8:00 AM ET Lesson 1: Confound their expectationsIn the spring of 2015, Jeremy Conn is co-hosting a sports talk radio show in Baltimore. One afternoon the show gets a call from “Mo in Glen Burnie.” Conn doesn’t think much of it; there are lots of calls and lots of callers. He says “What’s up dude”
Month: November 2020
8:33 AM ET Associated Press HAMBURG, Germany — Tennis great Boris Becker said Wednesday he is stepping down from a position overseeing youth development and the Davis Cup team at the German Tennis Federation. The six-time major winner said he no longer had enough time to do the job that he started in 2017. Becker
10:25 AM ET CINCINNATI — Bengals quarterback Brandon Allen will take over for the injured Joe Burrow as the team’s starter, a source confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Allen, who has spent the entire season on the practice squad, will be making his fourth career NFL start on Sunday against the New York Giants. The
9:18 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jaguars are making a quarterback change as they try to snap a franchise-record-tying nine-game losing streak, as coach Doug Marrone is going with Mike Glennon over rookie Jake Luton and second-year player Gardner Minshew against the Cleveland Browns, he announced Wednesday. This will be Glennon’s first start since
10:02 AM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — The NCAA has suspended Nebraska basketball player Derrick Walker for the first 16 games of the season for a rules violation while he was at Tennessee in 2018-19. The Nebraska athletic department made the announcement Wednesday, shortly before the Cornhuskers’ opener against McNeese State. The 6-foot-8, 232-pound
8:50 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Andre Ward has mixed feelings. On one hand, the retired two-division champion is excited. On the other hand, he’s concerned. When Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. enter the ring for their eight-round exhibition bout Saturday, Ward will certainly be tuned in to witness hands get thrown between two of
9:39 AM ET Vanderbilt football, which finds itself in need of a place-kicker, could turn to women’s soccer player Sarah Fuller. Appearing on 102.5 The Game in Nashville on Wednesday, coach Derek Mason confirmed that Fuller “is an option for us.” The Vanderbilt Hustler first reported that Fuller practiced with the football team Tuesday with
7:53 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Curtis Blaydes has won four fights in a row, two of them by knockout and the other two by thoroughly dominant beatdown. During an MMA career that spans 17 pro bouts over 6½ years, he has been bettered by only one opponent. Blaydes is No. 3 among heavyweights in the
7:00 AM ET Elijah Moore made a mistake. We all make mistakes. But he made the mistake. On Thanksgiving Day 2019 in Starkville, Mississippi, Moore became Bill Buckner, Jackie Smith and Chris Webber. Eternally tied to the images of their nightmare scenarios. Since that moment, everywhere the 20-year-old goes, every conversation he has, every time
Previewing the biggest names in college basketball (1:26) Check out the highlights of some of the biggest names to look out for in college basketball, including Garrison Brooks, Ayo Dosunmu, Marcus Garrett, Luka Garza, Keyontae Johnson, Oscar Tshiebwe and Marcus Zegarowski. (1:26)
7:00 AM ET This Thursday is Thanksgiving, or as it’s known in the hockey community, “American Thanksgiving.” Which means it’s time for an annual tradition in this column: What we’re thankful for in hockey. As this is the 2020 edition of said tradition, I was a little concerned it would end up being slightly shorter
6:00 AM ET Jacoby Jones was in his third week with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2015 when he walked into the team meeting Thanksgiving morning and couldn’t believe his eyes. The screen showed the moment that links Jones and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin in NFL lore. On Thanksgiving night 2013, Tomlin veered too far away
6:00 AM ET The hometown kid returned and “put on a show,” leading to an odd occurrence during a Washington-Dallas Cowboys game in Texas: Fans chanting for an opposing player. But this was quarterback Robert Griffin III and this was the fan base he had thrilled only a year earlier at nearby Baylor. In 2011
7:20 AM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Coaches at all levels of athletics have to be teachers, tacticians, psychologists and master motivators. And they will go to some extreme and bizarre lengths to motivate a team. Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said he channeled 1980s prop comic Gallagher in an effort to inspire and excite his team
8:00 AM ET Welcome back, college hoops! It seems like only yesterday that you were so abruptly taken away from us. Those terrible handful of days when plug after plug was pulled on the 2020 postseason, just as it was tipping off. A stack of conference tournaments shuttered, followed by what will forever be remembered
7:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Every year, two Hall of Famers are born. OK, it’s not quite that precise, but as an average, it works out: 20 future baseball Hall of Famers (from the Negro Leagues and
9:28 AM GMT Greg Barclay, the new ICC chairman, has declared the “unsustainable” global cricket calendar needs to be fundamentally examined and effectively rejected the suite of global events put to market by the governing body’s chief executive Manu Sawhney earlier this year. In a strong initial statement of intent, Barclay told ESPNcricinfo that the
By Matt WarwickBBC Sport Last updated on 5 hours ago5 hours ago.From the section Motorsport Britain’s Jamie Chadwick says there is “no reason a woman can’t be up there with the guys” after being confirmed among the 20 drivers competing in the inaugural Extreme E season in 2021. The new climate-aware series, set to begin
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