Month: September 2023

Associated Press Sep 18, 2023, 01:23 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Pat Narduzzi still believes in struggling quarterback Phil Jurkovec. The Pittsburgh coach said Monday that the redshirt senior will start Saturday night when the Panthers (1-2) open Atlantic Coast Conference play at home against No. 17 North Carolina (3-0). Jurkovec, 23, a Pittsburgh native who
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Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterSep 18, 2023, 12:41 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. No. 9 Notre Dame will regain three starters from injury for this week’s showdown against No. 6 Ohio State, as linebacker JD Bertrand, safety DJ Brown and tight end Mitchell Evans are all
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Pete Thamel, ESPNSep 18, 2023, 01:36 PM ET FAU quarterback Casey Thompson will miss the remainder of the season after getting injured at Clemson on Saturday night, sources told ESPN. Thompson tore both his ACL and medial meniscus, per ESPN sources, and the injury continues a run of bad injury luck that’s plagued his six-year
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Alex Scarborough, ESPN Staff WriterSep 18, 2023, 12:55 PM ET Close Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. Georgia‘s rash of injuries this season continued as coach Kirby Smart announced Monday that right tackle Amarius Mims, a preseason All-SEC pick, will be sidelined with what Smart described as a “bad” high
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Alex Scarborough, ESPN Staff WriterSep 18, 2023, 01:40 PM ET Close Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. The Alabama quarterback competition appears to be over. Jalen Milroe, who started the first two games of the season but did not play against South Florida this past weekend, has “earned the opportunity
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Sep 18, 2023, 12:25 PM ET Army has agreed to extend football coach Jeff Monken through the 2027 season, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Monday. The new deal pays him an average of more than $2 million annually, sources told ESPN. In five of his 10 seasons with the Black Knights, Monken has led
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Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterSep 18, 2023, 12:10 PM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman addressed one of his priorities by strengthening his future quarterback room with a commitment Monday from Deuce Knight, the No. 2 dual-threat QB in the Class of 2025.
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Associated Press Sep 18, 2023, 10:31 AM ET GUANGZHOU, China — British qualifier Harriet Dart beat Jule Niemeier of Germany 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the Guangzhou Open as elite women’s tennis returned to China on Monday four years after the event was last held. Tournaments were canceled in China due to COVID-19
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Associated Press Sep 18, 2023, 09:31 AM ET MAYWOOD, Ill. — Authorities searched Monday for a former NFL player after his 73-year-old mother’s body was found near a creek behind her suburban Chicago home. Relatives told officers Saturday in Maywood that they could not find Sergio Brown, 35, or Myrtle Brown, police said. Authorities searched
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Sep 18, 2023, 11:22 AM ET Detroit Lions running back David Montgomery, who did not finish Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks and was limping afterward, told reporters after the game that it would take “a couple weeks” for his thigh injury to heal. He otherwise declined comment. Montgomery was carted to the locker room
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