12:00 PM ET Week 1 of the 2020 NFL season is here. The world has changed just a bit since the last NFL regular-season Sunday. It was December 29, 2019, and the NFL was looking forward to a postseason that would deliver the first Super Bowl victory in Kansas City Chiefs history. Eight months later,
Month: September 2020
10:50 PM ET SoFi Stadium hosts its first live event Sunday night when the Dallas Cowboys visit the Los Angeles Rams, and there couldn’t be stranger circumstances surrounding the grand opening of a $5 billion stadium. There will be no fans at the game, even though NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be present. NFL games
10:16 PM ET When Drew Brees opens his 20th NFL season Sunday afternoon against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, there’s every chance that this will be the New Orleans Saints quarterback’s last season. For a while, the Saints thought the 2019 season was Brees’ last — especially when Brees told them after the
1:40 PM ET Six NFL teams remained in the locker room Sunday during the singing of the national anthem, a stark visual reminder of the league’s pivot toward social justice issues. Elsewhere, many players and some coaches kneeled, sat on the bench and or raised their fists when on the field for the anthem. For
12:52 AM ET Piece by piece, college football is coming back for six of the 10 FBS conferences, and with each game and ensuing Saturday, the College Football Playoff becomes more of a reality. Every time these teams can muster together four quarters in the midst of a global pandemic, it becomes part of their
11:16 AM ET Doug Williams endured some painful blindside hits as an NFL quarterback, but he embraced a recent one when he was informed that a certain foundation had endowed a scholarship in his name at his alma mater, Grambling State University. “When I asked who did this, I was told the donor wished it
7:26 AM ET NFL Films has been collecting multichannel surround audio recordings from every NFL stadium for the past four years, and those sounds will be used Sunday. Over the past few months, NFL Films’ sound mixers spent hundreds of hours harvesting and cataloging sounds from each of the NFL’s stadiums that they had been
10:57 AM ET The San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres will play a doubleheader Sunday after determining that a Giants player received a false positive on a coronavirus test, Major League Baseball announced Sunday. Games on Friday and Saturday had been postponed following the COVID-19 positive. “Following a careful review of all of the
7:15 AM ET We have a heartbeat, someone in the delivery room said loudly, but A.J. Pollock‘s memory of that and a lot that happened in the moments before and after is hazy. Under the best of circumstances, the birth of a child is disorienting for new parents: pain for the mother, a feeling of
9:14 AM ET Six-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton wore a t-shirt saying “arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor” ahead of the Tuscan Grand Prix at Italy’s Mugello circuit. Hamilton took a knee ahead of the race at the anti-racism demonstration which has been held ahead of every F1 race this season. He was