Nov 1, 2022 Associated Press PARIS — Rafael Nadal is a different man. He’s losing sleep over his newborn baby and not so much the No. 1 ranking. Even with all of his absences, Nadal has a shot at finishing the season as the world No. 1. He has racked up 5,820 points, trailing only
Month: November 2022
11:31 AM ET Free agency is coming to LIV Golf. Only two days after capturing LIV Golf’s first team championship at Trump National Doral in Miami, 4 Aces GC captain Dustin Johnson is shaking up his team’s roster for 2023, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. Talor Gooch is moving to the Niblicks GC, which
Glenn Phillips and Mitchell Santner have thrown their support behind struggling captain Kane Williamson, backing him to come good “at some point”. Williamson’s performance came under scrutiny after New Zealand lost to England by 20 runs in Brisbane. The New Zealand captain faced 40 balls, and scored as many runs, taking his tally at this
12:35 PM ET The Detroit Lions traded tight end T.J. Hockenson to the division rival Minnesota Vikings on Tuesday. The Lions received a 2023 second-round pick and a 2024 third-round pick, while the Vikings got a 2023 fourth-round selection and a conditional 2024 fourth-round pick along with Hockenson. The conditional 2024 fourth-round pick that Detroit
10:56 AM ET Pedro Grifol is expected to be the next manager of the Chicago White Sox, an announcement that could come later this week, according to multiple sources. Grifol, 52, has been on the staff of the Kansas City Royals since 2013, most recently as the bench coach. The Royals interviewed him recently for
10:32 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Pete Thamel Georgia outside linebacker Nolan Smith, the No. 1-ranked Bulldogs’ leading pass-rusher this season, will miss the rest of the season with a torn pectoral muscle, sources confirmed
10:40 AM ET Stephen HolderESPN INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts‘ anemic offense has claimed another victim. One week after the team benched veteran starting quarterback Matt Ryan, the Colts on Tuesday announced that offensive coordinator Marcus Brady has been relieved of his duties. “This was an incredibly hard decision, but one I felt needed to be
7:00 AM ET BERKELEY, Calif. — Oregon quarterback Bo Nix took a seat, exhaled and looked out at the small, crowded room full of reporters ready to ask him about the Ducks’ game against Cal. He wore frustration across his face, bordering on sheer disappointment. Had anyone not been watching the game that had just
9:07 AM ET Trick or treat. On Monday night, we had to choose. Something sweet to consume or something clever that someone comes up with, maybe even something we’ve never seen before? On Sunday evening at Martinsville Speedway, we weren’t forced to pick one or the other. We got it all at once. And that
9:24 AM ET Adam Zimmer, the son of former Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer and an NFL assistant coach for 16 seasons, died Monday at age 38. Corri Zimmer White, Mike’s daughter and Adam’s sister, confirmed the news Tuesday morning on Instagram. No cause of death was given. Adam Zimmer joined the Vikings’ coaching staff
8:00 AM ET THE BROOKLYN NETS have just completed their fourth official practice of the season inside their gleaming training center, three miles from Barclays Center, with a beautiful view of the Manhattan skyline. Kevin Durant, who had turned 34 a day earlier on Sept. 29, walks over to the assembled media and quickly tries
8:00 AM ET Brian Windhorst and a team of ESPN’s Insiders sort out life and the news from in and around the NBA world. For a long time, the greatest compliment you might have been able to pay LeBron James or Kevin Durant was they were … inevitable. Maybe the stars of the Los Angeles
8:00 AM ET The 2022-23 men’s college basketball season is six days away, and ESPN.com’s panel of experts continues to provide everything you need to know about the nation’s top conferences before tip. They’ve squared away the mid-majors, the American, the Pac-12, the Big East, the Big Ten and the SEC. The focus now turns
7:00 AM ET GRAPEVINE, Texas — It never fails. Somebody will be angry. Maybe two somebodies. TCU? Clemson? Everyone outside the SEC East and Big Ten East? When 13 people are sequestered around a table for a day and a half to sort out what college football fans have been arguing over for weeks, there’s
7:00 AM ET There’s a famous story about Brad Marchand‘s exit meetings in Boston after his rookie season. Throughout Marchand’s draft process and early in his pro hockey career, he was often reminded of what he couldn’t achieve. NHL teams believed he was too small (a 5-foot-9 forward was especially undersized as he was breaking
It is not often that Zimbabwe stand a decent chance of qualifying for the semi-final of an ICC tournament. They were one win away from making the final four of the ICC Knockout – later renamed Champions Trophy – in 2000, but fell short against New Zealand; they made the Super Sixes in the 2003
3:52 AM ET Associated Press Mana Shim, a former National Women’s Soccer League and the U.S. under-23 national team player, will chair the U.S. Soccer Federation’s taskforce to prevent the abuse and harassment of women that was found to be systemic in the sport. The USSF created a participant safety taskforce following a report issued
6:35 AM ET NFL Nation reporters Welcome to Week 9 of the NFL regular season. Our power panel — a group of more than 80 writers, editors and TV personalities — evaluated how teams are stacking up through eight weeks. There was movement in our top 10, but the top three remain unchanged. The Seattle