10:02 AM ET The Chicago Blackhawks fired Joel Quenneville on Nov. 6, and have gone 3-11-2 under the guidance of Jeremy Colliton. While the bitter cold of winter sets in, we offer up some optimism: What’s a reason for hope for Blackhawks fans right now? Greg Wyshynski, senior NHL writer: The hope for Blackhawks fans
Month: December 2018
10:11 AM ET Robert Sanchez Mookie Betts is No. 14 on ESPN The Magazine’s list of the most dominant athletes of the year. Click here for more on the Dominant 20, which also includes Mike Trout, at No. 20. It’s July 12 at Fenway Park, and Mookie Betts‘ Boston Red Sox are down 2-1 in
8:00 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes‘ use of the no-look pass started innocently enough. He was fooling around with it in college at Texas Tech and eventually worked his way up to a competition with one of the backup quarterbacks. Mahomes found out he was good at looking one way and getting
1:32 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN MOBILE, Ala. — It was early Saturday morning when Mobile’s biggest active homegrown star athlete, Golden State Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins, welcomed 100 hand-picked students into an airline hangar, instantly recognizing the unmistakable surprise on each of the kids’ faces. The Warriors had just closed out a road win over
7:00 AM ET When the NFL released its schedule last spring, we figured the game of the year in the AFC would be in Week 15, and we were right. What we didn’t realize was that it would be in Kansas City, not Pittsburgh. Yeah, the New England Patriots are playing the Pittsburgh Steelers again
7:00 AM ET Seth Walder Hank Gargiulo Close ESPN Analytics Data management analyst at ESPN Graduate of Sacred Heart University Any given Sunday … every quarterback has a shot to sit atop the Total QBR leaderboard. While QBs are most often judged by wins and losses or touchdowns and interceptions, we like to rank them
8:41 AM ET Lindsey Thiry Close ESPN Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball Tim McManus There was no doubt that Jared Goff and Carson Wentz would be taken with the top picks in the 2016 NFL draft, the only
Methodology Who was truly elite in 2018? Our Dominant 20 answers that by pitting the year’s best against their top rivals with cold, hard math. We started by grading athletes by the strongest performance measures available in their sport over their most recently completed season (except F1 numbers, which are through Nov. 11, and NFL
Craig Burley explains how Paul Pogba’s current mindset and relationship with Jose Mourinho is negatively impacting Man United’s team dynamic. For all the justified criticism he gets for Manchester United’s Premier League form, Jose Mourinho deserves praise for his side qualifying for the Champions League’s Round of 16 with one game to spare. As he
Stevie Nicol weighs in on the latest transfer rumours including Marcus Rashford or Alvaro Morata to Milan, Miguel Almiron to Newcastle and more. FC Cincinnati added five players to its roster on Tuesday, with its selections in the 2018 expansion draft, while executing two trades. Cincinnati selected D.C. United forward Darren Mattocks, FC Dallas midfielder