FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Inter Miami has reunited star Lionel Messi with another one of his former teammates. This one, however, will be his new Major League Soccer coach. Inter Miami has hired former Barcelona and Argentine captain Javier Mascherano as its next head coach. The move, a two-year deal through the 2027 season without financial details disclosed, was announced ...

Spanish retailer Mango is embarking on a bold expansion plan in the U.S. as it looks to shed its fast-fashion image and position itself as a premium brand.   The privately held company, headquartered in Barcelona, plans to open 42 new storefronts in the U.S. by the end of the year and aims to launch 20 more in 2025, primarily in ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Older brothers tend to have the upper hand. Such is the case when head coaches John and Jim Harbaugh go head-to-head. John Harbaugh’s Baltimore Ravens (8-4) overwhelmed the Los Angeles Chargers (7-4) 30-23 on Monday night in front of an electric crowd at SoFi Stadium who witnessed the third edition of the “Harbaugh Bowl.” John improved his ...

Every week for the duration of the 2024 NFL regular season, USA TODAY Sports will provide timely updates to the league’s ever-evolving playoff picture − starting after Sunday afternoon’s late games and then moving forward for the remainder of the week (through Monday’s and Thursday’s games or Saturday’s, if applicable). What just happened? What does it mean? What are the ...

John Harbaugh was in the gambling mood against his brother Jim on Monday night. Round 3 of the Harbaugh bowl ended in familiar fashion as the John’s Ravens knocked off Jim’s Chargers, giving the older brother a 3-0 advantage in the series. It didn’t come without some risky business, however. Facing a fpurth-and-1 coming out of the 2-minute warning in ...

Los Angeles Rams receiver Demarcus Robinson was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence hours after his team played on ‘Sunday Night Football.’ Robinson was pulled over just before 5:15 a.m. on Monday in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, Highway Patrol said in a statement to USA TODAY Sports. Officials said officers observed a sedan ‘traveling ...

A hectic weekend of upsets in the Power Four will result in major movement in the SEC and a nosedive for Indiana in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings. There won’t be any change in the top four of the new rankings, with Oregon, Ohio State, Texas and Penn State continuing to lead the way. The first notable change comes ...

It’s Feast Week, which means we are ready to devour both stuffing (the undisputed best Thanksgiving side) and lots of great basketball.  For years, great non-conference matchups the week of Thanksgiving were reserved for men’s college hoops — you are probably familiar with the Maui Invitational, for example. But in recent years, as women’s basketball has exploded in both popularity ...

Everybody sucks. There, happy now? As we move forward in this critical juncture of the College Football Playoff, the teams in this demolition derby of a race have never looked so flawed. And yet so beautiful.  This is what we all wanted. A real, honest-to-goodness race in the final weeks of the regular season dictating the precious 12 spots in ...

The new Trump administration has a generational opportunity to expunge anti-merit identity politics that have infected and disabled so many American institutions and to bring back merit. So do governors and legislators in the states where Republicans won mandates in this election, too. For nearly a century following the Pendleton Act of 1883, our federal government used difficult tests to ...