7:30 AM ET The NFC East is the NFC Least. It’s not just bad — it’s worse than last season. The Dallas Cowboys can’t stop a nosebleed, the New York Giants can’t reach the end zone, the Philadelphia Eagles barely have a recognizable offensive lineman or wide receiver and the Washington Football Team doesn’t even
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4:07 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The most coveted seat in NASCAR belongs to Alex Bowman in a Hendrick Motorsports lineup shuffle to replace seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson in the iconic No. 48 Chevrolet. Bowman and crew chief Greg Ives, who won five championships with Johnson as his engineer, will move from the
2:13 PM BST Wales coach Wayne Pivac has named seven uncapped players in his 38-man squad for the finish to the 2020 Six Nations and the inaugural Autumn Nations Cup, with exciting winger Louis Rees-Zammit among those hoping to make his debut. The Gloucester player is one of five uncapped backs, along with scrum-half Kieran
Italy’s Luca Wackermann was taken to hospital after a helicopter “flying too low” caused a crash near the end of stage four of the Giro d’Italia. Vini Zabu-KTM’s Wackermann and Etienne van Empel both fell in the incident. Dutch rider Van Empel was able to get back up but his team-mate was less fortunate. “Wackermann
12:47 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — NHL teams continue to clear salary cap space with free agency starting later this week. The Detroit Red Wings placed forward Justin Abdelkader on unconditional waivers Tuesday for the purpose of buying out his contract. The Montreal Canadiens did the same with defenseman Karl Alzner, who had
Britain’s Geraint Thomas was forced to pull out of the Giro d’Italia because of a fractured hip. The Ineos Grenadiers rider, 34, crashed just before the start of Monday’s third stage after a drinks bottle became lodged under his front wheel. A scan on Monday was inconclusive but a second on Tuesday showed a fracture.
12:19 PM ET The Latin America Amateur Championship, whose winner gets an automatic invitation to The Masters and The Open, has been canceled for 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The event, which is sponsored by the USGA, the R&A and The Masters and has been played since 2014, was scheduled for Jan. 14-17
7:26 AM ET This is the third NBA Finals in six seasons in which injuries have either completely changed the series midstream or forced one team to game-plan for two different opponents. The Los Angeles Lakers, under at least a little pressure after the Miami Heat‘s rousing Game 3 win saw L.A.’s series lead tighten
11:54 AM ET Associated Press Charlotte Thomas has withdrawn from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after her caddie tested positive for the coronavirus. Thomas dropped out because she was in close contact with the caddie and will begin a 14-day quarantine. Thomas, 27, was among the field set to play beginning Thursday at Aronimink Golf
10:54 AM ET The latest transfer window in history has finally closed and as you’d expect, some clubs and players have done better than others. Some teams did their business early, while others left it to the last minute after scrambling around for deadline-day bargains — although time will tell whether they are canny transfers
9:30 AM ET Dr. Brad Teague has heard your jokes. Central Arkansas’ athletic director knows they’re the go-to Twitter suggestion when a team has to postpone a game (and many teams have had to postpone a game in 2020). That’s what happens when a relatively unknown school puts together one of the most unusual schedules
10:40 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — After becoming the first qualifier to reach the women’s semifinals at Roland Garros in the Open era, Nadia Podoroska threw her racket in the air, tilted her head back and pumped both fists. Podoroska had just knocked out Elina Svitolina, the French Open’s third seed who, on Tuesday,
7:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” The writer Kurt Vonnegut once took to a chalkboard to lecture on the simple shapes that most popular stories follow. In his first example — “Man in Hole” — a protagonist starts
7:30 AM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Twirling his whistle furiously, John Chavis instructs one of his linebackers to get wider. “Line up right there on his foot,” Chavis barks. “Let’s run it again. On the hop. Let’s go!” It’s reminiscent of the way the man they call “Chief” coached the game for 30 consecutive years
10:18 AM ET Prosecutors in France have opened an investigation into match-fixing at the ongoing French Open, according to French news service AFP. The target is a doubles match featuring Romanian pair Andreea Mitu and Patricia Maria Tig, and Yana Sizikova of Russia and her American partner, Madison Brengle. No individual player has been named
2:05 PM GMT The BCB has announced a one-day competition between three teams – to be led by Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah and Najmul Hossain Shanto – between October 11 and 23 to build up towards the return of domestic cricket in Bangladesh. The three teams will play each other twice in the league stage, with
9:05 AM ET The buzz is getting louder, and the reality of another major boxing-MMA crossover event seems more likely by the day. But who will be involved? Could it be a rematch between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather, which was an incredibly successful venture the first time it happened, in 2017? They’ve certainly been
6:45 AM ET NFL NationESPN While the NFL Power Rankings are a weekly thing, it’s never too early to jump ahead and look toward the playoffs. With roughly a quarter of the season in the books, that’s what we’re doing. This week, we determined each team’s postseason chances, according to the ESPN Football Power Index