Feb 22, 2020 Colorado officially named former Miami Dolphins assistant coach Karl Dorrell as their next coach on Sunday. The five-year, $18 million deal is pending approval from Colorado’s Board of Regents, according to a statement released by the school. Dorrell, who coached the Dolphins’ receivers, will succeed Mel Tucker, who left the Buffaloes to
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3:36 PM ET PITTSBURGH — A little more than five months after suffering a season-ending elbow injury, Ben Roethlisberger is throwing footballs again. The Steelers quarterback, who had surgery on his elbow in late September, was seen throwing a football in a gym in a video posted on Twitter by the team on Saturday afternoon.
2:20 PM ET Top seed Simona Halep came back from a set down for the third time in the tournament to beat Kazakhstan’s rising star Elena Rybakina 3-6 6-3 7-6(5) to win the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the second time on Saturday. In a battle that lasted nearly two-and-a-half hours, the match came
1:44 PM ET Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — A University of Utah Utes football player accused of raping a 17-year-old girl is facing additional charges after prosecutors say he also raped two women. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that 20-year-old Terrell Perriman is now charged with eight felonies, including three counts of rape. He
2:03 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — A paramedic was treating Ryan Newman inside his car 35 seconds after the ruined and flaming vehicle came to rest after a crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500. NASCAR gave a brief timeline Saturday of the response to Monday night’s airborne accident that was
5:39 PM GMT Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna USA Cricket board chairman Paraag Marathe and chief executive Iain Higgins
8:00 AM ET The NCAA Division I transfer waiver working group is considering a concept that would allow athletes in all sports to transfer once without sitting out a year of competition. If adopted by the Division I council, the new waiver criteria would allow athletes in all sports to compete immediately if they are
10:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The 2017 Houston Astros were cheaters. They were selfish, unfair, wrong. Their actions influenced opponents’ careers. Their championship is tarnished. And with all that being true, they
7:31 AM ET Navy offensive lineman David Forney died late Thursday night after he was found unresponsive in his dorm room, Naval Academy officials announced Saturday morning. Forney, from Walkersville, Maryland, was found by a fellow Midshipman. He was transported to Anne Arundel Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11:28 p.m. ET. He
6:00 AM ET Ed and Donna Kelce have slightly different versions of the epic fight between their sons Jason and Travis — the one that resulted in a shattered casserole dish and a shift in the dynamic between the highly competitive brothers. Both agree it carried over from the basketball court to the kitchen. Jason,
10:04 AM GMT West Indies 3 for 80 (Taylor 26*, Campbelle 25*) . beat Thailand 9 for 78 (Koncharoenkai 33, Taylor 3-13) by seven wickets West Indies opened their T20 World Cup campaign with a win they would have expected, though not without a sizeable fright chasing a small target against a Thailand combination that
1:49 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Before training camp, as nine new Oklahoma City Thunder players were getting to know one another while the organization itself was recalibrating to a post-Russell Westbrook world, Billy Donovan sat down with the three point guards on the roster and presented a bold plan. They — being Chris Paul,
1:49 AM ET ESPN News Services ANAHEIM, Calif. — It was one of the best days of Pavel Francouz‘s life. Francouz finalized a $4 million, two-year contract extension with the Colorado Avalanche, and then made 26 saves to record his first NHL shutout in the team’s 1-0 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night.
11:50 PM ET Chinese UFC strawweight champion Zhang Weili has made her way to the United States and is good to go for her scheduled title defense against Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 248 on March 7 in Las Vegas. Zhang’s manager, Brian Butler, told ESPN that she was scheduled to arrive in Las Vegas on
11:34 PM ET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria trailed Italy’s Gianluca Mager 7-6 (4), 2-1 on Friday when rain forced the suspension of their Rio Open quarterfinal until Saturday. Thiem will overtake Roger Federer for the No. 3 spot in the world if he beats Mager. Mager or Thiem
11:50 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Kyle Busch raced to his seventh straight NASCAR Truck Series victory to push his record total to 57, leading 108 of 134 laps Friday night at hometown Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion swept both stages and finished 5.958 seconds ahead of Johnny
8:00 AM ET Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan College football teams are turning the page to the 2020 season. For several of the sport’s historic programs,
10:24 PM ET AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has hit out at Yoel Romero‘s failure to travel to New Zealand to promote UFC 248 and promised to make the Cuban cry when the duo face off inside the Octagon in Las Vegas on March 7. Appearing on stage Saturday at Auckland’s Spark