7:30 AM ET The NHL is in an unprecedented era of skill and speed. The best players are so much better than they’ve ever been and have forced the game to evolve to their high standards. It’s making for a more entertaining product. Let’s take a look at some of those skills central to playing
Month: December 2019
6:00 AM ET PITTSBURGH — Just before 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, rookie cornerback Justin Layne arranged trays of food in a room at the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ training facility. As his fellow defensive backs came through the door, they filled plates with fried chicken, mac and cheese and greens. Once everyone had fixed themselves a meal,
9:40 AM ET Canelo Alvarez, who moved up two weight divisions and won a light heavyweight world title last month, vacated his 175-pound belt on Tuesday. Alvarez relinquished the WBO title in order to “comply with the World Boxing Organization’s prohibition against its champions holding titles from other sanctioning organizations in multiple weight classes.” Alvarez
6:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson essentially ended the NFL Most Valuable Player debate last week, when he put up another five touchdown passes and broke Michael Vick’s single-season rushing record for a quarterback. The more intriguing question involving Jackson is whether the football world is witnessing something historically
8:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” In late August, Cleveland Indians reliever Oliver Perez entered a game in the sixth inning to face a left-handed hitter. It was his 55th appearance of the year, and with that his
7:30 AM ET Steve RichardsESPN Baseball’s owners voted to make a major rule change beginning in the 2020 MLB season, requiring pitchers to either face a minimum of three batters or complete a half-inning, a switch pushed by commissioner Rob Manfred with an eye toward quickening the pace of play and shortening the length of
7:00 AM ET After weeks of trade rumors and a pair of healthy scratches in the New Jersey Devils‘ past two games, Taylor Hall has finally been traded, with the Arizona Coyotes now the employers of the 2018 Hart Trophy winner. Where will the Yotes wind up in the standings? Where will Hall sign in
5:33 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Basil Butcher, the stylish Guyana and West Indies batsman of the 1950s and 1960s, died on Monday in Florida following a long illness aged 86. He played 44 Tests between 1958 and 1969, scoring 3104 runs at an average of 43.11, and was named one of Wisden’s Cricketers of the
1:26 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN MILWAUKEE — Inside the Milwaukee Bucks’ locker room following Monday’s 120-116 loss to the Dallas Mavericks, players were not hanging their heads. They don’t have time to. Their 18-game win streak was snapped, two wins shy of matching the franchise record of 20 set during the 1970-71 championship season. But
12:40 AM ET HOUSTON — Russell Westbrook tapped his heart a few times when asked about the key to the Houston Rockets rallying from 25 points down in Monday’s 109-107 win over the San Antonio Spurs, their largest deficit overcome to win in at least the past 20 seasons. “Sometimes you’ve got to want it
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