At a time when some events are banning phones to ensure the audience is properly engaged in the experience, the perceived success of the new Champions League format was instead captured by the image of Aston Villa and Club Brugge players huddled around various devices anxiously checking the scores in Barcelona and Zagreb to see […]
Lifesaving health initiatives and medical research projects have shut down around the world in response to the Trump administration’s 90-day pause on foreign aid and stop-work orders. In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children, […]
Graham Fraser Technology reporter Getty Images Barclays customers are experiencing intermittent errors with payments and transfers for a second day after serious IT problems that also affected the bank’s app and online banking. Customers have told the BBC they are unable to make essential transactions, ranging from buying baby milk to completing a house move. […]
In the latest effort to put his stamp on the federal work force, President Trump on Friday issued a memorandum invalidating government labor contracts finalized in the last 30 days before a presidential inauguration. The policy applies to certain contracts negotiated toward the end of the Biden administration, the memo says. Such “last-minute, lame-duck” agreements, […]
Aston Villa are close to agreeing on a loan deal for Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford, sources told ESPN. ESPN reported on Friday that Unai Emery’s team had expressed an interest in signing the England international, and it now looks likely that Rashford could join them. Rashford is set to move to Villa Park until […]
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It’s a scene inside the Lemerand Center on an unfairly cold Wednesday night in early January. A junior college men’s basketball game is happening in a 1,000-seat gym. Everyone is here for that, including two players who were never supposed to be. But play has been paused. Security is defusing an altercation […]
The college all-star game played Saturday in Mobile, Ala., is called the Senior Bowl, but the game between the Chiefs and Eagles a week from Sunday in New Orleans could be called the Senior Citizen Bowl. While the Sean McVay effect remains real (see the hirings of 38-year-old Ben Johnson and 39-year-old Liam Coen), coaches […]
When Dennis Nixon started working at a regional bank in Laredo, Texas, in 1975, there was just a trickle of trade across the border with Mexico. Now, nearly a billion dollars of commerce and more than 15,000 trucks roll over the line every day just a quarter mile from his office, binding the economies of […]
MOBILE, Ala. — This is not shaping up to be The Year of the Quarterback. Teams in search of a quarterback this offseason are facing a major dilemma. The prospect pool is way down, to the point where some personnel executives around the NFL don’t believe there’s a franchise signal-caller in the draft, and the […]
Jeff CarlisleJan 31, 2025, 04:49 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Miguel Almirón said he feels like he’s “at home” now that he’s returning to Atlanta United. Almirón’s $12.5 million move from Premier League side Newcastle United was officially announced on Thursday. He arrived to a […]