9:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Full Speed Ahead Photographer Sophy Holland gets up close and personal with powerhouse Nick Bosa. “Come at me, bro.” I uttered those words to Nick Bosa on a beach in Florida, after I told him to tackle my camera. Yep, you heard that right. I asked Nick Bosa to tackle
Month: April 2019
10:57 AM ET Baseball’s analytics revolution is giving us the Incredible Shrinking Manager. Efficiency-minded, value-seeking front offices are hiring pliable, if not disposable, underlings in place of forceful field generals. As a result, a third of teams now have skippers with two years of experience or less. I understand why GMs might think a manager’s
9:00 AM ET When there is chaos in the NFL, or at least drama, the Oakland/Los Angeles/Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders are a decent guess to be the culprits. When it comes to losing players, the Browns could traditionally be counted on to watch their best play better for someone else. These negative characteristics have rarely been
9:00 AM ET Three years ago, Nuggets center Nikola Jokic was a 7-foot second-rounder with tantalizing skills. Now? He’s an All-NBA lock, posting numbers unseen since a Stilt named Wilt patrolled the paint. Here’s how Jokic has led Denver to a top seed in the West. Statistical Nuggets! The Clippers might have the two leading
9:00 AM ET April showers bring … well, bad games that are also rainy. But let’s throw a little bit of sunlight to some meh-burgers this month. EPL Cardiff City at Fulham (April 27, 10 a.m. ET, NBCSN) These two teams are a combined minus-74 in goal differential — but among the Premier League leaders
9:00 AM ET Columnist Guest Editor’s note*: Letters addressed to “ESPN The Ragazine” recently began arriving from a P.O. Box in Pennsylvania, signed by “The Fixer,” whose radical manifestos aim to overhaul sports. In this note, The Fixer revamps baseball. *Editor’s-note note: This letter isn’t real. But who can say what is real and what
9:00 AM ET Steve Kim Anthony Olivieri In his past three fights, undefeated WBO welterweight champ Terence Crawford has mowed through three unbeaten colleagues. Next up: He hopes to hand former WBA champ Amir Khan his fifth loss (33-4, 20 KOs). Ahead of the April 20 fight (9 p.m. ET, ESPN PPV), we asked a
10:59 AM ET ESPN staff Hate doing your taxes? Turns out, so do many of Europe’s elite soccer players. In fact, so many have been caught offside by the taxman that we put together an all-star team of world-beaters who’ve been called out. Any takers? Forward: Radamel Falcao The Colombian was slapped with a $10.6M
9:00 AM ET How would you describe your style? I try not to copy anybody and I don’t believe in stylists, so the biggest thing for me is individuality. For me, I wake up and say, “I’m feeling this today, so I am going to do it.” Do you have any style icons? Honestly, no.
9:00 AM ET St. Louis’ signature dish is toasted ravioli, but a more prosaic offering is ubiquitous at Busch Stadium, and the Cardinals claim to hawk more of it than any other MLB team: nachos. Specifically, nachos and meat. “We’re baseball heaven,” Busch Stadium executive sous chef Norman Taylor tells ESPN The Magazine. “And that’s