8:38 AM ET ESPN Fantasy Usually, what would follow here is a well-thought-out introduction — sometimes funny, sometimes serious, often somewhere in between … but always real and from the heart of the Talented Mr. Roto, Matthew Berry. This week, however, a family emergency kept Matthew from being able to produce this week’s column. Thankfully,
Month: November 2019
8:30 AM ET College football’s one-loss club is about to get more popular. Week 11 is highlighted by two games featuring two 8-0 teams: Penn State at Minnesota and LSU at Alabama. A loss won’t eliminate anybody, as 14 of the past 20 teams to reach the College Football Playoff have had a loss, but
10:04 AM ET WBO junior lightweight world titleholder Jamel Herring faces Lamont Roach Jr. in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at Chukchansi Park in Fresno, California, on Saturday at 10 p.m. ET. The undercard will air at 6:30 p.m. ET, also on ESPN+. Herring (20-2, 10 KOs), 34, won the
8:55 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Marvin Washington watched the game last Sunday and felt a familiar pain. It triggered bad memories from a long-ago season, when the New York Jets were a laughingstock. They were 1-15 in 1996, the worst record in franchise history. Once again, they’re in a dark place, 1-7 after
6:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Chris Arians was brutally up front with her husband, Bruce, then the Arizona Cardinals head coach, late in the 2017 season. Bruce was in his fifth year running the Cardinals and closing in on the franchise record of 50 wins, but after multiple incidents with his health, Chris had
6:00 AM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. — On one hand, Oakland Raiders first-year receiver Tyrell Williams has played for the only two quarterbacks in the NFL who don’t curse — Philip Rivers and Derek Carr. On the other, you better [freakin’] believe Williams is jacked to suit up for Carr and face his old team, the
6:00 AM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers made his first start as pro in 2006 against the Oakland Raiders at the Black Hole, a 27-0 win on Monday Night Football for the Chargers in which he completed 8 of 11 passes for 108 yards and a touchdown to Antonio
4:53 PM ET We asked UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya to name the most underrated fighters in the UFC. Not surprisingly, the first one he mentioned was Dan Hooker, who is a teammate of Adesanya’s at City Kickboxing in New Zealand. Adesanya said it was not a biased choice, and it’s easy to believe him,
8:00 AM GMT Toss India chose to bowl v Bangladesh India have chosen to bowl in the second T20I in Rajkot. Rohit Sharma, their captain, expected dew to set in later in the evening and make batting easier on a hard surface with a few cracks on it. Mahmudullah, the Bangladesh captain, said he would
7:20 AM ET After an offseason of furious player movement — including eight 2019 All-Stars changing teams — one intriguing storyline of this NBA season will be how players are received by fans when they return to the cities they left. Some will be easier to predict than others. Kyrie Irving in Boston? Won’t be