Month: October 2021

6:47 PM ET The Senior Bowl is going to have a change this year — not in anything it does on the field, but rather how it helps athletes work through things off of it. The postseason draft evaluation and All-Star event has partnered with the Tatnuck Group, a talent assessment and development firm that
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6:39 PM ET Utah will retire the jersey number of Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe, best friends and teammates who died within nine months of each other, and honor their legacies in a ceremony during Saturday’s game against UCLA. They will be the first players in program history to have their number — No. 22
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6:05 PM ET HOUSTON — Houston Texans chairman and CEO Cal McNair apologized Tuesday following a report that he made an anti-Asian comment at a team charity golf tournament in May. According to Bally Sports, which spoke to several individuals who were present for the remark, McNair said, “I’m sorry that we couldn’t get together
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4:44 PM ET Southern Miss has joined the Sun Belt Conference and will enter the league as a full member no later than July 1, 2023, the league announced Tuesday. The addition gives the Sun Belt 11 football-playing members (Little Rock and Texas-Arlington are also in the league). “This is a big day for our
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5:09 PM ET The ACC announced Tuesday it is exploring options to leave Greensboro, North Carolina — the conference’s home since its founding in 1953. In a statement, the ACC said an independent consultant has led a first phase into evaluating its current office building and location. The ACC board of directors approved moving into
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3:48 PM ET Iowa will be without defensive back Riley Moss, the Big Ten’s co-leader in interceptions, for the second consecutive game, as he will miss Saturday’s trip to Wisconsin. Moss has a left knee injury he sustained while intercepting a pass in the second quarter of Iowa’s Oct. 9 win over Penn State. He
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4:25 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Packers put Allen Lazard on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Tuesday, meaning the team could be without its top three wide receivers heading into Thursday’s game against the unbeaten Arizona Cardinals. The news about Lazard, who was added to the list as a close contact, comes one day
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1:28 PM ET Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford is expected to be at full strength Saturday when the 20th-ranked Nittany Lions visit No. 5 Ohio State. Coach James Franklin on Tuesday said the Nittany Lions will have “a 100 percent Sean Clifford” against the Buckeyes. Clifford was injured in the first half of an Oct.
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3:37 PM ET NEW YORK — As the first in-person NFL league meetings since December 2019 kicked off, two former Washington Football Team employees arrived in the lobby of the Intercontinental New York Barclay hotel in midtown Manhattan with a stack of letters multiple pages long, asking for the findings of the report into the
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2:21 PM ET Associated Press The Atlanta Braves added right-hander Kyle Wright and outfielder/pinch runner Terrance Gore to the roster ahead of Tuesday night’s World Series opener against the Houston Astros, and right-hander Jacob Webb and infielder Johan Camargo were dropped. Infielder Marwin Gonzalez was added to Houston’s roster, and outfielder Jake Meyers was dropped.
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2:16 PM ET Penn State coach James Franklin is aware of potential distractions about his future with the program but hasn’t seen them affect his team despite recent on-field struggles. Franklin’s name has been connected with the USC coaching vacancy since it opened in September. He also has been mentioned as a potential candidate at
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7:11 AM ET Rob Dawson Mark Ogden Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is being allowed to continue as Manchester United manager but has been told his job is still very much under threat, sources told ESPN, amid disagreements at board level over the potential hire of Antonio Conte. Solskjaer was involved in discussions with executive vice-chairman Ed
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12:22 PM ET Former New England Patriots safety Patrick Chung was charged Monday with assault and battery against a family member and vandalism, according to court records. Chung appeared in court Tuesday in Quincy, Massachusetts, and pleaded not guilty to charges involving the mother of one of his children, according to The Boston Globe. The
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