1:36 PM ET Texas A&M running back Isaiah Spiller announced Tuesday that he will forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft. ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. lists Spiller as the third-best back in the draft. Spiller, a second team All-SEC selection, ran for 1,011 yards and six touchdowns on 179 carries this season. The
Month: December 2021
2:27 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Former Indiana quarterback Michael Penix Jr. has committed to Washington, he announced on Instagram on Tuesday. Penix played four seasons at Indiana before entering the transfer portal Dec. 5. He was the Hoosiers’ starter for three seasons but struggled to stay on the field, suffering season-ending injuries each year, including
1:01 PM ET Minnesota Wild GM Bill Guerin was named the general manager of the 2022 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team Tuesday, as concerns mount that NHL players may not participate in the Beijing Games. Guerin acknowledged the challenges that may keep NHL players from appearing in the 2022 Winter Olympics, a right they pushed
1:14 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Six Moroccan men’s tennis players, including four who played in the Davis Cup, have been banned in a match-fixing investigation, the International Tennis Integrity Unit said Tuesday. A hearing found the six players “were guilty of multiple offenses and a variety of match-fixing charges, including fixing elements of
12:17 PM ET Tiger Woods is returning to golf action this week. Perhaps you heard? Ten months since he rolled his SUV in a one-car crash in Los Angeles that could have cost him his leg, Woods is set to tee it up with his 12-year-old son, Charlie, at this week’s PNC Championship in Orlando.
11:28 AM ET Buck Showalter will be among the candidates to get a second round of interviews with the New York Mets concerning their vacant managerial position, sources told ESPN, confirming multiple reports. Joe Espada will have his second interview on Thursday, while Matt Quatraro will also return to talk to the Mets, sources confirmed
10:51 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants will again be without quarterback Daniel Jones this week against the Dallas Cowboys because of a neck injury, a source told ESPN. Jones underwent his weekly round of tests Monday and was not cleared for contact. The injury did not worsen, but the images
11:28 AM ET Associated Press ROCK HILL, S.C. — A coroner says an autopsy shows unusually severe brain disease in the frontal lobe of the former NFL player accused of fatally shooting six people in Rock Hill, South Carolina, before killing himself in April. The 20 years that former cornerback Phillip Adams spent playing football
11:16 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Since coming back from a calf injury, something has been off with Dak Prescott, but there is a divide on whether the Dallas Cowboys quarterback is in a slump. “I don’t want to say that, slump, but that’s probably fair,” owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Tuesday on
7:15 AM ET DENTON, Texas — Sarah Fuller walks toward the lobby at Ryan High School, a short drive from where she now plays college soccer, the University of North Texas. Ally Kolba giddily waits for her. She is nervous and excited and, when she sees Fuller come in the door, she whispers to her