9:06 PM ET ESPN Fantasy The ESPN staff got together for another fantasy football mock draft, this time using a 12-team, PPR Superflex format. •Field’s favorites for 2022• Cockcroft: Best picks in each draft slot• Bowen’s 18 favorite draft targets• Karabell: DO Draft | Do NOT Draft• Mocks: 12-tm superflex | 12-tm 1/2 PPR• Clay:
9:39 AM ET Akim Aliu, pro hockey player and the co-founder of the Hockey Diversity Alliance, has signed a multi-year partnership deal with adidas Canada to “remove barriers and bring about transformative change” in hockey. Aliu will be a brand ambassador for adidas, while the sports apparel company will work with him on various diversity
9:00 AM ET In the NHL, business is about to pick up. General managers are heading back to their offices and starting to work the phones again with agents. At least one team is assembling its coaching staff this week to begin prep for training camp, which begins around Sept. 21. This is good news
5:56 PM ET Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker insists the best fights of his career are ahead of him, saying he’s hungrier than ever as he prepares to face Marvin Vettori in Paris this weekend. It has been nearly seven months since Whittaker lost to fierce rival Israel Adesanya for a second time, albeit
Speaking on Wednesday in his capacity as league commissioner of South Africa’s new T20 franchise competition, the situation around the England allrounder was raised as a query given the unique position he is in. Moeen found himself in a conundrum when he was announced in the squads for both the Johannesburg Super Kings and the
8:00 AM ET The 2022 PFL finals are set for Nov. 25 at a location still to be announced. The finalists in six weight classes include several familiar faces, as well as some new ones. It has been an interesting season, with plenty of upsets befalling some of the promotion’s biggest homegrown names and free
8:13 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Fox and ESPN have agreed to engage in discussions with the Big 12 about the league’s next television contract, sources told ESPN. The imminent opening of these conversations is significant, as they come more than a year and a half before the league’s television contract calls for a formal, exclusive
7:00 AM ET College football is back, and talkin’ season is over. But boy, what a season of discontent it was. USC and UCLA set off another round of cataclysmic realignment discussions, announcing the plan to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten a year after Texas and Oklahoma declared their intentions to leave the
7:00 AM ET JULIO RODRIGUEZ WAS barely 18, playing baseball in the United States for the first time, when he made his biggest impression on a Seattle Mariners franchise that now adores him. It wasn’t how he hit or how he fielded or how he ran — it was how he watched. Minor league spring
7:30 AM ET Week Zero and the Bottom 10 are a marriage made in confusing, loser heaven. Just where did Nebraska land after their Big Ten opening loss to Northwestern? And where do the annual Bottom 10 powerhouses rank in the preseason standings? Inspirational thought of the week: I can’t say that I’m sorryFor the