7:04 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Look, sometimes you just blow it. You go into the season with a well-thought-out plan at some position, you put your faith in the talented players whom you’ve acquired to fill that
Month: January 2019
10:20 AM ET At the midpoint of the NHL season, teams are beginning to assess their chances at making the postseason and preparing to make decisions about whether to buy, sell or stand pat at the trade deadline. While every team that is on the outside of the playoff race has some sort of shot
12:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — John Elway still has optimism, even as he looks for his fourth head coach in his tenure as the Denver Broncos‘ top football executive. As the Broncos have missed the playoffs for the third straight season, and fired coach Vance Joseph on Monday, Elway has taken plenty of blame
12:00 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars (5-11) have much to fix after an embarrassing and disappointing 2018 season. Find a quarterback. Make some cuts for salary-cap reasons. Re-work the tight end, running back and wide receiver positions. Get three key offensive linemen healthy in time for the 2019 season. Those are the
12:00 AM ET Over the past six weeks we’ve heard a lot about bowl games. We’ve heard there are too many. We’ve heard they mean less in the College Football Playoff era. We’ve heard that stars bailing early for the NFL have neutralized their importance. But an interesting thing happened while all of that online
12:00 AM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago is having fun again. Coming off a 5-11 season, the Bears finished 12-4 and won their first NFC North title in eight years. They have a Coach of the Year candidate (Matt Nagy), a superstar (Khalil Mack) leading the No. 1 scoring defense and a promising young
2:53 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — As the Dallas Cowboys wind down their preparation for Saturday’s wild-card matchup against the Seattle Seahawks, it is appropriate to remember the only other time these franchises met in the playoffs and how a matter of seconds can change everything. Maybe it is not funny ha-ha, but funny in
12:00 AM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — The Los Angeles Chargers‘ defense was not surprised or in awe by anything Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson did when these two teams faced off two weeks ago. “It helps a lot because it’s fresh,” defensive end Isaac Rochell said. “You don’t have to dig weeks back or
12:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens have heard all the talk about how their run-option offense is a fad and how it’s only a matter of time before defenses figure it out. The Ravens’ response: Go watch film of one of the greatest basketball players of all time. “I don’t know
8:30 AM ET SPRINTING BACK AND forth between the court, weight room and visitors locker room at Staples Center on a mid-November evening, Todd Forcier keeps time. The Portland Trail Blazers‘ sports performance specialist is running players through warm-ups an hour before they face the Lakers, but his eyes are also trained on the red