7:05 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — You couldn’t watch Sunday’s breathless 49ers-Saints game without concluding that either of those teams could beat the other anywhere, anytime. This is an overreactions column, but that is most definitely not an overreaction. The game saw two of the NFL’s top offensive playcallers, Kyle Shanahan and Sean Payton, trading
Month: December 2019
9:49 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” SAN DIEGO — The winter meetings, once the domain of blockbuster trades and megabucks free-agent signings, have in recent years gone into the sort of hibernation typically associated with the season. They’ve
8:46 AM GMT The two Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) teams that are being managed by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in the upcoming edition of the tournament have failed to comply with the board’s own diktat, that all squads must have an overseas quick who bowls above 140kph and a legspinner, who has to bowl
3:22 AM ET PORTLAND, Ore. — Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul have a lot of shared basketball history together after almost two decades in the NBA, but there’s one specific tie between the two former All-Stars that has binded both proud men over the last year — their respective unceremonious divorces from the Houston Rockets.
2:54 AM ET PORTLAND, Ore. — Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Chris Paul says the officiating crew in Sunday night’s 108-96 win over the Portland Trail Blazers “got me back” after assessing Paul and the Thunder two delay-of-game-violations in the first half. The calls resulted in a technical foul two nights after Paul pushed to
2:32 AM ET LOS ANGELES — It wasn’t Anthony Davis‘ idea to score 50 points Sunday in the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 142-125 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Avery Bradley first suggested it to him at halftime, when Davis was already up to 27 points. DeMarcus Cousins then encouraged him to keep chasing it during second-half
12:27 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — When Kawhi Leonard chose to join the LA Clippers as a free agent this past summer, the expectation among many around the NBA was that the Toronto Raptors‘ time as contenders would go the way of the dinosaurs. There was one fairly notable group, however, who took issue
11:35 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball LOS ANGELES — Remember the fun Los Angeles Rams? The ones who lit up the scoreboard and ignited the NFL on their way to the Super Bowl
11:29 PM ET DALLAS — Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic stopped at midcourt after the final buzzer sounded Sunday, unleashing several more choice words to the officiating crew before he left the American Airlines Center court at the end of a 110-106 loss to the Sacramento Kings. Doncic was livid about the no-call on his shot
10:13 PM ET GLENDALE, Arizona — There’s plenty about Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Devlin “Duck” Hodges that isn’t like most other NFL starting quarterbacks. For one, there aren’t any other starting NFL quarterbacks with their own custom duck caller from Duck Commander. And Uncle Si Robertson from Duck Dynasty isn’t giving pregame shoutouts to any other