Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJun 2, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. A proud, loud fan base never disappears. It just occasionally goes dormant. The college football universe went without the chestiness of fully confident, fully engaged Florida State fans for a few years. The Seminoles won the
Month: June 2023
At least 233 people have been killed after at least two trains were involved in a crash in eastern India. The collision happened about 130 miles southwest of Kolkata in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday evening. Between 10 and 12 carriages of one train derailing and debris falling on to a nearby track, according to
Many people are feared dead and hundreds of others have been injured after a train crash in eastern India. At least 50 people have reportedly been killed after a passenger train derailed and collided with a goods train in Odisha’s Balasore district. Rescuers were attempting to free 200 people feared trapped in the derailed coaches,
Rail strikes are set to cause further havoc today when train drivers walk out ahead of high-profile events including the FA Cup final, the Epsom Derby, and a Beyonce concert. Members of the Aslef union are taking industrial action in the long-running dispute over pay and working conditions. Read more: Everything you need to know
The Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and the Vegas Golden Knights is expected to be a tightly played series, without an overwhelming favorite to win it all. That is until you really start to get granular with the matchup. Then you know exactly which team will win it all. Here is a preposterously
Two of the country’s biggest banking giants have announced they are closing a total of 63 branches. Barclays said on Friday it will shut another 10 branches, on top of more than 70 closures this year that have already been announced. Meanwhile Lloyds Banking Group will shut the doors on 21 Lloyds Bank sites, along
Billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein tried to contact a disgraced US gymnastics team doctor while in prison, newly-released documents show. Epstein’s letter to Larry Nassar was found returned to sender in the jail’s mail room weeks after he took his own life in August 2019. Epstein was in a Manhattan jail awaiting trial for sex trafficking
Sam Bruce, Deputy Editor, espn.com.auJun 2, 2023, 05:01 AM Close Sam was brought up on long drives and the dusty fields of north-west New South Wales, where he developed his love of rugby from an early age. He joined ESPN after a five-year stint heading up Fox Sports Australia’s digital rugby coverage. The northern rugby
Alaina Getzenberg, ESPNJun 2, 2023, 06:00 AM ET BUFFALO, N.Y. — Shane Ray considers his final two years with the Denver Broncos and the two pandemic years after to be the hardest of his life. The pass-rusher, drafted at No. 23 out of Missouri in 2015, had a promising start in the NFL. He was
VW has revealed the much-anticipated North American version of its ID. Buzz electric microbus, with an extra row of seats and starting deliveries next year. The new ID. Buzz version is much like the two-row European spec, but with a little more of just about everything. It has 282hp as opposed to 201hp (plus an
Boris Johnson is giving all the WhatsApp messages and diaries available to him directly to the COVID inquiry, Sky News understands. The former prime minister had originally given the information to the Cabinet Office, but it had refused to comply with the inquiry’s order to hand over all the material in unredacted form. Friday’s move
Elon Musk’s Neuralink received approval last week from the US Food and Drug Administration to conduct human clinical trials, which one former FDA official called “really a big deal.” I do not disagree, but I am skeptical that this technology will “change everything.” Not every profound technological advance has broad social and economic implications. With
Joon Lee, ESPNJun 1, 2023, 05:37 PM ET Close Previously a Staff Writer at Bleacher ReportCornell University graduate NEW YORK — Mets pitcher Max Scherzer is not happy with the strict enforcement of the pitch clock. Before the fifth inning of Tuesday’s 4-2 victory by the Mets over the Phillies at Citi Field, Scherzer got
Dwayne Johnson has announced his return to the Fast & Furious franchise following longstanding reports of a feud with lead star Vin Diesel. This story contains mild spoilers for the film Fast X. The wrestler-turned-actor made his series debut as US secret agent Luke Hobbs in 2011’s Fast Five, and reprised the role for three
The US Senate has voted through a crucial deal to raise the country’s debt ceiling with just days to spare. Senators followed the House of Representatives in passing the agreement, which will be sent to Joe Biden to be signed into law before Monday’s deadline. Had the cut-off date been missed, it could have led
The government has been accused of an attempted “cover-up” as it bids to block the COVID inquiry’s request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and notebooks. Bereaved families and opposition parties criticised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after the Cabinet Office revealed it was taking the unusual step of bringing a judicial review of Baroness Hallett’s