5:36 PM ET Associated Press Paul Azinger used to say for years that the only thing that made a player choke was cash or prestige. So he’s not afraid to use the word “choke.” Just don’t expect to hear it when he takes over for Johnny Miller on NBC Sports next year. Azinger has pledged
5:39 PM ET Associated Press Syracuse coach Dino Babers is in a good place, with two quarterbacks who have excelled in this turnaround season. He doesn’t buy the notion that a controversy is brewing. “The quarterback is no different than any other player,” Babers said Monday. “We’ve got two good quarterbacks. I think we should
5:32 PM ET A grievance filed against the Bengals on behalf of Eric Reid was denied by an independent arbitrator, a source confirmed to ESPN. The NFL Players Association filed the grievance on behalf of Reid after Bengals owner Mike Brown reportedly asked if Reid would continue standing during the national anthem. Reid was brought
5:18 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — The New Orleans Saints went for it a whopping five times on fourth down Sunday during their most defining victory of the season — a 24-23 slugfest on the road against the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL’s No. 1-ranked defense. Apparently they took the same aggressive approach into this
4:10 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The New York Giants are in a rebuild. They won’t want to say it. Nobody likes that word in a sport where the current Super Bowl champion had a losing record the previous year. Admitting a rebuild is the equivalent of flipping the bird to your paying customers
4:18 PM ET Associated Press Roger Federer was tested by Filip Krajinovic before winning 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in the first round of his hometown tournament Swiss Indoors Tuesday. The top-seeded Federer seemed in control after winning seven straight games to take the first set and lead by a break in the second. The 35th-ranked Serb
12:44 PM ET BALTIMORE, Md. — The University System of Maryland Board of Regents met in closed session on Tuesday morning at their headquarters in Baltimore to discuss the findings of an investigation into allegations of a toxic culture within the football program at Maryland. The 17 regents each had a draft copy of the
10:00 AM ET Perhaps the idea of traveling across the globe right now was simply not very appealing. Or the period of rest and recovery from a long season of golf was not complete. Maybe he’s not a big fan of the Sheshan International course. There are myriad reasons why Tiger Woods could be skipping
4:26 PM ET Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — LSU coach Ed Orgeron hopes coaches will band together and demand changes to NCAA football’s targeting rule and how it is enforced. Orgeron’s suggestion comes just days after a target foul called last weekend LSU linebacker Devin White, a penalty which triggered White’s suspension for the first
7:30 AM ET The Cowboys made waves on Monday, sending a first-round pick to the Raiders for Amari Cooper. Dallas can’t afford to be too patient with its new wide receiver while he adjusts to a new offense, as the Cowboys’ passing attack ranks among the worst in the league. In a tight division race,