10:00 AM ET The New York Jets desperately need an edge rusher. Now there’s a copy/paste sentence that has been used every year since 2006, the year John Abraham was traded to the Atlanta Falcons. A couple of high-profile pass-rushers in this year’s free-agent class, Jadeveon Clowney and Yannick Ngakoue, are still without a team,
Month: April 2020
8:08 AM ET AUDUBON, N.J. — On a quiet street outside of Philadelphia, there’s a modest, two-story house where the Flacco family raised six children, most notably a former Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl MVP, and now another NFL draft prospect. When the front door opens, there’s a face that resembles Joe Flacco. The welcoming voice
8:28 AM ET Associated Press The Senior PGA Championship in Michigan has been canceled. The PGA of America says it based its decision on Michigan’s stay-at-home order that was enacted March 23. The Senior PGA in Benton Harbor, Michigan, was to be played May 21-24. It will be held next year at Southern Hills in
8:04 AM ET Former Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch and ex-Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow will fulfill their one-season suspensions for the team’s sign-stealing scandal even if no baseball is played in 2020, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney on Thursday. Hinch and Luhnow were given the one-year bans and subsequently fired in January following an
1:46 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Construction work on the new Compton and Edrich stands at Lord’s is to continue, despite the UK’s ongoing lockdown in response to the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) outbreak. The MCC has extended its closure of the ground until the end of May, as well as cancelling a planned AGM. Chief executive,
7:20 AM ET ESPN.com staff When it comes to classic college football games, it’s hard to top the 2006 Rose Bowl between Texas and USC. As such, it makes sense that ESPN’s Throwback Thursday: CFB Classics will start with that epic title clash (8 p.m. ET, ESPN and ESPN App). Relive Vince Young’s heroics against
7:00 AM ET Editor’s note: This story originally ran in 2017. Watch a replay of the classic Texas-USC game tonight on ESPN and the ESPN App at 8 p.m. ET as part of Throwback Thursday: CFB Classics. We, as fans and consumers of sports, ask a lot of those we watch. We want them to
7:39 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 2001, Ichiro made his Major League Baseball debut. Ichiro Suzuki was the first position player from Japan to
7:41 AM BST Eddie Jones is set to extend his contract with England to take him through to the 2023 Rugby World Cup, according to ESPN sources. Jones’ contract was due to finish in 2021, but he is now poised to take England through another World Cup cycle, having led them to the 2019 final.
7:33 AM ET The Royal and Ancient, which organizes The Open Championship, is “continuing to work through our options” regarding the 2020 major. “We are continuing to work through our options for The Open this year, including postponement,” R&A CEO Martin Slumbers said in a statement Thursday. “Due to a range of external factors, that