Month: September 2021

3:38 PM ET EAGAN, Minn. — The Minnesota Vikings don’t plan to swap left tackles for their Week 4 game against the Cleveland Browns. Despite rookie first-round draft pick Christian Darrisaw being a full participant at practice Wednesday for the first time since having groin surgery in August, the Vikings plan to keep Rashod Hill
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12:58 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Luis Rojas’ fate as New York Mets manager likely will be determined before the team hires a president of baseball operations. With a disappointing 2021 season coming to a close, New York holds an option on Rojas’ contract for next year. The club plans to bring in
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Sep 28, 2021 UFC fighter Jon Jones allegedly pulled a woman’s hair and head-butted a police car hours after one of his fights was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame last week. An arrest report released Tuesday by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department lays out the sequence of events that led to Jones
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3:00 PM ET ESPN.com standard fantasy leagues award a bonus 0.5 fantasy points when a player collects a goal or assist on special teams. While the shorthanded points are a nice little bonus when they happen, they are more or less inconsequential. Power plays are where you need to focus for fantasy. The leader for
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2:21 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Ons Jabeur was hardly thrilled about needing to wake up at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday ahead of her 9 a.m. match and got off to a slow start before reaching the Chicago Fall Tennis Classic quarterfinals by coming back to beat Jessica Pegula 1-6, 6-2, 6-3. The sixth-seeded
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Sep 28, 2021 TCU coach Gary Patterson criticized SMU for its role in the scuffle that followed Saturday’s game in Fort Worth, Texas, and for using one of Patterson’s country songs to mock his team. Patterson on Tuesday said SMU orchestrated an attempt to plant its flag at midfield at Amon G. Carter Stadium if
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5:21 PM ET Las Vegas Raiders defensive tackle Gerald McCoy was suspended without pay for six games for violating the NFL’s policy against performance-enhancing substances, the league announced Wednesday. McCoy, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in Week 1, said in a statement posted to Twitter that he was prescribed a banned substance “to help
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