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Man City sign Rennes winger Jérémy Doku in €65m deal

Man City sign Rennes winger Jérémy Doku in €65m deal

Manchester City have completed the signing of Belgium winger Jérémy Doku on a five-year deal from French club Rennes, the Premier League champions announced on Thursday. ESPN reported on Monday that City had agreed a €65 million ($71m) deal with Rennes to secure the…

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Pieces appear in place for Canada’s men’s basketball team to qualify for 1st Olympics since 2000

Pieces appear in place for Canada’s men’s basketball team to qualify for 1st Olympics since 2000

Canada hasn’t earned a significant senior men’s basketball medal since 1936. The team hasn’t qualified for the Olympics since 2000. The time is now for both droughts to end. Canada plays its first match of the…

MMA
Savannah Marshall latest boxing star to venture into MMA

Savannah Marshall latest boxing star to venture into MMA

Undisputed super middleweight champion Savannah Marshall is the latest female fighter in the ESPN boxing pound-for-pound top 10 to make a foray into mixed martial arts. Marshall, ESPN’s No. 10 pound-for-pound fighter, revealed Tuesday she…

Soccer
Liverpool bid for Brazil’s André rejected by Fluminense

Liverpool bid for Brazil’s André rejected by Fluminense

Liverpool have had a €30 million ($32.5m) offer for Fluminense midfielder André rejected by the Brazilian club, sources have confirmed to ESPN Brasil. The Merseyside club want André to join them before the transfer window closes on Sept. 1 but Fluminense…

Racing
Canada’s Marco Arop glides into 800m semifinals after winning heat at worlds

Canada’s Marco Arop glides into 800m semifinals after winning heat at worlds

Canada’s Marco Arop cruised into the men’s 800-metre semifinals on Tuesday at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Arop, the reigning bronze medalist, made his move to the front of the pack with about 200…

Tennis
Simona Halep out of US Open field with doping suspension

Simona Halep out of US Open field with doping suspension

Simona Halep was dropped from the U.S. Open field on Monday because of a provisional doping suspension. The U.S. Tennis Association revealed that Halep, a two-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1-ranked player, “was automatically…

Soccer
Chelsea set to sign MLS GK Djordje Petrovic

Chelsea set to sign MLS GK Djordje Petrovic

Chelsea are set to finalize a deal worth up to £14 million ($18m) for New England Revolution goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic, sources have told ESPN. The 23-year-old is expected to undergo a medical in the coming days ahead of a…

Rugby
Canadian women’s rugby 7s team qualifies for 2024 Olympics after winning Langford, B.C., event

Canadian women’s rugby 7s team qualifies for 2024 Olympics after winning Langford, B.C., event

Canada’s women’s rugby sevens team is going to next summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, but the men’s team will have to keep trying to qualify. The Canadian women trounced Mexico 53-0 Sunday afternoon to win…

Tennis
Novak Djokovic outlasts Carlos Alcaraz for Cincinnati title

Novak Djokovic outlasts Carlos Alcaraz for Cincinnati title

Novak Djokovic overcame a match point and stifling heat to defeat world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz 5-7, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4) and collect the Cincinnati Open in a heart-pounding thriller Sunday. Djokovic collapsed on his back before tearing…

Racing
Paramount Prince captures 164th running of King’s Plate in Toronto

Paramount Prince captures 164th running of King’s Plate in Toronto

Patrick Husbands isn’t one to mess with a winning formula. So, after guiding Paramount Prince to a convincing five-length, wire-to-wire victory in last month’s Plate Trial, the veteran jockey took the horse to the lead…

Soccer
Man Utd eye new midfielder, GK, but must trim squad

Man Utd eye new midfielder, GK, but must trim squad

Manchester United are keen to sign a midfielder and a goalkeeper before the transfer deadline but first need to trim the squad, sources have told ESPN. Donny van de Beek and Brandon Williams were both left out of the 2-0…

MMA
Sean O’Malley takes Aljamain Sterling’s title in 2nd-round TKO

Sean O’Malley takes Aljamain Sterling’s title in 2nd-round TKO

Sean O’Malley climbed out of the Octagon, spread his arms wide and took a beer from a fan. He chugged it as the TD Garden rocked with cheering fans. The UFC has a new superstar. Welcome…

Soccer
Jorge Vilda on Spain World Cup win: Suffering was necessary

Jorge Vilda on Spain World Cup win: Suffering was necessary

Spain head coach Jorge Vilda said the “suffering was necessary” after his team lifted the World Cup for the first time in their history after a 1-0 victory over England in Sunday’s final. The 42-year-old’s long tenure as…

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Canada tops U.S. U24 team for 3rd straight 3×3 basketball Women’s Series title in Quebec

Canada tops U.S. U24 team for 3rd straight 3×3 basketball Women’s Series title in Quebec

Canada collected its third consecutive title of the 2023 3×3 basketball Women’s Series on Saturday with a 21-19 victory over the American under-24 squad in the final in Quebec City. With the Americans pressing to tie the game…

MMA
FIGHT BY FIGHT PREVIEW | UFC 292: STERLING VS O’MALLEY

FIGHT BY FIGHT PREVIEW | UFC 292: STERLING VS O’MALLEY

For the seventh time overall and first time since October 2019, the UFC is shipping up to Boston, and this time, the organization is bringing a loaded pay-per-view fight card. Headlined by a pair of…

