10:43 AM ET NHL InsidersESPN The 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs have been an unrelentingly wild ride thus far, so much so that it feels like ages ago that the Columbus Blue Jackets swept the juggernaut Tampa Bay Lightning out in the first round. We gathered our roundtable of scribes to break down their favorite storylines
Month: May 2019
9:44 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Trash talk and over-the-top antics have long been a way to gain attention for a big fight. Just look at Floyd Mayweather in boxing, Conor McGregor in MMA — or even when they fought each other. Real or contrived, the trash talk can help sell events. But there are
1:14 PM ET Tiger Woods will celebrate his Masters victory and receive the nation’s highest honor for a civilian when he visits the White House and President Donald Trump on Monday. 2 Related White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday announced the event, at which Woods will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Woods
7:30 AM ET Let’s just be clear right away. This is an extremely early projection of the first round of next year’s NFL draft. I haven’t even studied tape on most of these players yet; I start in on that next week, so these evaluations are based on watching players in person or on TV
1:00 AM ET HOUSTON — Tytus Howard‘s college football career began with a Facebook message. His mom, Teresa Rivers, reached out to Alabama State head coach Reggie Barlow, asking him to take a look at her son, a high school quarterback. Rivers thought her son deserved a shot at playing at the next level, and
1:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos have wandered the we-didn’t-make-the-playoffs wilderness for three seasons now, and it has turned one of the league’s throw-deep executives into a one-day-at-a-time guy. “I’m really at the point that we’re going to take this thing one day at a time,” Broncos president of football operations/general manager
1:04 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Marquise Brown‘s football life has been defined by countless explosive plays and one question asked time and time again. Can the littlest guy on the field succeed in such a punishing sport? What you need to know from Rounds 1-7:&• Pick-by-pick analysis »&• Kiper’s grades » | McShay’s
1:23 AM ET Brady HendersonESPN RENTON, Wash. — When Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider traded up to take DK Metcalf with the final pick of the second round, it wasn’t with Doug Baldwin‘s iffy future in mind. After all, Metcalf is the type of big receiver that Schneider and coach Pete Carroll have been
11:00 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Within a few hours after the New England Patriots selected Auburn quarterback Jarrett Stidham in the fourth round of the NFL draft, one of the players who could be most affected by the decision took the field at Gillette Stadium for some extra work. Danny Etling, the former LSU
7:11 AM ET ESPN staff Despite four straight defeats to Mercedes in the first four races of the 2019 season, Sebastian Vettel says there is good reason to keep the faith in his Ferrari team. 1 Related After two promising weeks of pre-season testing, Ferrari was being billed as the team to beat in 2019.