5:12 PM ET Sashi Brown is leaving Monumental Sports and the NBA’s Washington Wizards to return to the NFL as an executive with the Baltimore Ravens, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Adam Schefter on Friday. The Ravens haven’t announced the news, but team officials confirmed the hiring to ESPN. Brown had just been promoted
Month: February 2022
2:30 PM ET Jeff Passan Close ESPN ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Jesse Rogers Close ESPN Staff Writer Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. With the MLB lockout started by owners on Dec. 2 now in its
2:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Joe West has made it official, retiring from Major League Baseball after umpiring a record 5,460 regular-season games. The 69-year-old West worked his first big league game on Sept. 14, 1976, at third base in Atlanta when the Braves hosted the Houston Astros. His finale was on Oct. 6,
2:51 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Ryan Garcia is on the comeback trail. The star boxer and Emmanuel Tagoe will meet in a lightweight fight on April 9 at the Alamodome in San Antonio on DAZN, according to Oscar De La Hoya, who promotes Garcia. The bout will be Garcia’s first since January 2021, when he
10:51 AM GMT France have made two changes to the side that defeated New Zealand last November as they prepare to open their 2022 Six Nations campaign against Italy in Paris on Sunday without coach Fabien Galthie. Loose forward Dylan Cretin and hooker Julien Marchand have been brought into the starting XV, while there is
1:38 PM ET Two title fights are now official for UFC 273. Alexander Volkanovski will defend his UFC featherweight title against Chan Sung Jung, “The Korean Zombie,” in the main event of the pay-per-view card April 9 in Jacksonville, Florida, UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell confirmed to ESPN on Friday. The co-main event will
1:04 PM ET NC State is working on a contract extension and raise for football coach Dave Doeren, athletic director Boo Corrigan told ESPN on Friday. “I really like what Dave’s done going into his 10th year here and the way he’s grown the program,” Corrigan said. “I’d be really happy to have him here
11:35 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Defending champion Dustin Johnson shot a 1-over 71 to fall 6 strokes behind co-leaders Harold Varner III and Adri Arnaus at the Saudi International after a windy second round on Friday. Varner and Arnaus carded 66s to reach 10 under overall, while Johnson
11:15 AM ET Haas team boss Guenther Steiner expressed doubt about whether Formula One’s plan to host six sprint races in 2022 would go ahead, with the top teams demanding an increase in the sport’s cost cap. Formula One trialled the sprint-race format at three events last year, with qualifying brought forward a day to
11:35 AM ET Chris Low Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Pete Thamel As university leaders scrutinize the struggles of first-year Auburn football coach Bryan Harsin amid an exodus of players and coaches, he told ESPN he’s committed to the school for the long