9:47 AM ET The U.S. has the bigger names. After all, Tiger Woods is the captain. Oh, and he’s a player, too. Then there’s Justin Thomas and Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed and … well, you get the point. Every player on the U.S. roster is in the top 23 in the
Month: December 2019
7:00 AM ET OAKLAND — An era comes to an end Sunday with the Oakland Raiders playing their final game in the Oakland Coliseum, which has served as the team’s home from 1966 through 1981 and again since 1995. The stadium, the last remaining dual-use stadium by both the NFL and MLB, has seen its
8:44 PM ET College football bowl season is fun for many reasons — the unique team matchups, the wacky bowl names and most of all, plenty of football. One of the best parts about it is being able to watch top players at their positions go head-to-head against others. Here are 10 matchups we’re looking
8:49 AM ET LSU passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach Joe Brady was recognized as the nation’s top college football assistant coach on Tuesday, winning the Broyles Award. Brady is the second LSU assistant to win the honor, joining former Tigers defensive coordinator John Chavis, who won the award in 2011. Brady is in
6:57 PM ET Remember when you were a child and you would grab a flower and do the whole “She/he loves me, she/he loves me not” game? Those were nice times, right? Well, right now our beloved sport of mixed martial arts is that flower. And there’s a lot I love about what’s going on
9:00 AM ET The coronation of Joe Burrow has begun. While the official Heisman ceremony isn’t for another few days, Burrow’s play this season has him entrenched in the top spot. Throughout the season, ESPN.com writers will vote for their top Heisman candidates. To get the final rankings, we use the following methodology: 10 voters,
8:18 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN TORONTO — FOR THE franchise’s entire lifetime, the Toronto Raptors had seen these moments go against them: buzzer-beaters to defeat them, shots that came up short to end their seasons. They’d lost heartbreaking seven-game series and embarrassing four-game sweeps. Matt Devlin had called all those playoff moments, but never one
6:45 AM ET Tua Tagovailoa, the early favorite to be the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NFL draft, has a decision to make. The Alabama junior quarterback is out for the season after he injured his hip in mid-November, and he might have played his final college game. He has been passed by LSU’s
7:05 AM ET SAN DIEGO — The past five years, the average win total needed to earn a playoff spot in the American League has rounded out to 91. For the Los Angeles Angels, striving to launch themselves into legitimate contention as quickly as possible, that means finding 19 more wins in one offseason. Teams
7:11 AM ET Every January, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman aims to take a vacation, his one and only real, extended vacation of the year. In a lot of winters, his vacation is either postponed — to never — or it’s truncated because of the seemingly year-round fretting that accompanies his particular position. But now