9:00 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan After weeks of speculation about his health and future, Urban Meyer announced
Month: December 2018
12:00 PM ET Urban Meyer could have been remembered for the championships and the wins next to his name, the way he built up two smaller programs and revitalized two behemoths over a 34-year career that took him from high school assistant to coaching legend. On the numbers alone, history says he is one of
12:56 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Even on a night off, Florida Panthers star Aleksander Barkov got hit. No penalty was called. No foul was called either. Barkov had courtside seats to watch the Miami Heat on Sunday night against the Jazz — and got a closer view of Dwyane Wade than he expected.
12:51 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN After undergoing a physical, free agent center Joakim Noah is signing a one-year, veteran’s minimum contract with the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday worth a prorated $1.73 million, league sources told ESPN. Noah, 33, will serve as a backup center for the Grizzlies. He will join the team for Tuesday’s practice,
1:01 PM ET Texas freshman safety Caden Sterns is expected to be available for the Allstate Sugar Bowl after suffering a knee injury in Saturday’s Big 12 championship game. Sterns, who is the Big 12’s Defensive Freshman of the Year, left the Longhorns’ 39-27 loss to Oklahoma with the injury and didn’t return. MRI results
1:35 PM ET The Seattle Mariners‘ rebuild continued Monday with a deal that brought back an out-of-favor prospect who is just a half-season into his major-league career and sent one of Seattle’s best remaining players, Jean Segura, to a Philadelphia Phillies team that had a black hole at shortstop in 2018. Segura’s career has been
12:41 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Kurt Busch and sponsor Monster Energy will move to Chip Ganassi Racing next season for Busch’s 20th season in NASCAR. The partnership announced Tuesday is a one-year contract for Busch to drive the No. 1 Chevrolet with primary sponsorship from Monster. It is believed the one season
1:00 PM ET Sodiq Yusuff is used to fighting for his family — they are the reason he does it — but this last one was different. Yusuff (8-1) scored a first-round knockout against Suman Moktahrian in his UFC debut last weekend in Australia. The Nigerian featherweight immediately dedicated the performance to his older brother,
2:00 PM ET Paul LukasESPN.com Close Sports journalism’s foremost uniform reporter ESPN.com columnist since 2004 Also blogs at uni-watch.com Thanks to today’s NHL board of governors vote, it looks like an NHL team is coming to Seattle. But what should that team be called, and what should it look like? That was the subject of
2:20 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN The NHL will add a franchise in Seattle, the league announced Tuesday, following a unanimous vote by the board of governors. The league’s 32nd team will play in the Pacific Division and will be Seattle’s first winter sports franchise since the NBA’s SuperSonics left for Oklahoma City in 2008. You