2:50 PM ET Nebraska junior quarterback Adrian Martinez will start this week’s opener against No. 5 Ohio State, coach Scott Frost said Monday. Martinez, who had a record-setting freshman season in 2018 for Nebraska but struggled at times in 2019, will take the first snaps after competing with redshirt freshman Luke McCaffrey in the preseason.
7:00 AM ET Adam Teicher Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 Marcel Louis-Jacques There’s a reason Monday night’s game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs (5 p.m. ET, Fox) has the highest over/under (57.5 points) in the league for Week 6: two
Last updated on 19 October 202019 October 2020.From the section Cycling Briton Stephen Williams is “extremely proud” to be set for his first Grand Tour after battling back from injury. The Welshman, 24, rides in the Vuelta a Espana, starting on Tuesday, after recovering from a knee problem that kept him out for 18 months.
3:20 PM ET Steve KimESPN After defeating Vasiliy Lomachenko on Saturday night to become boxing’s undisputed lightweight champion, Teofimo Lopez has options for his next bout. But despite no rematch clause, a second battle against Lomachenko isn’t out of the realm of possibility, Top Rank’s Bob Arum said Monday. “If you do a rematch, you
2:48 PM BST Wasps’ participation in the Gallagher Premiership final is in doubt after the club returned four more positive COVID-19 tests on Monday, bringing a total of 11 positive tests for the club within a week. Wasps are not training as a group ahead of Saturday’s final, after seven positive tests were returned last
1:57 PM ET Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes have signed forward Christian Fischer to a two-year contract. Terms of the deal announced Monday were not released. The 23-year-old Fischer was a restricted free agent after finishing with six goals and three assists in 56 games with the Coyotes last season. The bruising
IPL 2020, CSK vs RR: Jos Buttler smashed an unbeaten 70 off just balls against CSK.© BCCI/IPL After playing an unbeaten knock of 70 runs against Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Rajasthan Royals batsman Jos Buttler said that his role is to bat at number five position as of now. Rajasthan Royals chased down the total
8:00 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Clay Bellinger sat in Section 122 at Globe Life Field alongside his wife Sunday when Cody Bellinger came to bat with the score tied in the bottom of the seventh. Clay began to tell himself the same thing he tells himself every time his son digs into the batter’s
1:57 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche agreed to a one-year deal Monday with restricted free agent Tyson Jost. The 22-year-old forward scored eight goals and had 15 assists in 67 games for the Avalanche in 2019-20. He was a first-round selection by Colorado in 2016. “Tyson is a strong two-way player
IPL 2020, CSK vs RR: MS Dhoni took a brilliant catch to dismiss Sanju Samson on Monday.© Twitter MS Dhoni, playing his 200th Indian Premier League (IPL) match, showed that he still has the reflexes and fitness that has seen him considered among the best wicketkeepers to have played cricket. During Chennai Super Kings’ 7-wicket
1:00 PM ET Phil Mickelson will take part in another high-profile match, but this time Tiger Woods will not be part of it. Charles Barkley will partner with Mickelson in a match against Stephen Curry and Peyton Manning on Nov. 27 at Stone Canyon Golf Club in Arizona. Called Capital One’s The Match: Champions for
1:30 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) has launched an investigation on English ringside boxing judge Terry O’Connor who is alleged to have looked
12:08 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Justin Haley will return to Kaulig Racing for a third season in the Xfinity Series. The team announced the one-year contract extension Monday with a clever social media post in which fan favorite AJ Allmendinger briefly teased that he would be the driver of the No. 11
8:10 AM ET The wait will soon be over for UFC fans eagerly anticipating the battle between interim lightweight champion Justin Gaethje and world titleholder Khabib Nurmagomedov. The popular fighters are set to meet Saturday at UFC 254 on “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi. Gaethje will rely on power strikes and athleticism in attempting to
3:10 PM ET Saturday’s UFC card is down one fight, but this time it’s not because of an injury or a positive COVID-19 test. The Ciryl Gane (6-0) vs. Ante Delija (17-3) fight has been canceled due to a contract dispute with PFL, which Delija fought for in 2019. Per sources, the UFC pulled Delija
Oct 15, 2020 Sports Africa Network recently hosted a roundtable with five basketball players from the African continent. The discussion revealed the tremendous potential the sport has for enhancing mutual understanding between Africa and the USA, while highlighting the challenges remaining. Thirteen Africa-born men play in the NBA today, nearly enough to fill a team
It’s been a strange year for us all, for very obvious reasons. But if Ineos Grenadiers fail to win a Grand Tour in 2020, you know the world will be in a state of change. A maelstrom of a season, which began with Chris Froome not having his contract renewed by his near-lifelong paymasters, has
6:55 AM ET When Virgil van Dijk limped out of Liverpool’s Merseyside derby clash with Everton on Saturday just five minutes into the 2-2 draw, following a shocking challenge by goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, it brought an incredible personal record to an end. In between an injury-enforced substitution against Southampton at Anfield in September 2018 and