There is just one game left in the season in which Paris Saint-Germain finally won the first Champions League in their history to complete a historic treble and that game is the Club World Cup final, but Luis Enrique says it has not been his best. He was better, he claims, when he lost. Besides, the PSG coach said, Manchester …
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The Portland Trail Blazers opened their Las Vegas Summer League schedule with a 106-73 victory over the Golden State Warriors. Portland stepped on the accelerator early with turnover-triggering defense and solid finishing in the open floor. With a double-digit lead in hand, the Blazers survived scoring droughts to cruise to a 33-point victory. Rookie center Yang Hansen showcased both his …
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The Los Angeles Lakers told Luka Dončić about the sale of the team in advance but didn’t notify LeBron James, according to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Brian Windhorst. “When the Buss family agreed to sell a majority stake in the franchise to Mark Walter on June 18, Doncic was given a heads-up and notably posted a congratulations on social media …
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Crystal Palace being denied entry to this coming season’s Europa League is a “terrible injustice” and a “bad day for football”, the club’s chairman Steve Parish has said. A UEFA panel has recommended that Palace are denied entry to the competition after it found that the club breached the governing body’s rules on multi-club ownership. The south London club are …
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Andreas HaleJul 12, 2025, 12:35 AM ET Close Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior …
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Is there a home run record that Cal Raleigh won’t own after this season. It’s starting to feel like anything is within reach of the Seattle Mariners’ slugging catcher at this point. Raleigh was at it again Friday night against the Detroit Tigers, slugging a pair of home runs from the right side of the plate in the Mariners’ 12-3 …
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Tennessee OL commit J.B. Shabazz. Photo via @JB_IsElite on Instagram. While fans are taking advantage of the new “decision day hat” feature in the College Football 26 video game, Tennessee commit J.B. Shabazz did so in real life on Friday evening. He actually faked out Tennessee for a moment, too. Surrounded by his friends and family at East Forsyth High …
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Jake Retzlaff announced on Friday that he’s withdrawing from BYU, formally initiating his transfer process from the school. Retzlaff, BYU’s starting quarterback last year, said in an Instagram post that he made the “difficult decision” to withdraw and that he plans to “step away” from the BYU program. The post makes public what had been expected, as Retzlaff began informing …
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The Celtics opened Summer League play Friday with a 92-78 win over the Grizzlies. They went up big early, and while the Grizzlies came back to make it a game, the C’s finished off the victory to improve to 1-0 at Las Vegas. While there were some questions on how much first-round pick Hugo Gonzalez would play, he got the …
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The attorneys who negotiated a $2.8 billion lawsuit settlement with the NCAA and four power conferences took issue Friday with the way college sports’ new enforcement body plans to vet name, image and likeness payments to athletes from school-affiliated collectives. In a letter to the power conferences and NCAA, obtained by The Athletic, attorneys Jeffrey Kessler and Steve Berman stated …
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