Month: December 2021

12:21 PM ET HOUSTON — The Texans will turn to quarterback Davis Mills for the rest of the season, head coach David Culley said on Friday. Mills replaced quarterback Tyrod Taylor in Houston’s Week 13 loss to the Colts after Taylor was benched in the third quarter. “I felt like [Mills] gives us the best
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12:40 PM ET Center/power forward Christian Wood calls the Houston Rockets‘ historically unprecedented seven-game winning streak “a little surprising,” but he’s adamant that the recent success is representative of the team’s potential. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Rockets are the only team in NBA history to have a losing streak of at least
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12:23 PM ET The NCAA Committee on Infractions on Friday placed Auburn‘s men’s basketball program on four years’ probation and suspended coach Bruce Pearl for two games after it said he failed to adequately monitor former assistant coach Chuck Person and did not promote an atmosphere of compliance. The NCAA’s long-anticipated ruling comes more than
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12:00 PM ET Former NFL coach Hue Jackson was named head coach at Grambling State on Friday. Jackson, 56, last served as a head coach with the Cleveland Browns from 2016 to 2018. He also coached the Raiders in 2011. Most recently, he was the offensive coordinator at Tennessee State. It’s official Grambling State University
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11:06 AM ET Texas defensive backs B.J. Foster and Chris Adimora both entered the NCAA transfer portal Friday. Foster, who entered the portal as a graduate student, has started games in each of the past four seasons for the Longhorns. The safety started all 12 games this past season, leading Texas with three interceptions and
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11:00 AM ET Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle will miss multiple games after returning a positive PCR test for COVID-19, sources told ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. Due to the positive test, Carlisle will miss his first matchup against the Dallas Mavericks — the team he coached for 13 seasons before resigning this past offseason — on
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8:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN More than five years after winning his second Most Valuable Player award, Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry could be on his way to claiming a third. Curry, who is second in the NBA in scoring and first in both 3-pointers made and attempted, got 94 of the 100 first-place
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7:33 AM ET Nevada is set to hire Oregon co-defensive coordinator Ken Wilson as its next head football coach, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday. Wilson previously spent 19 seasons coaching at Nevada, including five seasons as assistant head coach and four as defensive coordinator. He spent the past nine seasons working at Washington State
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