2:29 PM ET The pursuit of finding someone, anyone, to mimic Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson for their scout team has spurred NFL teams to audition everyone from the leader in touchdown passes in the Alliance of American Football to the college roommate of the All-Pro quarterback’s cousin. One team even went as far as
Month: January 2020
12:30 PM ET Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Missouri State is parting ways with coach Dave Steckel, whose teams won just 13 games in five seasons. The school said Thursday a “privately-funded buyout” will pay Steckel up to $340,000 plus moving expenses. He’ll get an initial $140,000 payment. Subsequent $100,000 payments in January 2021 and
11:28 AM ET Unified junior welterweight world titlist Josh Taylor, coming off winning the World Boxing Super Series tournament in October and one of boxing’s hottest fighters, has signed a multi-year promotional agreement with Top Rank, the company announced on Thursday. Terms of the deal, which will see Taylor’s future bouts broadcast on ESPN platforms,
9:44 AM GMT Exeter Chiefs second-row Sam Skinner is set to be fit for Scotland’s Six Nations campaign, having been out for five months with a hamstring injury. The 24-year-old missed the Rugby World Cup after injuring his hamstring during Scotland’s World Cup warm-up game against France at Murrayfield. Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter
9:28 AM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — Daniil Medvedev was docked a point for twice banging the umpire’s chair with his racket in a heated second set before he recovered to secure Russia’s semifinal spot at the ATP Cup with a win over Argentine opponent Diego Schwartzman. The fourth-ranked Medvedev blamed the meltdown on jet
7:00 AM ET DALLAS — There are 31 head-coaching jobs in the National Hockey League. Rick Bowness has one of them — but he truly wishes he didn’t. “I’ve been coaching in this league since the early 1980s. I didn’t want to be put in this position,” Bowness, 64, said. “No one saw it coming.
6:32 AM ET Fernando Alonso is close to signing a deal to contest this year’s Indy 500 with Michael Andretti’s team. Two-time world champion Alonso has twice attempted to win the famous oval race with McLaren — in 2017, the British team linked up with Andretti Autosport and Honda in a joint bid, before a
9:50 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Gayle‘s love for cricket is still going strong. Having taken a break from the game towards the end of 2019, he’s back in action with the Chattogram Challengers in the BPL, and he says he will continue playing T20s for a while yet. “A lot of people still want
1:03 AM ET DALLAS — This situation certainly was not what Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle had in mind recently when he emphatically declared that the “post-up just isn’t a good play anymore.” Nor was it how the Mavericks wanted to defend All-Star center Nikola Jokic with the game on the line. The 7-foot, 284-pound
12:42 AM ET Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Top-seeded Serena Williams had her toughest workout of 2020 before beating fellow American Christina McHale 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals of the ASB Classic. Williams dropped a set for the first time in singles or doubles this year and at times Thursday appeared
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