Month: January 2025

Luka Modric and Jude Bellingham earned 10-man Real Madrid a 2-1 comeback win at relegation-threatened Valencia on Friday as the visitors moved top of the LaLiga standings. Real had to fight back after Hugo Duro put Valencia ahead in the 27th minute by tapping into an open goal after Thibaut Courtois had blocked Javi Guerra‘s
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Field Level Media Jan 3, 2025, 04:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Teoscar Hernandez is officially returning to the Los Angeles Dodgers after a triumphant first season, as the All-Star outfielder and the World Series champions agreed on a three-year, $66 million contract, the team announced Friday. The deal includes a club option of $15
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Doug Greenberg, ESPNJan 3, 2025, 04:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions With the Baltimore Ravens needing a victory to win the AFC North and the Cleveland Browns sitting several key players, Baltimore is a 20-point favorite for Saturday’s divisional matchup, as of Friday afternoon on ESPN BET. It’s the largest spread in Ravens franchise history
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Pete Thamel, Senior College Sports InsiderJan 3, 2025, 12:23 PM ET Close College Football Senior Writer for ESPN. Insider for College Gameday. Open Extended Reactions Alabama co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach Colin Hitschler has been informed he will not return to the Crimson Tide next year, sources told ESPN. Hitschler’s departure comes with a
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Eli Lederman, ESPN Staff WriterJan 3, 2025, 02:29 PM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. Open Extended Reactions Four-star Oregon quarterback Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele, a class of 2025 prospect who signed with the
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Stephen Holder, ESPNJan 3, 2025, 02:33 PM ET Close Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national
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Jesse Rogers, ESPN Staff WriterJan 3, 2025, 03:42 PM ET Close Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions The Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement with Korean infielder Hyeseong Kim on a 3-year, $12.5 million contract, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday. Kim, 25, was posted by
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Shams Charania, Senior NBA InsiderJan 3, 2025, 03:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHICAGO – Ahead of being honored by the Chicago Bulls Saturday night, Derrick Rose said he’d want to see his jersey hanging from the rafters at the United Center someday. “I would love that,” Rose told ESPN in a sitdown interview in
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Shams Charania, Senior NBA InsiderJan 3, 2025, 01:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Sacramento Kings rookie Devin Carter, the No. 13 pick in the NBA draft, will be available to make his season debut tonight against the Memphis Grizzlies and his father, assistant coach Anthony Carter, sources told ESPN. Devin Carter, who was drafted by
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Jake Trotter, ESPN Senior WriterJan 3, 2025, 01:19 PM ET Close Jake Trotter covers college football for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown (Ohio) Journal newspapers. You can follow him @Jake_Trotter. Open Extended Reactions Coach Ryan Day said the expanded College Football Playoff has
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Michael DiRocco, ESPN Staff WriterJan 3, 2025, 01:15 PM ET Close Michael DiRocco is an NFL reporter at ESPN. DiRocco covers the Jacksonville Jaguars. He previously covered the University of Florida for over a decade for ESPN.com and Florida Times-Union. DiRocco graduated from Jacksonville University and is a multiple APSE award winner. You can follow
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David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterJan 3, 2025, 10:00 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions NEW ORLEANS — Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua woke up Wednesday at 5:30 a.m. and checked his phone. Several news alerts popped up. The words “domestic terror
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Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNJan 3, 2025, 12:34 PM ET Close Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award
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Jake Trotter, ESPN Senior WriterJan 3, 2025, 10:52 AM ET Close Jake Trotter covers college football for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown (Ohio) Journal newspapers. You can follow him @Jake_Trotter. Open Extended Reactions Indiana quarterback Kurtis Rourke played the entire 2024 season with
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