6:00 AM ET Brady HendersonESPN The Seattle Seahawks will take six sacks in one game any way they can get them, especially considering how hard they were to come by early in the season. But it might be a good sign that they reached that total Monday night with a group effort. They’ll need more
Month: December 2020
10:50 PM GMT The fallout over the Argentina rugby team’s much-criticised tribute to Diego Maradona extended further on Tuesday, with some Argentines saying they will boycott the side because of what they consider an inadequate homage to the late football icon. The Pumas, as the rugby team are known, wore what looked like black electrical
6:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — On Sunday night, the Kansas City Chiefs will try to win their 11th consecutive game against the Denver Broncos (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC) as they roar toward a fifth straight AFC West title. Since Peyton Manning tossed four interceptions against Kansas City in 2015, Chiefs’ coach Andy Reid has
6:00 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Eric Bieniemy was a free-agent running back in 1999, he had some relatively lucrative contract offers with other teams. He instead signed a deal for the minimum salary with the Philadelphia Eagles so he could play for their new head coach, an obscure former assistant by the
6:00 AM ET The Baltimore Ravens will play at the Pittsburgh Steelers on Wednesday afternoon because of 10 days of positive tests for COVID-19, three postponements and the Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center. This is so 2020. Actually, it’s more like 2012. Instead of Lamar Jackson throwing passes to Mark Andrews, a national television
7:15 AM ET The halls of Yost Ice Arena should be bustling right now, with the Michigan Wolverines’ pep band blaring “The Victors” and the Children of Yost — the boisterous student section — heckling an opposing goaltender. But with no fans allowed in the building, one of college hockey’s most sacred cathedrals is empty.
7:00 AM ET The NBA returns to regular-season action on Dec. 22 following an abbreviated offseason — one that saw the draft and the start of free agency compressed into the same week — with some uncertainty. With the coronavirus pandemic ongoing, the league is facing decisions about how to undertake a campaign outside the
10:00 PM GMT Rugby has improved its position on racism but the sport is a reflection of society and there is still work to do, England coach Eddie Jones said on Tuesday following the sanctions handed out to three Argentine players. Pablo Matera was stripped of the Argentina captaincy and suspended, along with team mates
12:51 PM GMT Cricket West Indies (CWI) officials, currently in Bangladesh to inspect the bio-security plans and health protocols in the country ahead of a proposed tour next month, are “very impressed” with the “concise and tight” arrangements. The three-format tour could yet be shortened, but question marks hanging over it might have been dispelled
7:25 AM ET Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta expects David Luiz to be fit for Sunday’s north London derby against Tottenham and defended the club’s protocols in dealing with the centre-back’s head injury against Wolves. Luiz was injured in a clash with Raul Jimenez, who later went to hospital and underwent surgery on a fractured skull,