3:39 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — UFC president Dana White has struck a partnership deal with the Pitbull-owned NASCAR team Trackhouse Racing, starting this week at the exhibition Clash in Los Angeles. White’s Howler Head Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey will serve as primary sponsor of Ross Chastain‘s No. 1 Chevrolet in Sunday’s race
Month: February 2022
3:23 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The collective-bargaining meeting between the Major League Baseball Players Association and MLB on Tuesday afternoon led to no significant progress, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN, almost ensuring a delay to
2:15 PM ET NFL NationESPN Tom Brady retired Tuesday after 22 seasons, seven Super Bowl rings and 84,520 passing yards — the most in NFL history. The former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback played every NFL team at least once, with a .500 or better career record against every team in the
Jan 31, 2022 Working the waiver wire is pivotal to succeeding in fantasy basketball. With so many games, injuries and endless shifts in rotations throughout the marathon campaign, we’ll need to source stats from free agency to maximize imaginary rosters. A willingness to entertain competition for the last few spots on your fantasy hoops roster
2:22 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Vanessa Bryant will be recognized as one of the leading women in sports at an event during Super Bowl week. Bryant — the widow of Kobe Bryant — will be honored at the third annual Sports Power Brunch: Celebrating the Most Powerful Women in Sports on Feb.
1:26 PM ET PHOENIX — James Harden (right hand strain) went through all of the Brooklyn Nets‘ shootaround Tuesday and has been upgraded to probable for the game Tuesday night against the Phoenix Suns. “I think he’s feeling less irritation,” Nets coach Steve Nash said after the shootaround. “So the inflammation’s come down. Therefore, the
1:21 PM ET Alaina GetzenbergESPN BUFFALO, N.Y. — Josh Allen got his wish. The Buffalo Bills have promoted quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator Ken Dorsey to offensive coordinator, filling the role now-New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll vacated last week. Daboll was interested in bringing Dorsey with him to the Giants as his
1:00 PM ET Will Zalatoris, who just missed winning his first PGA Tour event last week, has withdrawn from this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after testing positive for COVID-19, the tour announced Tuesday. Zalatoris, the 29th ranked player in the world, will be replaced in the field by Greg Chalmers. Zalatoris, 25, just missed
11:54 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Star quarterback Caleb Williams is transferring to USC, he told ESPN. The move reunites Williams with first-year USC head coach Lincoln Riley, for whom Williams played during his breakthrough true freshman year at Oklahoma in 2021. “I wanted to go somewhere I thought would provide me with the best development
5:00 AM ET The coronavirus pandemic continues to impact football’s finances, but unlike recent times, the January window will be open as normal for Europe’s top leagues. (Find out when each league’s window opens and closes here.) 2 Related Clubs across Europe in Italy’s Serie A (€550 million), Germany’s Bundesliga (€415m), France’s Ligue 1 (€375m)
11:15 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN MOBILE, Alabama — Kenny Pickett knew what was coming. Pickett, one of the top quarterback prospects in this year’s NFL draft, acknowledged questions about his hand size one day after electing to not have his throwing hand measured as part of the Senior Bowl weigh-in. The former University of Pittsburgh
9:43 AM ET Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady has officially announced his retirement from the NFL, saying Tuesday in an Instagram post that he is “not going to make that competitive commitment anymore.” “I have always believed the sport of football is an ‘all-in’ proposition — if a 100% competitive commitment isn’t there, you
10:30 AM ET Dalen CuffESPN February is upon us and with only the Super Bowl left to wager on, we’re here to fill that void with College Hoops insight and opportunity as we build into the sport’s crescendo in March. We’ll begin with the futures market, a few conference champ races that provide great value.
8:00 AM ET Every NHL season, there’s a team whose success in the standings doesn’t sync up with some of its underlying numbers, leading fans to ask if they’re “actually this good.” So, are the New York Rangers actually this good? They’re second in the Metro Division with a 29-13-4 record (.674 points percentage). They
9:34 AM ET For only the second time in the rivalry’s history, the Florida Gators and Florida State Seminoles will not be playing on a Saturday, as the game in 2022 has been moved to the Friday after Thanksgiving. Florida State on Monday released its 2022 schedule, with the Seminoles slated to host the Gators
“You don’t have to be a captain to lead.” That’s the view of Hardik Pandya, who will lead the Ahmedabad franchise at IPL 2022. Pandya has captained only once at the senior level – in a tour game against Australia in 2017 – but he isn’t bothered about the lack of experience as he has
6:59 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — A 10-event run called the International Series will form part of this season’s Asian Tour in a Saudi-funded move that could prove to be a threat to golf’s two main tours. The series is being funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and
7:00 AM ET As we begin our ranking of the top 100 Major League Baseball players to ever take the diamond, it’s time to debate the stars who landed just outside of our list. With that in mind, we asked our MLB experts to find the one player not in this week’s top 100 they