8:40 AM ET Editor’s note: This is part of a weeklong look at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2019, focusing on plays, moments or defining characteristics of the inductees. Induction is Saturday at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. The injury occurred on a routine screen pass. Kevin Mawae was in the open
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Jul 27, 2019 Editor’s note: This is part of a weeklong look at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2019, focusing on plays, moments or defining characteristics of the inductees. Induction is Aug. 3 at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. DALLAS — The phone is always ringing at Gil Brandt’s home. As Brandt’s
1:55 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — A look at what’s happening around the New York Jets: 1. Summer school: Robby Anderson has a new mentor — Hines Ward, the former Pittsburgh Steelers great. How perfect is that? Ward, hired as a coaching intern in training camp, arrived on Monday and gravitated toward Anderson, a
1:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Officer James Holliman likes to say — with a smile, not as a joke — that he quits every day. As a member of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Southeast Division, he has entrenched himself within a community of underprivileged children in Watts, a South Central L.A. neighborhood that
12:28 AM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball IRVINE, Calif. — The Los Angeles Rams opened training camp Saturday, and running back Todd Gurley participated in his first practice since Super Bowl LIII. Receiver Cooper
11:00 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. The NFL’s only special-teams coordinator/receivers coach: One moment from the Patriots’ first practice of training camp highlighted how unique it is that head coach Bill Belichick has named Joe Judge the team’s special-teams coordinator/wide receivers coach —
Jul 26, 2019 GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals released defensive end Robert Nkemdiche on Saturday, one day after he arrived at training camp out of shape. Coach Kliff Kingsbury didn’t hold back when asked Friday about how the former first-round pick showed up to camp. “Not in shape, I guess,” the usually reserved Kingsbury
10:09 PM ET BALTIMORE — Baltimore Ravens backup quarterback Robert Griffin III is expected to miss a few weeks after injuring his thumb during Saturday night’s practice, but he should be fine for the regular season, a league source told ESPN. Griffin hit his right thumb on the helmet of a defender toward the end
9:47 PM ET OXNARD, Calif. — Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper are not sweating their contract negotiations with the Dallas Cowboys. “It will happen when it happens,” Prescott said after Saturday’s first training camp practice. “I know I’ll be better by the time the regular season starts. That’s my focus.” Cooper said he was “indifferent,”
7:32 PM ET ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Tyreek Hill returned to the Kansas City Chiefs practice field on Saturday to cheers from fans. The wide receiver pumped his arms and did a high-step to illustrate his excitement at being back with the team. Hill then looked in practice as those fans would remember him, flashing