Aug 23, 2024, 12:13 PM ET Hideki Matsuyama withdrew from the BMW Championship with a lower back injury Friday, one day after he shot an opening-round, 5-under 67 to sit one shot off the lead. Matsuyama has dealt with back and neck injuries for the past few years. Matsuyama recorded the 10th PGA Tour title…
Aug 23, 2024, 09:56 AM ET Inter Miami head coach Gerardo “Tata” Martino said Friday that Lionel Messi will soon be ready to join the team for training and insisted he will return to the field before the end of the MLS regular season. Messi has been sidelined with an ankle ligament injury since exiting…
Alexa Philippou, ESPNAug 23, 2024, 09:30 AM 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 Tuesday wasn’t the best offensive night for Marina Mabrey,…
Aug 23, 2024, 01:04 PM ET Miami (Ohio) coach Chuck Martin has accused Alabama of “illegally” recruiting All-America place-kicker Graham Nicholson, a charge that Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer denies. Martin made the accusation after being asked in a video for the school website about “losing” his star kicker through the transfer portal. Nicholson, who…
Week 3 of the 2024 NFL preseason kicked off Thursday as teams prepare to turn their focus to the regular season. The final preseason games will be many players’ last chance to prove themselves before the 53-man roster cutdown deadline Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET. Our NFL Nation reporters will break down their roster projections…
Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Aug 23, 2024, 07:39 AM ET Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham suffered a muscular injury in his right leg in training on Friday, the club has confirmed. A source told ESPN that Bellingham was expected to be absent until mid-September, after the international break. Madrid play their first home match of…
Aug 22, 2024, 06:00 PM ET Pete Carroll said earlier this week that part of his life after being coach of the Seattle Seahawks will include teaching a class at USC this spring. Trojans coach Lincoln Riley said Wednesday he’d welcome any assistance Carroll can give his football program while in Los Angeles, too. “I’d…
Formula One is back after the summer break and heads to Zandvoort in the Netherlands for Max Verstappen’s home race, the Dutch Grand Prix. It is the first race weekend of a doubleheader, with Monza in Italy to follow next week. Zandvoort first held a grand prix in 1952 but dropped off the calendar in…
Dan Hajducky, ESPNAug 23, 2024, 07:20 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. CLEVELAND — Up close, the front and back of Babe Ruth’s faded, gray flannel New…
Aug 23, 2024, 05:00 AM ET Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said boredom has helped inspire him to develop new tactical ideas as he bids to win a fifth straight Premier League crown. Guardiola, 53, began his ninth season at City last Sunday with a comfortable 2-0 win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. He said…