Why Monchi snubbed Arsenal for a return to rudderless Sevilla
SEVILLE – If Roma miss out on Serie A’s top three for the first time in five years, Monchi will be apportioned most of the blame. Giallorossi owner James Pallotta…
Football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears.
How Spurs, not VAR, destroyed City's quadruple dream
The most important thing in Pep Guardiola’s managerial repertoire is control. He seeks it through possession, but that alone isn’t enough. He wants excellence at every position, the wingers to…
United's hasty decision to appoint Solskjaer isn't paying off
A lot has changed for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer since his last visit to Barcelona’s Camp Nou. Twenty years on from scoring a thrilling added-time winner in the Catalan capital against…
Nurturer? Neanderthal? Inside the managerial mind of Neil Warnock
Warning: Story contains coarse language Cardiff City are on the cusp of an immediate relegation from the Premier League so, naturally, Neil Warnock is in the spotlight. With a record…
ATP Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent’s court.
Tiafoe hopes to meet LeBron after mimicking celebrations
Frances Tiafoe channeled LeBron James throughout his run at the Australian Open and now hopes to get the chance to meet the Los Angeles Lakers star. The 21-year-old American, who…
Kyrie Irving, Nick Kyrgios collaborate on tennis sneaker
Kyrie Irving is bringing together the basketball and tennis worlds for his latest sneaker project. The Boston Celtics point guard collaborated with Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios on a new…
Top 25 sportspeople of 2018: Nos. 5-1
With 2018 winding down, theScore looked back at the previous 12 months and voted on the top 25 sportspeople of the year. Here’s the final installment, highlighting Nos. 5-1. 25-21…
Delpo's long climb back to US Open final meets cruelly Djokovician end
Juan Martin del Potro and Novak Djokovic were sitting together on the doorstep of greatness nearly a decade ago, awaiting what felt like imminent admission. Each man had one Grand…
BASEBALL
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding. The batting team attempts to score runs by hitting a ball that is thrown by the pitcher with a bat swung by the batter, then running counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third, and home plate.
Giants' Belt after ejection: 'Something has to be done' about umpire
San Francisco Giants first baseman Brandon Belt was ejected on Thursday against the Washington Nationals along with his manager Bruce Bochy, and postgame he called out an umpire for making…
The unstoppable Rays are redefining the super-bullpen
Of all the impossibly nasty pitches uncorked early on in 2019, none captivated the internet quite like Jose Alvarado’s freakish fastball. The pitch, a 1-2 offering clocked at 99.4 miles…
What makes Curry, Crosby so dominant? This book credits their brains over bodies
A couple of weeks ago, journalist Zach Schonbrun was browsing the internet and happened across an article about an unusual 3-point-shooting demonstration in Tokyo. Toyota engineers, he read, had built…
MLB Power Rankings: Astros rising, Red Sox evening out in early stages
Welcome to the third edition of theScore’s MLB Power Rankings for the 2019 season. Rankings will be published every second Monday throughout the regular season with the next installment coming…
NASCAR
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is the sport’s highest level of professional competition. It is consequently the most popular and most profitable NASCAR series. Since 2001, the Sprint Cup season has consisted of 36 races over 10 months.
Watch: Skydiver gets caught in fence at NASCAR Cup championship race
What happens at a NASCAR race when it gets windy? Skydivers… stuck in a fence. pic.twitter.com/PexO0NxXU9 — NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) November 18, 2018 It was a windy start to…
Man in Earnhardt-inspired car arrested after leading police on chase
A 43-year-old man was arrested in Arkansas after leading police on a six-mile chase in a Ford Mustang with a No. 3 painted on the door, much like the famous…
Look: Chase Elliott to debut new Mountain Dew paint scheme at Bristol
Chase Elliott’s No. 9 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 will sport a new look in time for the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 15. The teal paint scheme…
NASCAR moves up start of Atlanta race due to threat of rain
The Associated Press 5m ago Brian Lawdermilk / Getty Images Sport / Getty HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) The start of Sunday’s Monster Energy Cup race has been moved up one hour…
Rugby
Rugby is a sport that people play around the world. Many people play rugby in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy, France, South Africa, Argentina, Japan,USA, Canada the Pacific Islands and some 100+ other countries. It is the World’s premier oval ball football and is usually just called “rugby”.
10 under-the-radar prospects who could outperform their draft positions
First-round picks get all the attention, but a number of prospects selected over the following six rounds will wind up having stellar NFL careers as well. Here are 10 under-the-radar…
Fantasy: Which TE prospects have the best chance to become stars?
Find positional rankings, additional analysis, and subscribe to push notifications in the NFL Fantasy News section. Prospect Fantasy Outlooks With the 2019 NFL Draft just over a week away, we’ve…
Worth the wait? NFL teams might be better off drafting a QB in 2020
Quarterbacks are a staple of the first round of the NFL draft, and the number of pivots selected among the first 32 picks rarely fluctuates year to year. Sixteen of…
Meet the unheralded, lightning-quick receiver prospect proving everyone wrong
When Tony Isabella looks at old photos of his eldest son, he notices things. For instance, in so many of those childhood photos, Andy Isabella is holding a football. “Most…