4:16 PM ET Ben Roethlisberger privately has told former teammates and some within the organization that he expects this to be his final season playing quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, league sources told ESPN. Roethlisberger has not made any such public proclamations, and likely won’t, since he doesn’t want the latter part of the season
Month: December 2021
3:28 PM ET Daisuke Matsuzaka brought his 23-year professional baseball career to a close Saturday in a ceremony that included a surprise appearance by Ichiro Suzuki. Matsuzaka, who faced only one batter this season for the Saitama Seibu Lions — issuing a walk in an October appearance — told fans at Seibu’s MetLife Dome that
3:19 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic will miss Saturday night’s game against Memphis, the second night of a back-to-back, with what the team says is left ankle soreness. Doncic missed three consecutive games last month because of left ankle and knee sprains. Dallas lost all three. The 22-year-old showed
Report Reinvented as an opener, Russell dominates 159-run stand with Tom Kohler-Cadmore Deccan Gladiators 159 for 0 (Russell 90*, Kohler-Cadmore 59*) beat Delhi Bulls 103 for 7 (Hemraj 42) by 56 runs Once he gets going, there is quite simply no stopping him. Dynamic, powerful and with the ability to hit sixes at will; a
2:35 PM ET A scheduled welterweight fight between Jake Matthews and Jeremiah Wells is off UFC Fight Night on Saturday due to COVID-19 protocols, the promotion confirmed with ESPN. Wells wrote Saturday morning on Instagram that he did not test positive for COVID-19, but one of his cornermen did and due to contact tracing the
2:04 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Presbyterian head football coach Kevin Kelley, famous for his unique approach that includes never punting and often opting for onside kicks, announced he’s leaving the school in a statement on Twitter Saturday. “I have decided to leave Presbyterian College to pursue other football interests,” Kelley said. “I am proud that
Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as title rival Max Verstappen crashed trying to beat the Mercedes driver’s time. In a gripping, see-saw qualifying session, Verstappen hit the wall on the exit of the final corner when he looked set to displace Hamilton from the front of the grid. Verstappen
9:00 AM ET GRAPEVINE, Texas — It’s finally here. Saturday’s conference championship games will end weeks (months?!) of hypotheticals and put the pressure squarely on the shoulders of the College Football Playoff selection committee to pick the four best teams in the country on Selection Day. The committee gathered on Friday evening to watch the
1:38 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby says expanding the College Football Playoff as soon as the 2024 season is “in some jeopardy” if an agreement on a new format cannot be reached soon. Speaking Saturday to reporters before the Big 12 championship game between No. 5 Oklahoma State
News Seamer hopes lessons of 2019-20 Lions tour will serve him well in maiden Ashes series As a 13-year-old in 2006-07, Ollie Robinson bunked off a week of school to spend Christmas out in Australia and watch Andrew Flintoff’s team get crushed in three of the five Tests of that winter’s Ashes whitewash. He’s back
12:43 PM ET Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Iga Swiatek, the 2020 French Open champion, announced Saturday that she is splitting from coach Piotr Sierzputowski after nearly six years working together. “This change is really challenging for me and this decision wasn’t easy, either,” Swiatek wrote in a post on Instagram that was accompanied by
12:45 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Pro Football Hall of Famer Claude Humphrey, one of the NFL’s most fearsome pass-rushers during the 1970s with the Atlanta Falcons, has died at the age of 77. Humphrey, who also played for the Philadelphia Eagles, died unexpectedly in Atlanta on Friday night, according to the Hall
12:17 PM ET ESPN staff It’s champ week! Meaning it’s the last week of the college football season, which seriously flew by fast. Now, there were a bunch of wild coaching moves earlier this week, starting with Lincoln Riley going to USC, Brian Kelly going to LSU and Notre Dame announcing Marcus Freeman as Kelly’s
10:50 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Teofimo Lopez was risking his life and should have been in a hospital — rather than a boxing ring — when he lost his four lightweight belts to George Kambosos last week at Madison Square Garden, according to a doctor who subsequently examined him and reviewed his medical records. “He
10:19 AM ET It is the final weekend of the college football season — championship Saturday. The College Football Playoff picture will get a lot clearer after today’s games. The SEC championship in Atlanta is the top game of the weekend with the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs facing the No. 3 Alabama Crimson Tide. No
10:49 AM ET The Seattle Seahawks will activate running back Adrian Peterson off the practice squad for Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. The Seahawks had signed the 36-year-old Peterson to their practice squad earlier this week as a reinforcement for their banged-up backfield. 1 Related Peterson was
10:29 AM ET Akron is hiring Oregon offensive coordinator Joe Moorhead as its next football coach, the school announced Saturday. Moorhead, 48, spent the past two seasons as the offensive playcaller and quarterbacks coach for the 10th-ranked Ducks, who lost Friday night to No. 17 Utah in the Pac-12 championship game in Las Vegas. He
10:04 AM ET PITTSBURGH — Less than a week after he tested positive for COVID-19, Steelers edge rusher T.J. Watt was activated from the reserve/COVID-19 list ahead of Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens. Watt tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday and exited the protocols with a second negative test Saturday morning. Watt’s return is
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