7:00 AM ET It’s that time of year, when executives are checking the waiver wires and looking to make moves to improve their teams. But in this case, the front-office gurus in question are baseball players themselves and their teams consist of football players. For many baseball players, fantasy football is their offseason vice —
7:00 AM ET Soccer practice was dragging one morning last spring when Vanderbilt assistant coach Kelly Keelan tried something different to break up the monotony. While the rest of the team practiced on the football field in the indoor facility, she gathered goalkeepers Sarah Fuller and Sophie Guilmette near the end zone. 2 Related “Today,”
10:28 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay didn’t mince words after a 23-20 loss to the injury-plagued San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. “Our quarterback has
9:26 AM ET Walk into any NHL locker room today and you’ll hear a cacophony of languages and accents from around the world. Rewind 50 years ago and the acoustics were much different. Take the 1970 Stanley Cup champions, the Boston Bruins. Their roster had more Canadians than a season of “Letterkenny,” with U.K. native
9:19 AM ET ESPN News Services Three-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka will be starring in a new Japanese manga comic book series as a character in a magazine for teenage girls. Osaka’s sister, Mari, helped produce “Unrivaled Naomi Tenka-ichi” (which means “World No. 1”), which will be running in Nakayoshi magazine starting in late
4:06 PM ET After winning two Olympic gold medals in judo, Kayla Harrison began her mixed martial arts career two years ago as a prized prospect. She has lived up to the hype, going 8-0 with six finishes and winning $1 million as the Professional Fighters League women’s lightweight tournament champion in 2019. But Harrison
When Tyson Fury returns to the ring in 2021, it will become one of the biggest boxing events of the year. Fury, one of the sport’s biggest stars, became world heavyweight champion for the first time five years ago today. But the fight, and Fury’s crowning moment, almost never happened as the English boxer’s camp
6:18 AM ET Who are the NBA free agents to watch in 2021 and 2022? The 2020 free-agent class featured less star power than normal, as the league blitzed through a condensed transaction period featuring the draft and free agency in the same week. The 2021 class has more hype, potentially featuring names such as
8:36 AM GMT Press Trust of India Greg Barclay, the new ICC chairman, has conceded that the ambitious World Test Championship (WTC) hasn’t quite achieved what it intended to, and the disruption caused by Covid-19 has only highlighted its “shortcomings”. Barclay suggested going “back to the drawing board” after getting the latest – maiden –
1:19 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — There’s nothing like a home game against Burnley to get Manchester City scoring. Sean Dyche’s side turned up at the Etihad Stadium having lost their last five visits by an aggregate score of 22-1, and even with City struggling for goals in the Premier League, they still