Month: July 2019

11:48 AM ET Atlanta Falcons safety J.J. Wilcox has suffered a season-ending ACL injury, coach Dan Quinn confirmed Tuesday. Wilcox suffered the injury to his right knee on the first day of training camp Monday and had been scheduled to get a second opinion. The 28-year-old veteran remained on the ground kneeling on his left
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11:34 AM ET Junior welterweight Maxim Dadashev died on Tuesday morning as a result of brain injuries sustained in an 11th-round knockout loss to Subriel Matias on Friday night at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. He was 28. Donatas Janusevicius, Dadashev’s strength and conditioning coach, who had been with him at UM
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11:17 AM ET The Nashville Predators have signed forward Colton Sissons to a seven-year, $20 million contract that runs through the 2025-26 season. Sissons, 25, scored 15 goals and 30 points — both career highs — in 75 games with the Predators this past season. “Colton will be an important part of our team for
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Feb 11, 2019 Kelly CohenESPN Tim Duncan spent his entire 19-year career with the San Antonio Spurs — and this week, he came out of retirement to join the team’s coaching staff as an assistant coach. “It is only fitting, that after I served loyally for 19 years as Tim Duncan’s assistant, that he returns
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11:35 AM ET Field YatesESPN Insider Close Field Yates has previous experience interning with the New England Patriots on both their coaching and scouting staffs. A graduate of Wesleyan University (CT), he is a regular contributor to ESPN Boston’s Patriots coverage and ESPN Insider. The Buffalo Bills are hiring former Houston Texans general manager Brian
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10:50 AM ET It looks like there is a good chance that unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez’s next fight will be against Sergey Derevyanchenko, one of his mandatory challengers. A purse bid scheduled for noon ET on Tuesday at the IBF offices in Springfield, New Jersey, has been postponed until Friday because Alvarez promoter
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Jul 9, 2018 Editor’s note: This article was adapted from Phil Steele’s college football preview magazine, which is available here. What constitutes a surprise team? For me, it’s when a team that isn’t considered a consensus preseason top-10 team makes a playoff run. This season, my projected preseason AP top 10 is Clemson, Alabama, Georgia,
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