Major League Soccer suspended Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba for Inter Miami’s meeting with FC Cincinnati on Saturday after they controversially missed Wednesday’s MLS All-Star Game. The league revealed on the day of the match against Liga MX All-Stars that the pair wouldn’t play despite being voted onto the roster by fans and media, leading to speculation that MLS would …
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Inter Miami stars Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba have been suspended for Saturday’s match against FC Cincinnati after skipping Wednesday’s MLS All-Star Game. The league announced the sanctions on Friday afternoon. “Inter Miami CF’s Jordi Alba and Lionel Messi will be unavailable for the club’s match against FC Cincinnati on Saturday, July 26, due to their absence at this week’s …
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Joseph Rocco and his son, Marco, pose at right in a photo provided to The Associated Press. The Canva illustration also shows the bat flip, which has sparked a national controversy and the younger Rocco set to throw a pitch.Canva illustration / AP The fuss over a Little League bat-flip celebration has been settled off the baseball diamond and in …
Read More »The 12-year-old Little League player from New Jersey who was suspended for Thursday’s state championship game has been cleared to compete. Marco Rocco of Haddonfield Little League was ejected after flipping his bat to celebrate a game-winning home run in the sixth inning of a game on July 16. The ejection led to a single-game suspension that would have barred …
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A 12-year-old Little League player who was suspended from the New Jersey state final after a bat-flip celebration has been cleared to play. Judge Robert G. Malestein ruled in favor of Marco Rocco, who tossed his bat after hitting a two-run homer at the top of the sixth inning in a July 16 game, according to NJ.com. Rocco was ejected …
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Game changer! The New Jersey Little League player suspended for triumphantly flipping a bat into the air to celebrate hitting a home run will get to play in his state championship game after all, a judge ruled Thursday. “If you’re gonna have rules and enforce them they can’t be enforced arbitrarily and capriciously,” Gloucester County Chancery Judge Robert Malestein ruled Thursday …
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Brett OkamotoJul 23, 2025, 07:55 PM ET Close Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. …
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CNN — Women’s marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Thursday. Chepngetich smashed the previous marathon record by almost two minutes when she ran a time of 2:09:56 at the Chicago Marathon in October 2024, becoming the first woman in history to break the …
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Marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit after testing positive for Hydrochlorothiazide in a test on March 14th. Hydrochlorothiazide can be used to mask the presence of banned drugs. The minimum reporting concentration is 20 ng/mL. The AIU notes she had an estimated concentration of 3800 ng/mL in urine. The positive test …
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Jul 17, 2025, 11:50 AM ET MONACO — Women’s marathon world-record holder Ruth Chepngetich was provisionally suspended for a positive doping test Thursday. Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said Chepngetich tested positive for a banned diuretic and masking agent in March and “opted for a voluntary provisional suspension while the AIU’s investigation was ongoing.” The Kenyan runner set the …
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