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Wrexham have completed a deal for Manchester City defender Callum Doyle, the clubs announced Thursday. The Championship side signed the 21-year-old for a fee of £7.5 million ($10m), sources told ESPN. City have included a buy-back clause and a 25% sell-on clause in the deal. He has signed a four-year contract at the STōK Cae … Read more

Aug 21, 2025, 01:04 PM ET NEW YORK — An Ohio man has been arrested for throwing a sex toy at a WNBA game in New York, police said Thursday. It’s the latest development in a string of disturbances in which similar toys were tossed at WNBA games across the country, resulting in at least … Read more

Aug 21, 2025, 10:36 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Humpy Wheeler, a pioneering motorsports promoter and former president and general manager of Charlotte Motor Speedway, has died, NASCAR said. He was 86. Charlotte Motor Speedway said Wheeler died Wednesday of natural causes, surrounded by his family. The NASCAR family mourns the loss of H.A. “Humpy” … Read more

The women’s transfer record had barely moved over the past few decades but, like London buses, a host of major deals have come along at once in the last five years. In January 2025, USWNT defender Naomi Girma broke the $1 million barrier when she joined Chelsea from San Diego Wave in a deal worth … Read more

Andreas HaleAug 21, 2025, 07:57 AM ET Close Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining … Read more

Aug 20, 2025, 09:31 PM ET A bullet penetrated the glass in the practice facility office of Andy Reid while the Chiefs‘ coach was working alone in it last year, The Kansas City Star reported Wednesday night. Reid was unharmed, Kansas City (Missouri) Police Department spokesperson Capt. Jake Becchina told the Star. According to the … Read more

Aug 21, 2025, 08:00 AM ET Leagues Cup isn’t yet a one-stop shop for European and South American club scouts, but it could be — according to club sources — around MLS. The 2025 Leagues Cup kicked off last month, marking the third year of its second era since its original launch in 2019. Club … Read more

Aug 20, 2025, 07:52 AM ET Khamzat Chimaev has looked the part of a pound-for-pound great from the first time he stepped into the Octagon in 2020. In the opening round of his UFC debut, Chimaev landed 118 strikes, the second most by a middleweight in any round in the promotion’s history. Ten days after … Read more

Aug 20, 2025, 10:57 PM ET DENVER — Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani had a forgettable outing in his first career pitching start against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. Ohtani left Wednesday’s game after giving up five earned runs and nine hits in four innings, and getting hit in the leg by … Read more

You have probably heard of the Alexander Isak saga. Newcastle’s standout forward has been holding out — presumably in order to force a move — after his club turned down a £110 million transfer bid from Liverpool. You may be less familiar with the Lassana Diarra verdict and the interim changes to something called Article … Read more