12:38 PM ET The Chicago Bears and Eddie Jackson have agreed to a four-year, $58.4 million contract extension that makes him the highest-paid safety in the NFL, according to his agency, SportsTrust Advisors. The deal, with an average annual value of $14.6 million, includes $33 million in total guarantees. The 26-year-old Jackson posted 60 tackles,
Month: January 2020
12:24 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Christian McCaffrey‘s versatility and superb statistics helped him to a rare double: The Carolina Panthers running back has made The Associated Press NFL All-Pro Team at two positions. McCaffrey rushed for 1,387 yards and 15 touchdowns, and he caught 116 passes for 1,005 yards and 4 TDs.
12:05 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Houston Hogg, one of four African American football players at Kentucky who helped break the Southeastern Conference color line in the late 1960s, has died. He was 71. The school announced Friday that Hogg died in Owensboro, Kentucky. The former Wildcats running back and defensive back entered
12:04 PM ET Ilya Kovalchuk will play for the Montreal Canadiens for the rest of the season after the 36-year-old Russian winger signed a two-way contract Friday for the league minimum, which will pay him $700,000 in the NHL and $70,000 in the AHL. Kovalchuk returned to the NHL last season after a five-year stint
11:44 AM ET New York Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech is out for the rest of the regular season after suffering an Achilles tendon injury, the team announced Friday. The Islanders said Pelech suffered the injury prior to Thursday’s game against the New Jersey Devils. Pelech did not play in the 2-1 loss, missing his first
8:00 AM GMT England 262 for 9 (Pope 56*) v South Africa There is no precise antonym for the word “ruthless”: like “nonplussed”, “disgruntled” and “underwhelmed”, it is considered by linguistics scholars to be an unpaired adjective due to the lack of a word with a perfectly opposite meaning. But if academics can find a
10:52 AM ET NBA players and referees will wear a commemorative black band on their uniforms for the rest of the season to honor former commissioner David Stern, the league announced Friday. 1 Related Stern, an innovator who transformed the league into a global brand in his three decades as commissioner, died Wednesday at the
3:00 PM ET Will Tua Tagovailoa stay at Alabama or enter the NFL draft? That’s the big question as the star quarterback gets ready to announce his decision at 12 p.m. ET on Monday at a press conference with coach Nick Saban. For a while, it seemed a foregone conclusion he would head to the
10:19 AM ET The Mississippi State Bulldogs fired coach Joe Moorhead on Friday, ending his two-year tenure at the school. “In consultation with President Mark Keenum and after a thorough review and evaluation of all aspects of our football program, I have decided that a change in leadership is in the best interest of our
10:19 AM ET The Mississippi State Bulldogs have fired head coach Joe Moorhead after two seasons, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg on Friday. Moorhead had a 14-12 record with the Bulldogs, culminating with a loss to Louisville in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl on Monday. Stadium first reported that Moorhead had