1:45 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren had a telephone call with President Donald
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4:20 PM ET ESPN News Services BUFFALO, N.Y. — Former Buffalo Sabres forward Matt Ellis was hired on Tuesday to become the team’s director of player development under new general manager Kevyn Adams. Though it’s a first-time NHL job for the former nine-year player, Ellis spent the past four years working at Sabres-affiliated Academy of
2:48 PM ET Jeff Carlisle Close U.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Austin Lindberg With the MLS is Back Tournament a distant memory and the regular season well and truly underway, with a schedule jammed full of matches, ESPN’s Power Rankings make their long-awaited return. With
3:46 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — William Byron, fresh off his first career Cup Series victory, now has a contract extension through 2022 at Hendrick Motorsports. The extension was finalized in early August and announced Tuesday, just days after Byron’s win at Daytona International Speedway earned him a berth in NASCAR’s playoffs. “I’m
1:22 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Tiz the Law is the 3-5 morning-line favorite for the 146th Kentucky Derby and will attempt to become the first winner from the No. 17 post position drawn for Saturday’s rescheduled marquee race for 3-year-olds. All the race favorites will break from the outside. Second choice Honor
2:52 PM ET Steve KimESPN Naoya Inoue’s Top Rank debut is set. The unified bantamweight titlist and ESPN’s No. 4 pound-for-pound fighter is scheduled to face Jason Moloney (21-1, 18 KOs) at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas this fall, according to Moloney’s manager, Tony Tolj. “We’re still in talks and finalizing the
11:31 AM ET ESPN.com staff The 146th running of the Kentucky Derby will take place Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentcuky, sans fans. Usually the first race of the Triple Crown, the Derby was rescheduled from May 2 to Sept. 5 due to the pandemic. Tiz the Law took the first leg of the
Deepak Chahar did some leg exercises in the video shared by Chennai Super Kings.© Twitter Chennai Super Kings (CSK) fast bowler Deepak Chahar, one of the two players who tested positive for coronavirus last week, said that he has “recovered well” and said he was looking forward to getting into action soon. “Thank you so
Jumbo-Visma rider Primoz Roglic won a thrilling finish to stage four of this year’s Tour de France as Julian Alaphilippe retained the yellow jersey. Krists Neilands led before being caught at the start of the last climb of 7.1km to this year’s first summit finish. The favourites were all in contention before Slovenian Roglic kicked
7:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” When Mike Trout reported to spring training in mid-February 2020, he was 28 years old and had more career WAR through the age of 27 than any player in Major League Baseball
6:00 AM ET Armonty Bryant was sitting in his dining room when a number he didn’t recognize popped up on his phone. The former NFL defensive end doesn’t usually answer those calls but he was feeling good this day in late January, so he picked up. On the other end were staffers from University of
10:32 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Serena Williams nearly tripped as she scrambled to get to the ball on match point. She managed to make contact, but the ball sailed into the net and it was over. Bianca Andreescu became the 2019 US Open champion, and Williams became the runner-up in her fourth straight major final.
7:12 AM ET Through six volcanic NBA playoff games against the Utah Jazz, Jamal Murray has: Averaged 34 points. Put up 50, 42, then 50 again — the last two in season-saving wins, as the Denver Nuggets look to become the first team since the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers to rally from a 3-1 deficit. (Do
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The 2020 NFL season is just over a week away, so it’s time for our annual ranking of the league’s top 100 players. What can we expect from the game’s best players? We asked a panel of 46 ESPN NFL experts to rate players based on how good they will
8:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors Terence Crawford could return to the ring later this year, but don’t expect to see the WBO welterweight world titlist against fellow titleholder Errol Spence Jr. or Manny Pacquiao just yet. Crawford and his promoter Top Rank are in talks with Matchroom to face Kell Brook in November. Brook, a
8:40 AM ET The restarted NHL season is just over a month old. The bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton have held, with zero positive tests for the coronavirus. The action on the ice has been exciting, if missing that extra zest of a live playoff audience. After facing so many challenges in returning to play
Pierre Gasly’s stirring recovery drive to eighth place at the Belgian Grand Prix was confirmation of the Frenchman’s renaissance in Formula 1. In the past year, Gasly has gone from being demoted from Red Bull to their junior team, his career apparently hanging by a thread, to being one of the standout performers on the
5:01 PM ET The contracts just keep on coming. UFC president Dana White did another Oprah Winfrey impression (“You get a contract, you get a contract!”) last week on Contender Series. White gave out another four UFC deals, bringing the Season 4 total up to 16 contracts through four weeks. Meanwhile, Impa Kasanganay, who earned