7:00 AM ET LAS VEGAS — A year ago, Mark Davis stood at the northern end of Allegiant Stadium in the shadow of the massive Al Davis Torch and welcomed the Las Vegas Raiders players to their new home. The team owner called it the Death Star, “Where our opponents’ dreams come to die.” Alas,
1:53 PM ET Florida State coach Mike Norvell described his team as “sick to their stomach” after losing to FCS Jacksonville State, and vowed his players would not quit on the season in the face of such a dispiriting loss. During his Monday press conference with media in Tallahassee, a fired-up Norvell once again took
1:30 PM ET Sylvain Lefebvre is out as a Columbus Blue Jackets assistant over his decision to not receive a COVID-19 vaccine, general manager Jarmo Kekalainen confirmed Monday. “Per NHL protocol, he is unable to do the job we hired him for,” Kekalainen told ESPN. Last month, the NHL sent a memo to its teams
Preview Fitness permitting, Evin Lewis should be back for the Patriots after missing their last league fixture Big picture The perennial bridesmaids meet 2017’s losing finalists. The Guyana Amazon Warriors have been the nearly team throughout the history of the CPL, advancing to the final five times but never claiming the title. The St Kitts
1:00 PM ET UFC star Conor McGregor and singer Machine Gun Kelly got into an altercation Sunday night that nearly turned physical. McGregor and Kelly were both on the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet at Barclays Center in Brooklyn when things turned heated. McGregor could be seen in videos lunging at Kelly, who was
1:23 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Minnesota Twins‘ charter flight had mechanical problems, forcing the team to change planes. Manager Rocco Baldelli said the Twins arrived at their hotel in New York for their makeup game against the Yankees at about 1:30 a.m. Monday. Baldelli said the team originally was scheduled to
12:57 PM ET New York Jets left tackle Mekhi Becton is expected to miss four to six weeks to repair a knee injury suffered in Sunday’s loss to Carolina, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Becton needs arthroscopic knee surgery to clean up damaged cartilage, the source said. Becton was carted to the locker room
12:06 PM ET The Washington Football Team is placing quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick on injured reserve to the hip injury he suffered Sunday, coach Ron Rivera said Monday. Taylor Heinicke will start at quarterback on Thursday night against the New York Giants and Kyle Allen will be his backup. Fizpatrick is getting second opinions to determine
11:52 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Emma Raducanu‘s qualifier-to-champion run at the US Open vaulted her 127 spots in the WTA rankings to a career-high No. 23 on Monday. The 18-year-old from Britain began the year ranked 345th, rose to 179th in July by reaching Wimbledon’s fourth round in her Grand Slam debut
Venue: Flanders, Belgium Dates: 19-26 September Coverage: Live on BBC Two, BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and app, and through Connected TVs The UCI Road World Championships will be held in Flanders, Belgium from 19-26 September – and all the elite action will be shown live on the BBC. Based around the
12:30 PM ET October is right around the corner. Wondering which teams will be playing in the 2021 MLB playoffs? Well, we’re about to find out. With the final stretch of the Major League Baseball season in full swing, teams are getting ready to clinch postseason berths — whether it’s a division crown and a
12:37 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Gleyber Torres is being moved back to second base from shortstop by the New York Yankees. Torres, 24, was primarily a second baseman during his first two seasons with the Yankees in 2018 and 2019. He filled in at shortstop when Didi Gregorius got hurt and was
12:44 PM ET Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday that Casey Thompson will replace Hudson Card as the Longhorns’ starting quarterback. Card, who started the first two games, was 8-of-15 for 61 yards and was sacked three times in the Longhorns’ 40-21 loss to Arkansas. Thompson, who also played in the second half against Louisiana,
11:32 AM ET Tulane‘s football team will return to campus and play its first game there since Hurricane Ida on Sept. 25 when it hosts UAB at Yulman Stadium. The Green Wave left campus for Birmingham, Alabama, before the storm hit, and all of Tulane’s athletic operations have been taking place there. Tulane moved its
10:03 AM ET The new legal sports betting market in the U.S. just experienced its busiest four-day stretch ever as the NFL season kicked off. GeoComply, a company that provides geolocation services to sportsbooks, tracked 58.2 million online transactions that took place Thursday through Sunday with sportsbooks in 18 states and the District of Columbia.
10:57 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN DETROIT, Mich. — Detroit Lions cornerback Jeff Okudah ruptured an Achilles tendon and is out for the season, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Okudah limped off the field slowly, before being carted to the locker room, with the Lions trailing big to the San Francisco 49ers early in the
Sep 13, 2021 Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The season-ending WTA Finals have been moved from China to the Mexican city of Guadalajara, the WTA said Monday. The tournament was supposed to be held in the Chinese city of Shenzhen in November. The WTA didn’t give a reason for the switch but said the
9:00 AM ET The incorporation of defensive categories – such as blocked shots – into ESPN’s standard game has changed the way we look at blueliners through the fantasy scope. It’s no longer about those precious few candidates who shoot the puck with abandon and contribute regularly with the extra skater. Beginning for the first