8:00 AM ET Dan Mullen ran into Steve Spurrier on Monday inside the Florida football offices, and for the second time this season, the former Gators coach gave something to the current Gators coach: a bottle of wine to celebrate another milestone. The first time, Spurrier gave Mullen a gift after the Gators’ offense set
Month: November 2020
7:00 AM ET NFL NationESPN We’re roughly halfway through an NFL season unlike any we’ve seen before amid the coronavirus pandemic. Every team has now played at least eight games, so it is time to take stock of the first half and look at what lies ahead as the playoffs near. How do we describe
5:31 PM ET WEST POINT, N.Y. — Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams is uniquely suited to appreciate the interconnection between football and cadet life at the United States Military Academy. Williams, the West Point superintendent, played defensive end for the Black Knights in the early 1980s. He chased Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie of Boston
6:44 AM ET The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) suspended Dutch cyclist Dylan Groenewegen on Wednesday for nine months after causing a crash that resulted in compatriot Fabio Jakobsen being placed in a medically induced coma in August. Groenewegen, who rides for the Jumbo-Visma team, was jostling for position with Jakobsen in the final metres of
7:15 AM ET The 2020-21 men’s college hockey season is going to happen. On Friday night in South Bend, Indiana, Wisconsin will face Notre Dame in the first official game of the season — only about a month after the season would normally start. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, this did not always seem possible. Players
12:01 PM GMT Bruce French has stepped down from his role as national lead wicketkeeping coach at the ECB to spend more time with his family. French, a former England wicketkeeper himself, has earned an excellent reputation as a specialist coach and joined the ECB in 2009. In that time, he has played a significant
7:53 AM ET British Cycling has dismissed one of its top coaches after finding him guilty of gross misconduct including inappropriate relationships with riders. Head men’s sprint coach Kevin Stewart, who worked with six-time Olympic track champion Jason Kenny, had been given repeated warnings about his behaviour, British Cycling said in a statement. “While this
5:17 PM ET Bob McClellanNFL The Tampa Bay Buccaneers might have removed themselves from Super Bowl contention with Sunday night’s ugly 38-3 loss to the visiting New Orleans Saints. No team to win a Super Bowl has suffered a loss as bad as that one. Interestingly, though, a Tom Brady-led New England Patriots team that
7:00 AM ET There has been a lot of talk about the bad football being played in the NFC East. But while one coast struggles, the other has been thriving. The NFC West is dazzling (Week 9 excepted), as the Seattle Seahawks have arguably the most exciting offense in the league and the MVP favorite
11:31 AM GMT Rohit Sharma will not be part of the Indian contingent flying from Dubai to Sydney on Wednesday for the Australia tour. Sharma, who led the Mumbai Indians to their fifth IPL title on Tuesday, will instead return home to recover completely from the hamstring injury he suffered during the IPL. The Indian