Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterOct 16, 2024, 10:39 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. On Oct. 16, 2004, in the 82nd minute of a 1-0 win against local rival Espanyol, Barcelona manager Frank Rijkaard made a substitution. Off went Deco, the game’s lone scorer, and on came a 17-year-old Argentine […]
Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Jonathan Givony Close Jonathan Givony ESPN NBA draft analyst and writerJoined ESPN.com in July 2017Founder and co-owner of DraftExpress.com, a private scouting and analytics service used by NBA, NCAA and international teams Oct 18, 2024, […]
Oct 18, 2024, 11:14 AM ET There’s never been a ring celebrating back-to-back championships in men’s college basketball. Until now. On Thursday, the UConn Huskies revealed a special ring commemorating their 2023 and 2024 NCAA tournament titles. UConn defeated the 5-seed San Diego State Aztecs 76-59 in 2023 and the 1-seed Purdue Boilermakers 75-60 in […]
CNN — Monica Puig won more than 300 matches during her tennis career and the feeling afterwards was often the same: relief, excitement, and satisfaction that the weeks and months of sacrifice and preparation had paid off. Today, exactly a year after shoulder issues forced her to retire aged 28, Puig is still able to […]
Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterOct 17, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. “I met with the team. There is no team.” New Arkansas head coach John Calipari perfectly summed up the state of the men’s college basketball offseason — what was, essentially, an offseason […]
The 2024-25 preseason men’s college basketball AP Top 25 poll results are out! Kansas enters the season as the No. 1 team, over Alabama. Back-to-back reigning national champion UConn, meanwhile, will start a new season ranked outside the top-2 once again — but we all know what happened the last two times the Huskies did […]
Pakistan’s Sajid Khan (left) and Noman Ali (right) celebrating during the match against England in Multan, on October 18, 2024. — PCB KARACHI: In a remarkable turnaround, Pakistan has triumphed over England in the second Test in Multan, finally breaking their 11-Test winless streak at home and securing their first Test victory in 15 months. […]
Pakistan demolished England on Friday as their spinners tore through the visitors’ batting line-up, securing a commanding victory at Multan Cricket Stadium and leveling the series 1-1. Green Shirts beat visitors by 152 runs in the second Test in Multan. Chasing 297 for victory, England were all out for 144 in the fourth day’s morning […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers are showing why they have been the World Series favorites all year. They put up yet another dominant performance over the New York Mets in Game 4 of the NLCS on Thursday, rolling to a 10-2 win and taking a commanding 3-1 lead in the National League Championship Series. Dodgers slugger […]
Pakistan team celebrate during the fourth day of the second Test in Multan, on October 18, 2024. — PCB Noman Ali took eight wickets as Pakistan’s leading spinners guided the team to a 152-run win over England in the second Test in Multan on Friday, leveling the three-match series at 1-1. Chasing 297 for victory […]
