8:43 AM ET Eric MoodyESPN Close Former manager at a Fortune 100 financial services company, now living my dream creating fantasy and sports betting content about the NFL, NBA, and WNBA for ESPN. Read ESPN’s fantasy football Daily Notes every weekday to stay caught up on the news you need to know and get a
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9:30 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Perhaps the highest compliment about the most improbable college coaching career of this generation is that as time marches on, and new eras of homogenized football coaches emerge, explaining the Mike Leach coaching experience will sound like fiction. A former rugby player with no college football playing experience? A Pepperdine
10:49 AM ET Purdue has named Illinois defensive coordinator Ryan Walters, who oversaw the nation’s No. 1 unit for much of the season, as its next head coach. Walters, 36, has spent the past two seasons at Illinois and was a finalist for the Broyles Award, which goes to the nation’s top assistant coach. He
5:02 AM ET Adriana Garcia Brazil great Ronaldo believes Neymar and other Brazilian players should have psychological help to deal with the “disproportionate pressure” from the World Cup. Neymar admitted after his team’s World Cup quarterfinal defeat to Croatia on penalties that he was “psychologically destroyed.” “I would advise having a psychological support to withstand
10:15 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Naoya Inoue, ESPN’s No. 2 pound-for-pound boxer, has proved peerless through 24 fights as he cruised to another inside-the-distance victory on Tuesday in Tokyo. Paul Butler was no match. He really wasn’t ever expected to be. The Englishman was simply there to hand over his WBO belt to Inoue, who
Dec 13, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN Naoya Inoue, ESPN’s No. 2 pound-for-pound boxer, won the undisputed bantamweight championship with an 11th-round KO of Paul Butler on Tuesday in Tokyo. Butler was unwilling to engage throughout the ESPN+ bout, but Inoue still found a way to finish his foe. The Japanese star connected with a right hand
4:14 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Vegas Golden Knights leading scorer Jack Eichel was placed on injured reserve because of a lower-body injury, the club confirmed Monday. The designation means Eichel must miss at least seven days dating back to when he couldn’t physically play. Defenseman Zach Whitecloud went out Sunday with a
8:59 AM ET ESPN News Services Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach died Monday night after complications related to a heart condition, the school announced. He was 61. Leach suffered what the university initially described, in a news release, as a “personal health issue” at his home in Starkville on Sunday, which required him to
8:00 AM ET The NBA is renaming its annual regular-season MVP award after Michael Jordan, the player who topped ESPN’s ranking of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team named last season. The league unveiled the newly designed Michael Jordan Trophy on Tuesday, along with five other reimagined trophies named after league pioneers that will now be
8:44 AM ET Alaina GetzenbergESPN Wide receiver Cole Beasley is expected to come out of retirement to sign with the Buffalo Bills‘ practice squad, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. He helps fill a need at slot receiver for the Bills with production low at the position this season. Beasley, 33, spent two weeks on
3:00 PM ET Andre SnellingsESPN Here are a few Monday morning thoughts from the Hoops Lab, as we prepare for Week 9 of the fantasy basketball season. Keep in mind, the Fantasy Basketball Rest of Season Rankings also update on Mondays, so check those out as your prepare for this week’s games. Between the rankings
Andreas Seidl is to leave his position as McLaren team principal to head up Audi’s nascent Formula 1 programme at the Alfa Romeo/Sauber team. The 46-year-old German will be replaced at McLaren by Italian Andrea Stella, executive racing director since 2019. McLaren Racing chief executive officer Zak Brown described Stella as “highly talented, experienced and
6:35 AM ET NFL Nation reporters Welcome to Week 15 of the NFL regular season. Our power panel — a group of more than 80 writers, editors and TV personalities — has evaluated how teams are stacking up through 14 weeks. While we are at the point of the season where the rankings stay largely
6:30 AM ET It wasn’t just any year in college football. We’re going to have a College Football Playoff for the first time that doesn’t include Alabama or Clemson and one that does include TCU. There are similar surprises on ESPN’s 2022 All-America team. Some of the players on everybody’s radar when the season began
7:00 AM ET There has already been a lot of action in what will likely end up as the biggest MLB free agent extravaganza of all-time, but there are still plenty of solid players left on the market. After the most recent New York Mets-driven spending explosion and the flurry of activity yesterday, it’s a
McGrath, who made her T20I debut in October 2021, has already cemented her place in the Australia top order across formats. In T20Is, she has scored 485 runs in ten innings at an average of 121.25 and a strike rate of 149.69 so far. In the first T20I against India in the ongoing series, she
Frederic Vasseur will join Ferrari as team principal in January and will be replaced by McLaren boss Andreas Seidl, who will head up Audi’s nascent Formula 1 programme at Alfa Romeo/Sauber. The Frenchman, 54, who has been Alfa Romeo/Sauber’s managing director since 2017, will replace Mattia Binotto. The move by Seidl, 46, has not yet
3:33 AM ET LOS ANGELES – Kawhi Leonard looked and played the best he has since tearing his right ACL, and the LA Clippers enjoyed their best win of the season. Leonard made 10 of 12 shots, including two 3-pointers, and had 25 points, nine rebounds and six assists to lead the Clippers to a