized earlier this month, a source told ESPN. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed on Tuesday they had responded Feb. 5 to a report of a window smash at a home in west L.A. The caller, who the source […]
Feb 18, 2025, 12:05 PM ET Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving said he wants to play for Team Australia and hopes to gain eligibility in time to represent the Boomers at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Irving, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, was asked during All-Star Weekend whether he would consider making a switch […]
Alexa PhilippouFeb 18, 2025, 06:23 PM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer The Connecticut Sun denied guard Marina Mabrey‘s request to be […]
David NewtonFeb 18, 2025, 04:11 PM ET Close David Newton is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Carolina Panthers. Newton began covering Carolina in 1995 and came to ESPN in 2006 as a NASCAR reporter before joining NFL Nation in 2013. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Veteran quarterback Andy Dalton has been instrumental in the […]
Feb 18, 2025, 12:10 PM ET Inter Miami‘s Major League Soccer season opener against New York City FC will now be played on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. ET at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after originally being scheduled to kick off at 2:30 p.m. ET. The decision to delay the game by five […]
Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has backed Marcus Rashford to turn his career around at Aston Villa and said he was “really impressed” by the forward when he faced him for the first time. Rashford joined Villa on loan from Manchester United in January, having fallen out of favour at Old Trafford under Ruben Amorim. […]