4:50 PM ET Arizona State has promoted Antonio Pierce to the sole defensive coordinator role, while Marvin Lewis will remain on staff as special assistant to coach Herm Edwards. Pierce, a former Pro Bowl linebacker with the New York Giants, served as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach alongside Lewis last season. He’s also Arizona State’s
3:56 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban is hiring former Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo Bills head coach Doug Marrone to be the Crimson Tide’s new offensive line coach,sources told ESPN. Marrone is set to join former Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien, who replaced Steve Sarkisian as Alabama’s offensive coordinator. Marrone and O’Brien share a
8:11 PM ET Boxing’s most polarizing act will return to the ring this spring. Jake Paul will fight April 17 against an opponent to be determined, it was announced Wednesday. Paul, the YouTube star and social-media supernova, has signed with Fight Club, the new boxing promotion launched by the team behind the social-networking app Triller
10:32 AM ET New Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell received a six-year contract from the team, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. The Lions announced Campbell’s hiring on Wednesday but did not disclose terms. The team will introduce him with a news conference on Thursday. “With more than 20 years of experience as both a
4:59 PM ET Unified super middleweight world titlist Canelo Alvarez will put his belts on the line against Avni Yildirim on Feb. 27 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. While it is refreshing to see Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KOs) back in the ring so soon after his recent demolition of Callum Smith in December, it’s
6:21 PM ET LONDON — Sir Alex Ferguson often used to suggest that Manchester United like “doing things the hard way,” but this incarnation are taking things more literally than surely even Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would like. United returned to the top of the Premier League on Wednesday with a 2-1 win at Fulham in
5:57 PM ET Professional gambler Billy Walters was granted a commutation by President Donald Trump during his final day in office, and it came with the help of letters written by, among others, Phil Mickelson. Walters was sentenced to five years in prison in 2017 for an insider trading case linked to Mickelson, who ended
3:14 PM ET Boxing’s biggest star, Canelo Alvarez, will return to the ring Feb. 27 versus mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim in Miami Gardens at Hard Rock Stadium, per sources. The fight will be broadcast on DAZN and other PPV cable platforms everywhere except Mexico. It will be a stay-busy title defense for Alvarez (54-1-2, 36
5:07 PM ET Veteran left-hander J.A. Happ and the Minnesota Twins have agreed to a one-year deal, pending a physical, sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Financial terms weren’t immediately available. Happ, a free agent, will remain in the American League after spending the last two-and-a-half seasons with the New York Yankees. He will join a
Joe Root is backing his young openers to come through the tough initiation of a maiden Test tour of Asia stronger for the experience. Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley both failed to reach double figures in either innings of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle and both fell to spin, the same spinner