12:06 PM ET Kansas State starting quarterback Skylar Thompson will miss the rest of the season, coach Chris Klieman said on Monday. Thompson, who missed the Wildcats’ 21-14 win over TCU on Saturday, had surgery for “an upper-body injury” Klieman said. “It was difficult, obviously, when you have a senior captain who goes down,” Klieman
Month: October 2020
8:55 AM ET There is an amazing clip from ESPN’s The Jump in April 2018, the day after LeBron James‘ fourth career postseason game-winning buzzer-beater — a 3-pointer that put his Cleveland Cavaliers up 3-2 in their first-round series against the Indiana Pacers. That gave LeBron one more postseason walk-off shot than Michael Jordan, who
Dec 12, 2019 Mark KriegelESPN Editor’s note: This story was originally published before Lopez’s fight against Richard Commey in Dec. 2019. PITTSTOWN, N.J. — Early last August, Teofimo Lopez and his bride of three months boarded a flight home from Athens. It had been an idyllic Greek vacation: four-wheeling, jet skiing and traipsing through ancient
10:16 AM ET The UFC isn’t lacking intriguing main events for its remaining 2020 schedule. One of those, however, the Kamaru Usman–Gilbert Burns welterweight title fight, was recently postponed, and the UFC 256 card on Dec. 12 needs a new main event. Will the UFC turn to one of its most highly anticipated matchups —
9:44 AM ET Defensive coordinator Raheem Morris has been named the Atlanta Falcons‘ interim head coach, the team announced Monday. Morris replaces Dan Quinn, who was fired Sunday along with general manager Thomas Dimitroff. Morris has coached on both sides of the ball in Atlanta. He was the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
7:10 AM ET Don’t mind me. I’m just sitting here skimming through Sunday’s NFL scores, looking for things to overreact and underreact to. Whoa — wild Sunday afternoon. The Dak Prescott injury is just brutal. Is the 49ers’ score a misprint? The Browns are 4-1! One loss too many, at long last, for Dan Quinn,
8:16 AM ET Associated Press A unnamed tennis player has been withdrawn from the St. Petersburg Open after testing positive for the coronavirus. The ATP Tour says the player has been moved into isolation and “is currently asymptomatic.” The tour adds that “a contact tracing process is currently underway to identify and notify any individuals
6:36 AM ET Valtteri Bottas fell 69 points behind Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton in the Formula One title battle on Sunday and said he needed a miracle to deny the Briton a seventh world championship. The Finn failed to score in the Eifel Grand Prix at the Nuerburgring, despite starting on pole position, after
7:00 AM ET Week 6 of the college football season was the most college football week yet. You had Pitt kicker Alex Kessman nailing a 58-yard field goal to force overtime against Boston College, then missing a PAT to lose the game. You had Oklahoma beating rival Texas in four overtimes despite blowing a late
8:00 AM ET In the 116-year history of the Texas–Oklahoma rivalry, Saturday’s game will be perhaps its most memorable. Not necessarily for good reasons, but in a way that’s hard to even describe. “For 2020, ‘weird’ is starting to get overused,” said Darrell Debish, a 48-year-old Texas fan who estimated this was his 30th Red