Month: January 2021

1:28 PM ET Florida offensive coordinator Brian Johnson is headed to the Philadelphia Eagles as quarterbacks coach, a source told ESPN. Johnson, 33, will join the staff of new Eagles coach Nick Sirianni and offensive coordinator Shane Steichen. He spent the past three seasons under Dan Mullen at Florida, and was promoted from quarterbacks coach
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1:08 PM ET MOBILE, Ala. — General manager Mickey Loomis acknowledged this will be a “daunting” offseason for the New Orleans Saints, who will likely need to replace Drew Brees at quarterback and could be close to $100 million over the salary cap. But Loomis made it clear that the Saints aren’t going into rebuilding
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12:16 PM ET McLaren has fired up its new Mercedes Formula One engine for the first time. McLaren and Mercedes have rekindled their former partnership for 2021 and beyond. McLaren ran Renault engines from 2018 until last year. New signing Daniel Ricciardo will join Lando Norris in spearheading McLaren’s new era as it looks to
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6:23 AM ET Carlos Sainz completed his first laps for Ferrari at a private test at the team’s Italian circuit Fiorano on Wednesday. Sainz, who joined from McLaren for this season, drove a 2018 F1 Ferrari car at the test. His appearance is part of a week-long test schedule, which saw Sainz’s teammate Charles Leclerc
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10:48 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show There’s no disputing the long anticipated world heavyweight clash between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua is 2021’s biggest story for British boxing, but beneath
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11:24 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Even if the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win it all in Super Bowl LV, coach Bruce Arians said there is no way he will consider retirement, despite already having retired once, after the 2017 season with the Arizona Cardinals. “Hell no. I’m going for two,” Arians told 95.3 WDAE on
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11:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Former New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen was hired as chief operating officer of Roc Nation Sports on Wednesday, returning to the representation business two years after his unconventional leap
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11:17 AM ET ESPN News Services Curt Schilling should remain on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot next year despite his request to be removed, the Baseball Writers Association of America said in its recommendation to the hall’s board of directors Wednesday. “It is the position of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America that
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