8:00 AM ET After falling to 3-4, the Milwaukee Bucks have forfeited the No. 1 spot this week. The Utah Jazz, who were the league’s final unbeaten team before falling to the Chicago Bulls on Saturday, handed Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks their third straight loss on their way to the top of our list.
Month: November 2021
10:53 AM BST England coach Eddie Jones said he has always tried to be a “reasonable person” amid criticism of his coaching methods and the high turnover rate of backroom staff. A report in the Times last week said a former England player described Jones as “brutal, rude, aggressive” while a former employee said the
Big picture Is it really a World Cup if Pakistan have not lurched from crisis to catastrophe, and are not furiously mapping out probability trees, calculating net run rates, and praying that other teams help them sneak into the next round via the back door? Is it really a World Cup if Pakistan are not
8:00 AM ET Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman defends his UFC title against Colby Covington, in a rematch of their tremendous 2019 fight, which Usman won by fifth-round TKO. The bout on Saturday headlines a packed UFC 268 card that also includes another title rematch, a must-see lightweight fight and an opportunity for a few fighters
7:02 AM ET Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes this year’s championship battle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton could still be decided by an on-track collision at the final race. Formula One’s history is littered with titles that have been decided by crashes, most famously between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in 1989 and
Oct 30, 2021 Eric WoodyardESPN DETROIT — A new era of Detroit Pistons basketball is officially underway as No. 1 pick Cade Cunningham made his debut in Saturday’s 110-103 win over the Orlando Magic. Cunningham missed the entire preseason and the first four games of the regular season because of a sprained ankle suffered during
1:48 PM ET What if soccer had an all-star game? Scratch that: what if soccer had eight all-star teams representing eight major leagues — English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A, Spanish LaLiga, Major League Soccer, Mexico’s Liga MX, French Ligue 1 and Dutch Eredivisie — and we put those teams head-to-head in a
Oct 28, 2021 Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The San Diego Padres hired Bob Melvin to a three-year contract as their new manager Thursday, bringing on one of the most respected figures in baseball after the Oakland Athletics granted him
News The panel said it “was not reasonable for Azeem to have been offended” At least one Yorkshire player admitted to regularly using the term ‘P**i’ when talking to Azeem Rafiq, according to the report into racism at the club. But he was cleared of wrongdoing on the basis that it was perceived as, what
4:25 PM ET DENVER — Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning, who was behind center for the Denver Broncos‘ Super Bowl 50 win to close out the 2015 season, said Sunday he is not currently involved with any potential new ownership groups for the team and wouldn’t know what he would say if he was