9:54 AM ET Detroit Lions running back D’Andre Swift is unlikely to play in Thursday’s game against the Houston Texans, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Swift would miss his second straight game after suffering a concussion during the week before Sunday’s loss to the Carolina Panthers and sitting out that contest. He was listed as
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8:52 AM ET The Baltimore Ravens had additional positive tests for COVID-19 on Wednesday, a source told ESPN, marking the fourth day of a coronavirus outbreak among the team that led to the postponement of Thursday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. As of Wednesday, the Ravens had seven players who tested positive for COVID-19 or
8:05 AM ET Like most things in 2020, college football’s rivalry week is a little askew. Conferences staggered their starts. Due to the truly regional nature of the sport, there’s no uniform approach. Some leagues played nonconference games, while others haven’t. An extremely nontraditional year means our hallowed traditions are upended: Florida isn’t playing Miami
6:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Doug Nussmeier has had one of the most difficult jobs in the NFL in 2020. The first-year Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks coach started the season with Dak Prescott on pace for a career high in passing yards, but then Prescott got hurt in Week 5 against the New York Giants.
7:00 AM ET When life went virtual this spring — including the Houston Texans‘ offseason program — defensive end J.J. Watt had to decide what people could see in the background on Zoom calls. The defensive end made sure three things were visible behind him in his home office: his NFL Defensive Player of the
6:50 AM ET The 2020 NFL season has arguably been the weirdest in league history. Next year will hopefully be something closer to normal, but the league’s pending free agents will be in a bind with the salary cap projected to fall to $175 million. Teams that have relied on steady cap increases will be
6:28 AM ET Associated Press JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The Saudi International in its third year is shaping up as one of the strongest fields on the European Tour with commitments from Masters champion Dustin Johnson, U.S. Open winner Bryson DeChambeau and a curious one from Paul Casey. Tournament organizers said on Thursday that seven
Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley has become the third senior public-facing Formula 1 figure to contract coronavirus. Wheatley, 53, tested positive during mandatory testing in the UK last week and will miss this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. He is not unwell and has since returned a negative test. It is not yet clear whether
Nov 25, 2020 Not long after Leeds United established themselves as one of English football’s powerhouses in the early 1970s, then-manager Don Revie engaged in a public relations drive to change the club’s image. In an effort to rid themselves of the tag “Dirty Leeds,” which followed the club due to their combative and confrontational
7:59 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Devon Conway, the South Africa-born batsman who qualified for New Zealand this August, is just “focusing on the task on hand” as he braces for a much-awaited international debut. Conway, 29, led the run-charts in the Plunket Shield, One Day Trophy and T20 Super Smash last season, and has been
12:42 AM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Jim Hanifan, the former St. Louis Cardinals football coach who returned to the city as offensive line coach to help the Rams win the Super Bowl, has died. He was 87. Hanifan’s daughter, Kathy Hinder, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he died Tuesday at Missouri Baptist
11:00 PM ET We finally got college basketball on Wednesday. Sure, it wasn’t as much as we hoped and the marquee game originally expected to highlight the slate (Arizona State-Baylor) didn’t happen, but there was certainly college basketball — and plenty of it. Was it a normal opening day? Not really, but what’s normal in
1:05 PM ET ESPN staff The Week 12 NFL schedule begins with some great Thanksgiving Day football. Our NFL Nation reporters bring us the keys to every game, a bold prediction for each matchup and final score picks. Additionally, ESPN Stats & Information provides a stat to know for each game, and the Football Power
7:35 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald has not recorded a sack or even a tackle over the past two games, something the two-time NFL Defensive Player
7:55 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Charlie Morton is back with the team where his big league career started. Not that he has a lot of memories from that rookie season with the Atlanta Braves. “That was 11 years ago,” Morton said Wednesday. Actually, it was 12. “I don’t remember a whole lot about
7:02 PM ET Associated Press PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan — Fred Sasakamoose, one of the first Indigenous players in the National Hockey League, has died after fighting COVID-19. He was 86. Sasakamoose’s son, Neil, said in a video posted on Facebook that his father died Tuesday in Prince Albert. “This COVID virus just did so much
6:18 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — One day after it was announced that San Francisco 49ers cornerback K’Waun Williams had been suspended for two games for violation of the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing substances, that suspension has been rescinded, according to the league. Williams had been caught off guard by the suspension and further
6:35 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Fans will find out Sunday night if Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers got his wish: a return of the old Lambeau Field fan favorites, including “Roll Out The Barrel” and the beer bottle races on the video board, even though the stadium still will be without fans.