Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterDec 18, 2024, 10:15 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Open Extended Reactions Two days after Dave Clawson announced his resignation, Wake Forest is set to hire Washington State‘s Jake Dickert as his replacement, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Dickert is
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterDec 18, 2024, 09:59 AM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Ohio promoted Brian Smith to become its permanent head coach Wednesday. Smith, who served as the Bobcats’ offensive coordinator this season and has been part of the staff since 2022,
Pete Thamel, Senior College Sports InsiderDec 18, 2024, 09:46 AM ET Close College Football Senior Writer for ESPN. Insider for College Gameday. Open Extended Reactions In a dramatic shift, the Ivy League’s football teams are now going to be able to compete for FCS national championships, sources told ESPN. Starting in the 2025 season, the
Jeff Passan, Senior MLB InsiderDec 18, 2024, 08:40 AM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Open Extended Reactions The Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners voted 5-2 in favor of funding $312.5 million worth of bonds Tuesday night. What sounds like a
Associated Press Dec 18, 2024, 09:17 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — The ATP men’s tennis tour paid out $1.3 million to a total of 26 players in 2024 under a new financial program called Baseline that guarantees minimum annual incomes for players ranked in the top 250. Players received money in each of
Sanju Samson has been left out of Kerala’s squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy beginning December 21. The move comes on the back of an internal decision to include only those players who participated in a preparatory camp in the lead-up to the tournament. Samson had led Kerala in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT)
ESPN News Services Dec 18, 2024, 09:41 AM ET Herschel Walker, the football legend who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in Georgia, has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be ambassador to the Bahamas. Trump made the announcement Tuesday in a post on Truth Social, his social media website. He described Walker as “a
Dec 18, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions There’s lots to love about the 12-team playoff (unless you’re Alabama), but at the top of the list is this: We get three times as much star power this year. In the four-team era, the country wouldn’t get to see the explosiveness of Ashton Jeanty or
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderDec 18, 2024, 07:50 AM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions TYSON FURY ABSORBED 14 unanswered punches as Oleksandr Usyk threatened to
Rocky Flintoff has been handed an official call-up to the England Lions squad for next month’s tour of Australia, where his fortunes will once again be overseen by his father, Andrew. Flintoff, 16, was a last-minute addition to the Lions’ trip to South Africa earlier this month – his father’s maiden tour as head coach