10:27 AM ET Former major league pitcher Tim Hudson has been named the pitching coach for the Auburn baseball team, it was announced Wednesday. Hudson, a standout hitter and pitcher for the Tigers in 1997, compiled a 222-133 record with a 3.49 ERA and 2,080 strikeouts over 17 seasons with the Athletics, Braves and Giants.
Month: January 2020
9:38 AM ET Larry Fitzgerald will return for a 17th season with the Arizona Cardinals. The team announced Wednesday that the star wide receiver has signed a one-year contract. 1 Related Fitzgerald, who will turn 37 in August, led the Cardinals last season with 74 catches for 804 yards and four touchdowns. Fitzgerald, an 11-time
9:25 AM ET Missouri State has hired Bobby Petrino as its new coach, the school announced Wednesday morning. Petrino, 58, will be introduced Thursday morning at a news conference at JQH Arena in Springfield. He last coached at Louisville in 2018, but was fired after a 2-8 start to the season. Petrino went 77-35 in
8:00 AM ET The dust has settled, bowl season is (finally) over, and we have a new champ: LSU. But there’s a lot more to the college football postseason than the playoff and the title game. There are 40 bowls that provide endless entertainment and tons of fantastic performances. We highlight some of the best
6:00 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The camera panned to the New England Patriots sideline late in their wild-card loss to the Tennessee Titans on Jan. 4. There was coach Bill Belichick and one of his assistants chirping in the official’s ear. At the time, less than two weeks ago, that assistant was a
8:47 AM ET CLEVELAND — A year ago to the day, Freddie Kitchens sat in front of a podium wearing a sport coat and a ballcap. In his introductory press conference as the Cleveland Browns‘ next head coach, Kitchens was his folksy self, joking about using big words like “facetious.” He coined the motto, “If
6:00 AM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rewind to 2016, when the Tennessee Titans hired general manager Jon Robinson, who inherited a roster that had finished with the worst record (3-13) in the league. Robinson faced
6:00 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Who among even the most faithful followers of the Green Bay Packers thought, after watching Mark Murphy’s awkward introduction of his new coach followed by Matt LaFleur’s nervous delivery in that news conference last January, that their team would be preparing for the NFC Championship Game this week?
9:04 AM ET Fernando Alonso completed the tenth stage of the Dakar Rally without a windshield after rolling his Toyota Hilux down the side of a sand dune. The moment, caught on camera from several angles, saw Alonso’s truck lose control as he crested the dune and barrel-roll down the other side before coming to
8:43 AM ET Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, former NFL Films president Steve Sabol and two players from the league’s most iconic defenses were among those selected in the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Centennial class. Thirteen members of the 15-member centennial class were revealed Wednesday morning on NFL Network. Tagliabue, Sabol, former Pittsburgh Steelers