1:58 PM ET ESPN News Services BOSTON — Pete Frates, a former college baseball player whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped inspire the ALS ice bucket challenge that has raised more than $200 million worldwide, died Monday. He was 34. Frates died peacefully, surrounded by his family, they said in a statement. “A natural
Month: December 2019
1:51 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys have released kicker Brett Maher, who leads the NFL with 10 missed field goal attempts this season, and signed veteran Kai Forbath. Forbath, 32, was cut last week by the New England Patriots after he subbed for an injured Nick Folk and made one field goal
1:36 PM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears second-year linebacker Roquan Smith is going on injured reserve with a torn pectoral muscle, head coach Matt Nagy announced on Monday. Smith, Chicago’s leading tackler, suffered the injury on the opening drive of the Bears’ 31-24 victory over the Dallas Cowboys last Thursday night. “I really
6:22 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Nasir Jamshed, the former Pakistan batsman, will be sentenced in February after pleading guilty to a conspiracy to bribe fellow cricketers in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Jamshed, 33, was given a ten-year ban by the PCB in August 2018, and is standing trial at Manchester Crown Court, following his
12:30 PM ET Jairzinho Rozenstruik said Monday he wasn’t surprised when referee Dan Miragliotta rushed in to stop Saturday night’s main event at UFC Fight Night in Washington, D.C. Alistair Overeem was slumped against the cage with his upper lip split open by a Rozenstruik right hand as the fight – which Overeem was winning
11:45 AM ET Anthony Joshua was focused, disciplined and in supreme condition. In other words, he was everything Andy Ruiz Jr. was not. In regaining his three heavyweight world titles on Saturday by masterful one-sided decision, Joshua stamped what happened on June 1 in New York as nothing more than an off night, when Ruiz
12:35 PM ET Florida State is hiring Auburn offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham for the same position, a source told ESPN. Dillingham is the first major addition to the staff of new Seminoles coach Mike Norvell, hired Sunday. Before joining Auburn in 2019, Dillingham spent three seasons working for Norvell at Memphis, coaching quarterbacks and eventually
12:00 PM ET Every week, we’ll mine the waiver wire for lesser-owned assets to help your squad, whether you favor dynasty or the redraft format, and we’ll also toss in some tips for DFS players out there. Finally, we will look at some former go-to fantasy assets who may be overvalued – in the short-
11:44 AM ET Philadelphia Flyers forward Travis Konecny is out indefinitely with a concussion, the team announced Monday. Konecny didn’t return to the Flyers’ 4-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday after a hard, open-ice hit by Mark Borowiecki late in the first period. Konecny, 22, scored a goal in that game and is
7:30 AM ET It’s really an exciting time for NHL prospects at every level. The past few years have seen multiple exceptional seasons in terms of production, and high-end skill is so much more spread out among players. The game is getting better because of it. Let’s take a quick look around the globe at