1:00 AM ET PITTSBURGH — As multiple NFL free agents sign contracts with guarantees in excess of $50 million, the Pittsburgh Steelers will happily sit out that bidding. Pittsburgh typically guarantees only the signing bonus on its contracts, and no Steeler save Ben Roethlisberger has gotten more than $19 million on that bonus. Other teams
Month: March 2019
7:30 AM ET Over the two seasons in which NBA teams have been allowed to sell space on jerseys to advertisers, there has been one holdout: The Oklahoma City Thunder kept their jerseys patch-free. That will end Saturday, as the Thunder have reached a four-year agreement with Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores, an Oklahoma
7:40 AM ET Back with 10 more things: 1. Karl-Anthony Towns, unguardable The Timberwolves have petered out amid injuries and a hail of enemy 3-pointers, but beleaguered Minny fans can take heart in these two realities: • Towns has posted up more than any player since the Jimmy Butler trade; • The Wolves have scored
7:45 AM ET Kevin SeifertNFL Nation Close ESPN.com national NFL writer ESPN.com NFC North reporter, 2008-2013 Covered Vikings for Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1999-2008 More than half of ESPN’s top 100 NFL free agents for 2019 are either signed or committed to a team as the first week of the new league year closes. Now is
8:32 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Although the sight of two Mercedes at the top of the timesheets is a familiar one in Formula One, it doesn’t fit with the narrative that emerged from testing two weeks ago. According to all the data we saw in over eight days of running in Barcelona, Ferrari had
6:24 PM BST Joe Cokanasiga can win 100 Test caps and is firmly in England’s plans for this year’s Rugby World Cup but if he is to fulfil his potential then he will have to be patient as Eddie Jones paces out his international future having left the winger out of the team for Saturday’s
Music blaring from the turntables at an urban, warehouse club in Los Angeles, a guest list boasting media, music, fashion and sports stars and a runway replete with international models like LAFC midfielder Lee Nguyen. Wait, what? Yep, not a typo, just the latest offering from Major League Soccer and adidas at the crossroads of
9:49 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN As sports fans, there may not be a more overrated thing we do than underrating the perpetually rated. Let me explain. There’s this guy Loui Eriksson. You might remember him from his recent healthy scratch for the Vancouver Canucks. Well, before he became a contractual albatross, his claim to fame
9:18 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN As sports fans, there may not be a more overrated thing we do than underrating the perpetually rated. Let me explain. There’s this guy Loui Eriksson. You might remember him from his recent healthy scratch for the Vancouver Canucks. Well, before he became a contractual albatross, his claim to fame
India will host the U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020, FIFA confirmed on Friday. “We have decided that India will host the next U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020,” FIFA president Gianni Infantino said after the FIFA Council met in Miami. This will be the second FIFA tournament that India will host, after hosting the