Graham HunterApr 7, 2025, 04:00 AM ET Close Graham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team. Barcelona are too young, inexperienced and daring in their high defensive line — they are not ready for this test of all tests. Real Madrid are struggling, tired […]
SAN ANTONIO — J’Wan Roberts extended his hands. Settle down, he begged. Yes, this was impossible. Yes, this whole swirling, bizarre night was on the verge of alchemy. Yes, this was about to be the night that Houston pulled off a comeback so stunning, so jarring, that it will take everyone — specifically those souls […]
U.S. oil prices fell sharply, briefly dipping below $60 a barrel on Sunday — their lowest level in almost four years — as the economic fallout from President Trump’s latest round of tariffs reverberated around the world. Crude oil now costs around 15 percent less than it did last Wednesday, just before Mr. Trump revealed […]
When President Trump unveiled major new tariffs on Wednesday, one big economy that he did not target was Russia. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Wednesday that Moscow was spared because sanctions imposed on the country after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 mean that U.S.-Russian trade had effectively stopped. North Korea, […]
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent BBC Stephanie Swann works and cares for her son Carers can now work for longer without losing a key payment – as the state pension and benefits rise for millions of people. While pensioners are receiving a bigger increase than the current rate of price rises, benefits are going […]
Charlie Haynes BBC Investigations, East Midlands BBC Jayne Evans is one of hundreds of “placeholder” resident doctors who do not know where they will be based Jayne Evans has completed four years at medical school in London – but says she is still being left in the dark about where her first permanent NHS position […]
Financial markets were hit by another wave of selling on Sunday evening, with investors and economists grappling with rising odds of a severe economic downturn caused by President Trump’s significant new tariffs on imports. Futures on the S&P 500, which allow investors to bet on the index before the official start of trading on Monday, […]
Norwegian club SK Brann claimed victory for free speech on Sunday with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling that they did not have to pay a fine imposed by UEFA after fans chanted “UEFA Mafia” and displayed banners with the same message. European football’s governing body fined Brann €5,000 ($5,500) for “provocative messages […]
There was little rest on Wall Street this weekend. There was plenty of anger, anxiety, frustration, and fear. Anger at President Trump for a brash and chaotic rollout of tariffs that erased trillions of dollars in value from the stock market in two days. Anxiety about the state of the private equity industry and other […]
Just when you think you’ve seen everything that football has to offer, along come Ipswich Town. Amid another morale-sapping defeat that all but sealed their relegation from the Premier League, Ipswich, with a little help from their opponents, Wolverhampton Wanderers, served up the maddest two minutes of Premier League action you are likely to see […]