Month: December 2019

12:34 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson topped all players in this year’s Pro Bowl fan voting. Jackson, the favorite for NFL Most Valuable Player, received 704,699 votes, which were nearly 165,000 more than any other player. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson finished second with 539,768 votes and Kansas City
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12:00 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The highlight reel that coach Jason Garrett played during last week’s team meeting was not designed to remind the Dallas Cowboys of what they could do. It was also a reminder of what they have been. “Jason’s message all week was kind of reestablish our DNA,” tight end Jason
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12:27 PM ET Associated Press No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Ohio State each placed three players on the Associated Press All-America first team released Monday. Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow of LSU highlights the first-team offense and Heisman finalist Chase Young of Ohio State leads the defense on the team presented by Regions Bank,
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12:14 PM ET HOUSTON — Defensive end J.J. Watt tore his pectoral muscle in Week 8, but the Houston Texans aren’t ruling out the chance that he could return this season. On Monday, head coach Bill O’Brien was asked whether “Watt has made enough progress to be considered to come back” this season. “I’m going
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12:18 PM ET The Ilya Kovalchuk experiment is over for the Los Angeles Kings. The team issued a statement Monday saying that he “has left the team and been placed on unconditional waivers for the purpose of terminating his contract with the club.” The move comes a day after the 36-year-old received a $2.65 million
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12:07 PM GMT Former Wales assistant coach Rob Howley has been suspended from rugby for 18 months, with nine suspended, for breaching the sport’s betting regulations. Howley, a part of Warren Gatland’s backroom staff during the New Zealander’s time in charge of Wales, was sent home from this year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan before
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11:49 AM ET NEW YORK — In the lead-up to welterweight world titlist Terence Crawford’s defense against “Mean Machine” Egidijus Kavaliauskas, the pound-for-pound star was asked about getting a big fight against one of the other elite fighters in his deep weight division almost as much as he was asked about Kavaliauskas. Weary of the
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11:18 AM ET Katie Taylor has been selected as the 2019 Christy Martin award winner for female fighter of the year by the Boxing Writers Association of America, the organization announced on Monday. Taylor won over nominees Amanda Serrano and Mariana Juarez in the voting of the seven-person committee of made up of women’s boxing
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