11:38 AM ET NBA commissioner Adam Silver and his staff have conducted expanded talks with teams, players and agents about crafting a policy to manage widespread usage of COVID-19 vaccines around the league, sources told ESPN. Multiple COVID-19 vaccines are in final stages of approval, and the NBA could find itself as the first major
Month: December 2020
9:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN A day after Dustin Johnson slipped on the green jacket at Augusta National to commemorate his November win at the Masters, the U.S. Women’s Open Twitter handle posted a reminder: There’s more major golf to be played in this strange 2020 season. Accompanied by a video featuring Lexi Thompson, Annika
11:08 AM GMT Scotland coach Gregor Townsend has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him in charge until the 2023 World Cup, Scottish Rugby announced on Thursday, making him Scotland’s longest-serving coach in the professional era. Townsend, who won 82 caps for Scotland, took over as coach in June 2017 and has been
9:33 AM ET France’s Victor Perez carded a five-under-par 67 to take a one-shot lead in the first round of the DP World Tour Championship, the European Tour’s season finale, in Dubai on Thursday. Perez, 28, sank six birdies, offset by a bogey on the par-three fourth at the Jumeirah Golf estates’ Earth Course, to
8:00 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Tony Ferguson believes he is a big reason the UFC resumed operations as quickly as it did in 2020, and he theorizes that everyone profited from that quick return — except for him. Ferguson (25-4) will face Charles Oliveira (29-8) at UFC 256 on Saturday, in his first appearance
9:13 AM ET Associated Press Seattle’s star quarterback Russell Wilson and Kansas City’s standout tight end Travis Kelce are among the 32 finalists for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award. The award, to be presented during Super Bowl week at the NFL Honors television show when The Associated Press reveals its individual
8:30 AM ET WEST POINT, N.Y. — Army and Navy are playing at West Point on Saturday, one of the oddest turns in the oddest of seasons. They will not have the second Saturday in December to themselves, as has been the custom in recent years. They will play with only their fellow cadets and
6:00 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Darrell Bevell trusted Aaron Rodgers with an important task when he coached the Green Bay Packers quarterbacks in 2005. Find Brett Favre. “A lot of my time was spent walking around looking for Favrey,” Rodgers recalled Wednesday. “That was one of the my responsibilities as a rookie was
6:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Every team in the NFL undergoes turnover on an annual basis. But when it comes to defining how different the New England Patriots look since beating the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII 22 months ago, it truly is C-H-A-N-G-E. Perhaps you’ve heard quarterback Tom Brady is no
7:19 AM 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 THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Sean McVay’s patience had grown thin. His message behind closed doors wasn’t getting through. As a result, the Los Angeles Rams head coach