7:32 AM ET ESPN staff Another top-five team lost. Water bottles flew from the stands. The coaching carousel continued — or at least will at the end of the season. And somehow, Week 7 of the college football season left us with more questions. Our reporters put this wild week into perspective and break down
7:31 AM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Lane Kiffin stood outside the visitor’s locker room at Neyland Stadium in the wee hours of Sunday morning proudly twirling a beaten-up yellow range ball and searching for a new visor. He’d just tossed his old visor to the jeering Tennessee fans as he exited a field littered with
7:00 AM ET On the last day of August, before the bottom of the second inning in a road game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora called his All-Star shortstop off the field. “Alex never took me out,” Xander Bogaerts told ESPN in an interview last week. Bogaerts knew something
6:50 AM ET Alaina GetzenbergESPN BUFFALO, N.Y. — Steve Christie doesn’t turn off blowout football games as early as he used to. Even when some leads seem insurmountable, the former Buffalo Bills kicker will leave the TV on and see how it ends. He’s seen too much, experienced the adulation that comes from winning the
6:57 AM ET Associated Press A college basketball player hatched the idea after seeing a discrimination case nearly implode his own team, then wondering why nobody had done anything about it sooner. Ten years later, that player has developed the idea into a key tool for fixing a sports landscape teeming with cases of sexual
Report Tasmania edged into a lead but a number of their batters didn’t convert starts Western Australia 238 and 1 for 42 lead Tasmania 252 (Neil-Smith 60, Webster 53*, Cartwright 4-23 Allrounder Hilton Cartwright produced the goods with the ball after star Western Australia quick Jhye Richardson was cut down by injury during the Sheffield
2:49 AM ET ATLANTA — Max Scherzer isn’t usually agreeable to being removed in the middle of a baseball game. It’s the type of situation that visibly enrages him and often sends his manager back into the dugout. But when Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts emerged onto the field at Truist Park in Sunday’s
Oct 17, 2021 ATLANTA — The first two games of the National League Championship Series have been riveting. They’ve been tight and tense. They’ve been dramatic. And, yes, they’ve been a little weird. The strangeness begins with the most important fact from the weekend: The 88-win Atlanta Braves lead the 106-win, defending champion Los Angeles
1:15 PM ET NFL NationESPN Week 6 of the 2021 NFL season saw Tua Tagovailoa return as the starting quarterback for the Dolphins in London against a struggling Jaguars team looking for its first victory. Tagovailoa led Miami to a touchdown on his first drive and the Dolphins led early, but Jacksonville rallied and hit
Venue: Roubaix, France Dates: 20-24 October Coverage: Live on BBC Four, Red Button, iPlayer & BBC Sport app Britain’s Olympic gold medallist Katie Archibald doesn’t need to get pumped up for the Track Cycling World Championships – just don’t try to ask her something when her headphones are on. Archibald, 27, aims to continue thriving
8:03 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Paula Badosa edged Victoria Azarenka 7-6 (5), 2-6, 7-6 (2) on Sunday to win the BNP Paribas Open in her debut in the Southern California desert, where the tournament returned after a 2 1/2-year absence because of the coronavirus. She joined Bianca Andreescu in 2019 and
6:09 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants defensive lineman Leonard Williams heard the boos from the home crowd in a 38-11 blowout loss on Sunday to the Los Angeles Rams at MetLife Stadium. He didn’t appreciate them, either. “I mean [the boos] do bother me, honestly. Obviously, we’re in our own home
8:57 PM ET CLEVELAND — Despite emerging from the postgame locker room Sunday wearing a sling on his non-throwing left shoulder, Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield vowed to play Thursday against the Denver Broncos. “Feels like s—,” Mayfield said of his injured shoulder before answering, “Yes,” when asked whether he believed he would still be
8:25 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Rory McIlroy capped a big weekend in Las Vegas on Sunday by surging past Rickie Fowler and holding off Collin Morikawa to win the CJ Cup at Summit for his 20th PGA Tour title. McIlroy seized control with a 35-foot eagle putt from just off the green
6:29 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN DETROIT — An emotional Dan Campbell shed tears after last week’s heartbreaking loss in Minnesota. But on Sunday in Detroit, the first-year Lions coach was visibly angry when they fell at home to Cincinnati, 34-11. Detroit’s energy and effort is what upset him the most, as they were never in
9:56 PM ET Free-agent quarterback Cam Newton said he has been vaccinated against COVID-19 and wants to keep playing football in a video published to his YouTube channel on Sunday. Newton, 32, was released by the New England Patriots shortly before the season. He had missed three practices because of what the Patriots called a
6:37 PM ET CHICAGO — Vintage Aaron Rodgers turned into unfiltered Aaron Rodgers on Sunday. It wasn’t necessarily what the Green Bay Packers quarterback did with his play in another of a long list of wins over the Chicago Bears. It was what he said in the Soldier Field end zone after his 6-yard touchdown
10:34 PM ET No head coach, no problem for the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. With Kliff Kingsbury home in Arizona after a positive COVID-19 test on Friday, the Cardinals kept their offense on track in a dominating 37-14 road win over the Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Stadium to improve to 6-0 and continue to their