11:43 AM ET The New Orleans Saints have had five offensive coaches test positive for COVID-19, calling into question their status for Sunday’s game against the Carolina Panthers, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. However, one team source said, “We’ll be just fine.” Saints head coach Sean Payton said during the summer that the team’s
Month: September 2021
7:45 AM ET EA Sports has released the first batch of its player ratings for FIFA 22, announcing the top 22 ranked players in this year’s edition of the game. As is usually the case, some of the ratings that have been meted out by EA have sent ripples through the gaming community as favourite
Report Avoidance of innings defeat provides crumb of comfort for Taunton faithful Lancashire 373 (Wells 103, Croft 71, Bailey 63, Bohannon 50; Brooks 4-77, Abell 3-63) and 32 for 0 beat Somerset 90 (Blatherwick 4-28, Bailey 3-9) and 314 (Lammonby 100, Azhar Ali 50; Wells 3-9) The statisticians from cricket’s black museum were out in
6:45 AM ET NFL NationESPN This week’s edition of the 2021 NFL Power Rankings is all about first impressions, as after months of buildup and hype, we got to see every NFL team take the field for the first time in a game that counts. But first impressions from Week 1 go well beyond team
Sep 12, 2021 MONZA, Italy — Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said Max Verstappen committed the equivalent of a “tactical foul” by colliding with Lewis Hamilton at the Italian Grand Prix. 1 Related The two championship rivals took each other out of the race on lap 26 when Verstappen attempted to pass Hamilton at Monza’s
Sep 13, 2021 Daniel Ricciardo said the “speed bumps” he encountered in his first half year with McLaren made victory at the Italian Grand Prix all the more emotional. Ricciardo joined McLaren this season but, against most preseason expectations, struggled to match his younger and less accomplished teammate Lando Norris in the build-up to F1’s
8:01 AM ET Multiple Contributors Vitor Belfort stopped Evander Holyfield this past weekend in Florida in the latest installment of boxing’s nontraditional fights. This bout lasted only a minute, but that was long enough for many fans to turn sour at the current state of the sport. Where do boxing and these lucrative money-making endeavors
8:18 AM ET Aston Martin expect four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel to race on for them in Formula One next season and an announcement is imminent, team owner Lawrence Stroll said. “We are delighted with Sebastian. It is our firm intention to continue with him next year and beyond,” said the Canadian billionaire. Aston Martin
7:30 AM ET Texas isn’t back. Neither is Florida State nor USC. After impressive openers, those teams were dealt a generous dose of reality in Week 2. The Longhorns were manhandled by Arkansas, the Seminoles lost to an FCS program for the first time in the worst way imaginable and the Trojans looked uninspired in
6:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Brad Arnett sat outside the football fields at Arrowhead High School in Hartland, Wisconsin, last fall, waiting for school to finish and practice to start, when a text message showed up. It was J.J. Watt. That, in itself, wasn’t a surprise. Arnett, a defensive line coach at Arrowhead, started