9:19 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow and Ohio State edge rusher Chase Young are among 58 prospects who will participate virtually in the NFL draft. Burrow is one of eight LSU players who will take part in the April 23-25 draft, one more than Alabama. Normally, top prospects
6:45 AM ET I love a good NFL mock draft, but there’s one problem with everyone’s favorite April exercise: The vast majority of mock drafts don’t feature trades, and in the modern NFL, trades are a must. Of last year’s 32 first-round picks, only 20 were made by the original team holding the selection. One
8:08 PM ET The two orthopedic surgeons directly involved in Tua Tagovailoa‘s hip surgery and recovery indicated that the quarterback would be fully healthy to participate when NFL training camp begins. Lyle Cain, the head team physician at the University of Alabama, and Chip Routt, a professor of orthopedic surgery at McGovern Medical School at
10:00 PM ET In the latest battle of Bill O’Brien versus any conceivable or feasible notion of draft pick value, the Texans fired off one of their last remaining selections to not solve their self-created problem, trading for wide receiver Brandin Cooks. Even if Cooks returns to his prior form, the Texans seem to operate
7:12 PM 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 The Los Angeles Rams are in the process of trading wide receiver Brandin Cooks to the Houston Texans, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The Texans will send
7:10 PM ET Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said Thursday that he still expects Navy and Notre Dame to open the season on Aug. 29 in Dublin, Ireland, but acknowledged the medical authorities monitoring the coronavirus pandemic will have the final say. “We’re going to play it,” Gladchuk told ESPN. “We expect this to pass.
7:33 PM ET Associated Press The International Tennis Federation is putting about half of its staff on furlough and cutting other employees’ salaries because of the coronavirus pandemic. The move includes a 30% pay drop in 2020 for ITF President David Haggerty and reductions of 10% or 20% for others. Haggerty wrote in an email
3:47 PM ET The manager for former UFC women’s strawweight champion Rose Namajunas says she withdrew from UFC 249 due to two deaths in the family related to the coronavirus. “Her hopes are to return to the Octagon as soon as possible but for now we ask for people to respect their privacy during this
6:52 PM ET Associated Press Carolina Hurricanes president and general manager Don Waddell said All-Star defenseman Dougie Hamilton, who broke his left leg in January, would be ready to play if the season resumes. Hamilton needed surgery and had been listed as out indefinitely before the season was suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a
6:03 PM ET UFC 249 will not proceed on April 18, despite Dana White’s efforts to move forward with the pay-per-view event, the UFC president told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto on Thursday. “Today, we got a call from the highest level you can go at Disney, and the highest level at ESPN … and the powers