8:59 AM ET The Big Ten is expected to announce on Wednesday a return to football in October, sources confirmed to ESPN. The news was first reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The Big Ten on Aug. 11 postponed all the fall sports seasons, including football, because of concerns about the pandemic. The league’s presidents
Month: September 2020
Sep 16, 2020 ESPN Betting Insiders The event was previously scheduled for June 18, but we’ll witness a U.S. Open in September, as players prepare to tee off at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, New York. Can Dustin Johnson keep up his hot streak? Is it Phil Mickelson‘s chance at redemption at age 50? What can
6:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — A deluge of hype has swirled around DeAndre Hopkins‘ trade to the Arizona Cardinals, where he has paired with one of the best young quarterbacks in the league in Kyler Murray. On Sunday, it seemed the hype was warranted. Together, Murray and Hopkins willed the Cardinals to a season-opening
8:07 AM ET Steve KimESPN Mexican Independence Day weekend has become a popular time of the year to hold major boxing events. Chango Carmona defeated Mando Ramos on that weekend at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1972. Years later, the great Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. staked his claim to the date, then Oscar De
8:00 AM ET Sam Howell is the next Tom Brady. OK, that’s a bit over the top, but in a time when every great athlete has to be compared to some other greater athlete, Howell, North Carolina‘s quarterback, has become something of a quarterbacking Rorschach test, compared in some small way to a host of
7:30 AM ET VALDOSTA, Georgia — On most mornings in early August, Jake Garcia would wake up in the furnished apartment he shares with his dad, Randy, at 5 a.m., have breakfast and then drive over to Valdosta High School for a 5:45 a.m. practice. Jake and his dad had to share a rental car,
7:00 AM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — It stretches 120 yards, weighs 2.2 million pounds, contains 70,000 square feet of digital LED and houses 268 speakers, a technological marvel befitting its transformative carrier. But the most impressive number attached to the ovular, dual-sided videoboard inside SoFi Stadium might be this one: Eighty. Under normal circumstances —
7:00 AM ET LAS VEGAS — As Mark Davis lorded over the scene — assembled players, coaches and staff members scattered about the natural grass playing surface, with their ears tuned in — the Las Vegas Raiders owner took the mic. The centerpiece of the $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat, state-of-art, domed stadium with a translucent roof
6:47 AM ET The Dallas Stars are in the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in 20 years … and they’ll have to wait a little bit longer to find out who they are playing. The New York Islanders kept their season alive by besting the Tampa Bay Lightning in a double-overtime Game 5.
9:00 AM ET ESPN.com staff The NFL opens a pair of glitzy, new stadiums this season for the Los Angeles Rams/Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders. While it’s unclear how many, if any, fans will get to sit in these state-of-the-art marvels this season, their debut does bring excitement, inspiring ESPN to rank the 28