4:20 PM ET LONDON — Mikel Arteta desperately needed a result to back up his rhetoric, and Arsenal beating Chelsea 3-1 on Saturday, is precisely it. It is a popular refrain among managers attempting to arrest a decline to cite the importance of hard work, but you suspect Arteta means it more than most given
Month: December 2020
9:48 PM ET It had been 790 days between starts for San Francisco 49ers quarterback C.J. Beathard going into Saturday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals. In between, Beathard endured a lifetime’s worth of grief. Earlier this week, Beathard observed the one-year anniversary of the death of his younger brother, Clayton, who had been stabbed to
9:20 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN In Sunday’s New York Times, an advocacy group took out a full-page advertisement calling on the NBA and its owners to force Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores to sell his team because of his ownership of a prison telecom company. “It hurts,” Gores said during Saturday’s media availability ahead of
6:00 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — His handpicked coach has won 24 of his first 30 games. The general manager he hired just saw players from his first two draft classes selected to the Pro Bowl. Still think Mark Murphy doesn’t know what he’s doing? That was the thought — maybe not the prevailing
8:46 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals star quarterback Kyler Murray sustained a leg injury in the final seconds of the Cardinals’ 20-12 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday. Murray was hurt on a hit by 49ers defensive lineman Alex Barrett after throwing a pass that fell incomplete to wide receiver DeAndre
7:07 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quarterback Cam Newton is slated to start for the New England Patriots on Monday night against the Buffalo Bills, barring an unexpected change, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. Newton’s status, and the possibility of the Patriots turning to backup Jarrett Stidham, came into sharper focus after New England
6:30 PM ET GLENDALE, Ariz. — The San Francisco 49ers‘ attempt to play the role of postseason spoiler against the Arizona Cardinals gained steam late in the third quarter Saturday as quarterback C.J. Beathard found fullback Kyle Juszczyk for a 9-yard touchdown. That touchdown staked the Niners to a 14-6 lead with 5:13 left in
5:38 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — – Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo says the team isn’t ruling out a reunion with Ryan Zimmerman after acquiring slugger Josh Bell to play first base this week. The Nationals acquired Bell, a 2019 All-Star, from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday for two pitching prospects, and Bell
4:40 PM ET Coach John Calipari’s summation of the Kentucky Wildcats‘ sixth straight loss — a 62-59 defeat to rival Louisville on Saturday — was simple and to the point: “Losing stinks.” “Let me just say this again, losing stinks,” Calipari said. “We had our chances, and we had some breakdowns.” Kentucky fell to 1-6
Dec 24, 2020 The Cincinnati Bearcats have one of the best résumés of any Group of 5 school in BCS/College Football Playoff history, and they still finished just No. 8 in this season’s final rankings. In the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl against Georgia (noon ET on Jan. 1 on ESPN and the ESPN App), they’ll be
2:46 PM ET DETROIT — The Detroit Lions were already down their coach, defensive coordinator and three position coaches due to COVID close contact quarantine. Then their quarterback, Matthew Stafford, played a series before suffering an ankle injury, ending his day. The combination of that along with a season already lost led to this —
4:03 PM ET North Carolina star running back Javonte Williams is opting out of the Orange Bowl and will enter the 2021 NFL draft, he said Saturday. Williams rushed for 1,140 yards on 157 carries with 19 touchdowns this season. He made history with teammate Michael Carter earlier this month as the pair combined for
4:43 PM ET Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady helped end the NFL’s second-longest playoff drought by throwing four touchdown passes in a 47-7 blowout win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday, clinching Tampa Bay’s first playoff berth since 2007. Brady, appearing in his 300th game in the same city his career began — Detroit, 20 years
1:09 PM ET The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to a one-year, $1 million contract with center Carl Soderberg, the team announced Saturday. Soderberg, 35, posted 35 points in his lone season with the Arizona Coyotes, who acquired the center in a June 2019 trade with the Colorado Avalanche. “Carl is an experienced center who plays
2:15 PM ET The Cleveland Browns are delaying their flight to New Jersey to conduct contract tracing after a player tested positive for COVID-19. The Browns are scheduled to play the New York Jets at 1 p.m. ET Sunday. Starting left tackle Jedrick Wills Jr. was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list earlier this week after
1:28 PM ET Forget the slow starts that have eluded Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season. With a playoff berth on the line Saturday for the first time since 2007, the 43-year-old quarterback threw four touchdowns in the first half against the Detroit Lions, with Leonard Fournette tacking on a fifth on
1:04 PM ET Ilya Kovalchuk is returning to Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League after signing a two-year contract with Avangard Omsk, the league announced Saturday. Kovalchuk, 37, played for three NHL teams during the 2019-20 season. He started the campaign with the Los Angeles Kings before they waived him and his $18.25 million contract in December.
8:30 AM ET It was Tuesday, July 30, 2002, when Coastal Carolina University dignitaries — the chancellor, the athletic director, the football coach, a couple of trustees — gathered beneath a pop-up tent in the sweltering Grand Strand, South Carolina, sun. They smiled from beneath their hard hats, stuck their ceremonial shovels into the sandy
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