8:15 AM ET Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Dave Wilson Close ESPN Staff Writer Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. Oklahoma State and Notre Dame
Month: December 2021
8:00 AM ET Alabama, Cincinnati, Georgia and Michigan will compete for the 2021 national championship in the College Football Playoff, and those teams are well represented on ESPN’s All-America team, as well. The Crimson Tide have four All-Americans, the Bulldogs have three and the Bearcats and Wolverines each have one. Of the 26 players included
7:25 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Former lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko returns to the ring for his second fight of 2021, as he faces Richard Commey in the main event of a Top Rank boxing card at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Saturday (5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN+). Lomachenko (15-2, 11 KOs), of Ukraine, hoped to
2:15 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Not long after Serena Williams‘ name was absent from the entry list for the Australian Open, she confirmed the obvious: the seven-time champion won’t play the 2022 edition of the season-opening major in January. The 40-year-old Williams hasn’t played since retiring from her first-round match at Wimbledon
6:52 AM ET Mercedes have agreed to end a sponsorship deal with insulation firm Kingspan, it was announced on Wednesday, amid a backlash about the Irish company’s link to Britain’s 2017 Grenfell Tower fire. Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire last week called for Lewis Hamilton’s team to reconsider a sponsorship deal due to Kingspan’s
News Top-order batter who also bowls left-arm spin was the highest run-getter in Bangladesh’s first-class tournament Mahmud, a left-handed top-order batter who also bowls left-arm spin occasionally, was the highest run-getter in Bangladesh’s first-class competition this season, making 603 runs at an average of 60.30. He made his ODI debut in October 2018, playing two
7:00 AM ET With another week of the 2021-22 NHL season in the background, the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers are among the teams who have made a jump in the rankings this week. And while every team has had its fair share of surprises during the campaign, we set out to identify
7:01 AM ET The NHL trade deadline is on March 21. But the moves we will see then are rooted in discussions that begin now. In fact, now that we’ve passed American Thanksgiving — the threshold many front offices use to assess whether their team will be a playoff team — trade chatter around the
3:20 AM ET Associated Press Ryder Cup winner Thorbjorn Olesen left court on Tuesday after giving evidence on the second day of a trial where he denies charges of sexual assault, assault by beating and being drunk on an aircraft from the US to the UK. Giving evidence earlier in the day, the Danish golfer
12:10 AM ET DALLAS — Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant understands the concern over his increased minutes, given his lengthy injury history that includes a ruptured Achilles tendon suffered two and a half years ago. He just doesn’t want to hear about it. “I know people might be concerned about my minutes and I got