6:56 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Mason Crosby had more to deal with Sunday than just snowy weather that could make a kicker’s job difficult, even one who kicks for the team in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His brother’s wife, Brittany, died Friday morning of ovarian cancer at 30. Yet, when the Packers kicker lined
Month: December 2019
6:54 PM ET BALTIMORE — Less than an hour after a disappointing loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the San Francisco 49ers made it clear they were hoping to do it all over again — sooner rather than later. The Ravens and 49ers slugged it out in the rain at M&T Bank Stadium on Sunday, with
6:25 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Cornerback Janoris Jenkins isn’t happy with his role in the Giants defense. He made that painfully obvious after watching Green Bay Packers star receiver Davante Adams score a pair of touchdowns in a 31-13 victory over New York on Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Jenkins did not match against
6:18 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Cleveland Browns coach Freddie Kitchens downplayed his “Pittsburgh Started It” T-shirt in the aftermath of his team’s 20-13 loss, but Steelers players blasted the coach for putting his team in a bad position. “I know that our coach never would have done anything like that,” left guard Ramon Foster said.
5:37 PM ET Texas fired defensive coordinator Todd Orlando and two other assistants Sunday, while reassigning offensive coordinator Tim Beck as part of a major overhaul on Tom Herman’s staff. Orlando is out, along with outside receivers coach/pass game coordinator Drew Mehringer and inside receivers coach Corby Meekins. All three assistants have been with Texas
5:37 PM ET Texas fired defensive coordinator Todd Orlando on Sunday, a source told ESPN. Orlando, who spent the last three seasons with the Longhorns after serving in the same role under coach Tom Herman at Houston, is out two days after Texas finished the regular season at 7-5. Yahoo Sports first reported the dismissal.
8:00 AM ET When you’re better than just about everyone … except your rival, your rival defines your perspective. By December 1978, Tom Osborne had proven himself a worthy successor to Bob Devaney at Nebraska. In six seasons, he was 55-15-2 with four top-10 finishes. Against top-10 teams not named Oklahoma, he was 6-2. After
8:00 AM GMT Karnataka 180 for 5 (Pandey 60*, Kadam 35, M Ashwin 2-33, R Ashwin 2-34) beat Tamil Nadu 179 for 6 (Vijay 44, Aparajith 40, More 2-32) by one run Defending champions Karnataka survived a Baba Aparajith-Vijay Shankar scare to clinch the last-ball thriller as they beat Tamil Nadu by one run in
7:00 AM ET The calendar has flipped to December, but few teams in the NHL had a better November than the Philadelphia Flyers, who picked up points in 14 of their 16 games (10 wins) for a league-high 24 points. That tied a franchise record for most November points and put the Flyers squarely in
5:02 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Philadelphia Eagles‘ 37-31 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday was the worst of the coach Doug Pederson era — a kind of defeat that has the ability to splinter a locker room, and one that will test this team’s leadership group with four games left. Facing