9:09 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show George Groves has dismissed suggestions that height and reach will be decisive against Callum Smith and has opened up on his future plans ahead
8:00 AM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. — Go ahead, call it a byproduct of Jon Gruden’s reimagined version of the West Coast offense. That part where Gruden senses a mismatch in the Oakland Raiders‘ passing game and a different pass-catcher goes off, every week. In the opener, it was Jared Cook who set a franchise-record for
8:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — When the New England Patriots acquired defensive tackle Danny Shelton in a trade with the Cleveland Browns this offseason, the hope was he would make them stronger at the line of scrimmage. His forte is playing the run. When the Patriots signed defensive tackle Lawrence Guy to a four-year
8:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — The first reaction to a plan that’s not working is to burn the whole thing down. Fire everybody. Rip out that play from the playbook and put in a different one. That’s the emotion talking. Next comes the more rational approach. Analyze what worked well and what didn’t and
8:00 AM ET PITTSBURGH — The Steelers know Antonio Brown is due a signature go-off game soon enough, but his modest output Monday night in Tampa Bay signals growth for Pittsburgh’s offense. Brown got a modest nine targets, and his total of six catches for 50 yards and a score didn’t seem out of place.
Central Coast coach Mike Mulvey says January will be the time to assess the progress of Usain Bolt, who’s set to have his next preseason hit-out for the Mariners in mid-October. The Jamaican superstar who’s striving to earn a contract, has been earmarked to potentially play against aspiring A-League club Macarthur South West United at
5:26 AM ET Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has indicated that Esteban Ocon and George Russell may find themselves without an F1 drive in 2019, and that he is not willing to enter into a bidding war for the remaining seats on the 2019 grid. Ahead of the final rounds of this year’s Formula 2
8:20 AM BST Referees admit the new “nipple line” is proving difficult to monitor, as World Rugby strives to lower concussion rates. Data collated by the sport’s world governing body from head injury assessments (HIA) in major competitions across both hemispheres between 2013 and 2015, showed 76 per cent of concussions were caused in the
8:15 AM ET PARIS — After capturing the Tour Championship on Sunday and winning for the 80th time on the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods had several media obligations before he could rush to the Atlanta airport, where he would be meeting with his U.S. Ryder Cup teammates before traveling to Paris. A large convention room
7:28 AM ET PARIS – If there was any thought of putting Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson together as a team at the Ryder Cup, U.S. captain Jim Fuyrk all but put an end to it Wednesday. The improved relationship of the two American stars along with some arguments, however dubious, for such a pairing