Month: December 2022

3:38 PM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel spoke to the media on Wednesday for the first time after general manager Jon Robinson was fired and said it’s important for the organization
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3:25 PM ET Michigan starting point guard Jaelin Llewellyn will miss the rest of the season after suffering a torn ACL in Sunday’s loss to Kentucky, the school announced. Llewellyn is expected to undergo surgery in early January. “Although this is not how I imagined my season here at Michigan would end, the support and
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1:26 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets‘ revolving door at offensive tackle continued Wednesday, as they placed rookie right tackle Max Mitchell on the non-football injury list. His season is over. Mitchell is one of six different players to start at left or right tackle for the Jets, who started losing
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1:21 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis will not play in Wednesday’s game against the Toronto Raptors. James is dealing with left ankle soreness, according to the team, and will miss his first game since sitting out more than two weeks in November with a strained left adductor. Davis will
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1:48 PM ET Minnesota signed coach P.J. Fleck to a contract extension, the school announced Wednesday. Fleck’s seven-year extension will keep him in the Twin Cities through the 2029 season. Financial terms of the extension weren’t disclosed. “This is all about cultural sustainability,” Fleck said in a statement. “We have talked about that from day
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11:36 AM ET DJ Bien-AimeESPN The Houston Texans have benched quarterback Kyle Allen after two starts in favor of former starter Davis Mills. Mills struggled in his first 10 starts, with a completion percentage of 61.9% and a passer rating was 78.1, ranking in the bottom 10 in the NFL in both categories. Mills’ record
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1:08 PM ET The St. Louis Cardinals have found their replacement for the spot vacated by longtime catcher Yadier Molina, reaching a five-year, $87.5 million deal with free agent Willson Contreras on Wednesday, a source familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Contreras, 30, has spent the past 14 seasons in the rival Chicago
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12:59 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne said Wednesday he doesn’t expect the SEC to further expand “in the short term” while speaking at the Sports Business Journal Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum. “I sure think so,” Byrne said when he was asked if the conference is done adding more teams. “I can
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12:20 PM ET Buffalo Bills star pass-rusher Von Miller has a torn ACL and will miss the rest of the season, coach Sean McDermott announced Wednesday. Miller has already underwent surgery to repair the injury, McDermott said. The Bills placed Miller on injured reserve last Thursday, but the team had hoped he would be able
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11:00 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Timothy Bradley Jr., the two-division champion who defeated Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez, will join those fighters in the International Boxing Hall of Fame when the Class of 2023 is inducted in the summer, it was announced Wednesday. Carl Froch, who faced a who’s who of the super middleweight
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10:44 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Closer Kenley Jansen and the Boston Red Sox are in agreement on a two-year, $32 million contract, sources told ESPN, bolstering a Boston bullpen that ranked among the worst in baseball during
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9:00 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — The locker room doors opened and music filled the room following the Philadelphia Eagles‘ Week 12 win over the Green Bay Packers. Players bustled about. Some laughing. Some dancing. Some shouting out profanity to no one in particular (Darius Slay, still mad he couldn’t pull in an Aaron Rodgers interception).
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10:44 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Left-hander Jose Quintana and the New York Mets are in agreement on a two-year, $26 million contract, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday. Quintana will slide into the Mets’ rotation behind co-aces Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander. The Mets have already lost two
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6:29 AM ET Erik ten Hag has said Manchester United are “looking to the future” following Cristiano Ronaldo‘s acrimonious departure from the club. Ronaldo is a free agent after he mutually agreed to terminate his contract with United in November following a controversial interview before the World Cup. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more
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