Soccer
Sevilla keeper Yassine Bounou joins Saudi club Al Hilal

Sevilla keeper Yassine Bounou joins Saudi club Al Hilal

Al Hilal have signed Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou from Spanish side Sevilla on a three-year contract, the Saudi Pro League club stated on Thursday. “The Atlantic lion is our goalie,” Al Hilal posted on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter.…

Tennis
Denis Shapovalov withdraws from U.S. Open due to knee injury

Denis Shapovalov withdraws from U.S. Open due to knee injury

Denis Shapovalov is pulling out of the U.S. Open. The tennis star from Richmond Hill, Ont., made the announcement on social media Wednesday. Shapovalov stated he had done everything he could to be healthy for…

Tennis
Novak Djokovic falls in Cincy doubles in 1st U.S. match since 2021

Novak Djokovic falls in Cincy doubles in 1st U.S. match since 2021

Novak Djokovic fell in his first match in the United States since 2021, losing in doubles Tuesday in the Western & Southern Open. Djokovic and Nikola Cacic lost 6-4, 6-2 to Jamie Murray and Michael Venus in the Serbian star’s return to…

Soccer
West Ham move off as Maguire opts for Man Utd stay

West Ham move off as Maguire opts for Man Utd stay

Harry Maguire wants to stay at Manchester United this summer, sources have told ESPN. A proposed move for Maguire to join West Ham in a £30 million ($38m) deal has collapsed, and as things stand, the England international intends to stay at…

Sports
Canadian star guard Jamal Murray to miss FIBA World Cup

Canadian star guard Jamal Murray to miss FIBA World Cup

Denver Nuggets star Jamal Murray will not suit up for Canada in the upcoming FIBA World Cup, Canada Basketball revealed on Wednesday. Murray, who attended Canada’s training camp earlier this month in Toronto, stated that,…

Tennis
Venus Williams beats top-20 player for first time in four years

Venus Williams beats top-20 player for first time in four years

Venus Williams defeated a top-20 player for the first time in four years, rallying from big deficits in both sets to knock off 16th-ranked Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Western & Southern Open…

Soccer
Man City injury setback as De Bruyne set to miss four months

Man City injury setback as De Bruyne set to miss four months

Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne could miss the next four months with the team set to decide whether the Belgium international needs surgery on a hamstring injury, manager Pep Guardiola has stated. De Bruyne limped off during the first…

Rugby
Canada unveils men’s, women’s rosters for this week’s Olympic rugby sevens qualifier

Canada unveils men’s, women’s rosters for this week’s Olympic rugby sevens qualifier

Phil Berna and Olivia Apps will captain the Canadian sides looking to secure Olympic qualification at the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens this weekend in Langford, B.C. The two-day qualifying tournament features seven men’s and…

Racing
Miami Grand Prix to remain day-time race in 2024 – president

Miami Grand Prix to remain day-time race in 2024 – president

The Miami Grand Prix will stay a day-time race in 2024, but the event is still open to the prospect of becoming an F1 night event in future. Miami, which hosted the second race of…

Soccer
Chelsea’s Kepa joins Real Madrid on loan to replace Courtois

Chelsea’s Kepa joins Real Madrid on loan to replace Courtois

Real Madrid have signed goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga on loan from Chelsea, the Spanish club have confirmed. Madrid moved for Kepa, 28, after first-choice goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois suffered an ACL tear in training last week. Courtois is expected to be unavailable for around seven…

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Canada mounts 4th-quarter comeback to win DBB SuperCup Final in OT over Germany

Canada mounts 4th-quarter comeback to win DBB SuperCup Final in OT over Germany

RJ Barrett scored 31 points and Canada came back to defeat Germany 113-112 in overtime in the final of the DBB SuperCup in Hamburg, a warm-up basketball tournament for the upcoming FIBA World Cup. The New…

Tennis
Jessica Pegula routs Liudmila Samsonova to win National Bank Open

Jessica Pegula routs Liudmila Samsonova to win National Bank Open

Jessica Pegula routed Liudmila Samsonova 6-1, 6-0 on Sunday to earn the National Bank Open for her third career WTA Tour victory. “We’re out on tour to win tournaments and to win titles every single week, but tennis…

Soccer
Chelsea, Brighton agree to record £115m Moises Caicedo deal

Chelsea, Brighton agree to record £115m Moises Caicedo deal

Chelsea and Brighton have agreed to a British transfer record fee of £115 million ($146m) for midfielder Moisés Caicedo, sources told ESPN. The 21-year-old is expected to undergo a medical check on Monday and sign an eight-year…

Golf
Canada’s Ames wins Boeing Classic for 4th victory of season, ties tournament record

Canada’s Ames wins Boeing Classic for 4th victory of season, ties tournament record

Stephen Ames opened and closed with eagles Sunday in a runaway triumph in the Boeing Classic, his fourth PGA Tour Champions win of the season. The 59-year-old naturalized Canadian citizen from Trinidad shot a 9-under…

MMA
Antitrust suit against UFC officially granted class certification

Antitrust suit against UFC officially granted class certification

The plaintiffs seemingly earned a strategic triumph in an antitrust lawsuit against the UFC in 2020. Nearly three years later, that win has been made official. Federal judge Richard F. Boulware granted the plaintiffs class…

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