Month: November 2023

Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterNov 2, 2023, 09:23 PM ET Close Previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and Oklahoma University for the Oklahoman. PITTSBURGH — Steelers linebacker Cole Holcomb was carted off with what coach Mike Tomlin called a “serious” knee injury late in the first quarter of Thursday night’s
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Associated Press Nov 3, 2023, 12:59 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PHOENIX — The San Antonio Spurs were flailing in the fourth quarter Thursday night, struggling to find their footing after the Phoenix Suns erased a 27-point lead and threatened to finish an epic comeback victory. Instead, Victor Wembanyama took over. It’s probably not the
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Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterNov 3, 2023, 12:02 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Purdue coach Ryan Walters, whose team visits No. 3 Michigan on Saturday, said his school has evidence the Wolverines scouted the Boilermakers’ games earlier this season. The NCAA is investigating
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Tim Bontemps, ESPNNov 2, 2023, 11:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PHILADELPHIA — Speaking for the first time since James Harden was traded to the LA Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid said he didn’t agree with Harden’s assessment that he was held back by the 76ers the past couple of years. “I don’t think
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ESPN News Services Nov 2, 2023, 11:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PITTSBURGH — Tennessee Titans wide receiver Treylon Burks was carted off in the final minutes against Pittsburgh on Thursday night with an injury. Burks tried to make a leaping fourth-down grab down the left sideline but saw the ball slip from his grasp.
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Nov 2, 2023, 09:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Cameron Percy of Australia fired a 10-under-par 62 Thursday afternoon to soar into the first-round lead at the World Wide Technology Championship in Los Cabos, Mexico. Percy holed a pitch shot for eagle at the 601-yard, par-5 sixth hole and added eight birdies without a bogey
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Nov 2, 2023, 02:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions So who saw Saarbrücken becoming a serious part of the narrative this week? Bayern Munich‘s Blamage (a great German word for “disgrace”) in the DFB-Pokal has only added another layer of interest and complexity to assessing how Saturday’s showpiece event might go. Internationally, the Borussia Dortmund-vs.-Bayern
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Associated Press Nov 2, 2023, 07:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Atlanta right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. was voted player of the year and the National League’s outstanding player by fellow major leaguers in the annual Players Choice Awards of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Los Angeles Angels designated hitter and
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Associated Press Nov 2, 2023, 07:14 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani, Cody Bellinger, Jordan Montgomery, Blake Snell and Aaron Nola were among the 130 players who became free agents Thursday as baseball’s business season began the day following the Texas Rangers‘ first World Series title. Max Muncy, Joe Jiménez and
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Kyle Bonaguara Nov 2, 2023, 07:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions In the ongoing legal battle for control of the Pac-12, the 10 departing universities expressed concern in a filing opposing a motion for preliminary injunction that if Oregon State and Washington State were to obtain complete control of the conference board, they could attempt
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Associated Press Nov 2, 2023, 07:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Texas Rangers 5-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks for their first championship on Wednesday night drew the largest audience of this World Series. However, it was not enough to prevent the five-game series from being the least-watched Fall Classic in recorded TV history.
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Pete Thamel, ESPNNov 2, 2023, 08:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Big Ten athletic directors met with commissioner Tony Petitti on a video call Thursday without Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel present, and sources told ESPN the call about Michigan’s alleged sign-stealing operation took on a distinctly different tenor than when they met a week
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Michael Rothstein, ESPN Staff WriterNov 2, 2023, 07:02 PM ET Close Michael Rothstein is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Rothstein covers the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow him via Twitter @MikeRothstein. Open Extended Reactions FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Desmond Ridder stood in front of a small group of microphones Thursday afternoon and insisted
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Paul Gutierrez, ESPN Staff WriterNov 2, 2023, 07:39 PM ET Close Paul Gutierrez joined NFL Nation in 2013 and serves as its Las Vegas Raiders reporter. He has a multi-platform role – writing on ESPN.com, television appearances on NFL Live and SportsCenter, and podcast and radio appearances. Before coming to ESPN, Gutierrez spent three years at CSN Bay Area
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