4:08 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Brett Favre said he thinks Aaron Rodgers will follow the same career path that he did and finish his career elsewhere now that the Green Bay Packers selected quarterback Jordan Love in the first round of the NFL draft last week. “I think he’ll play somewhere else,” Favre
4:12 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — Jameis Winston has proudly boasted for years that he was the first kid to get an autograph from Drew Brees after Brees joined the New Orleans Saints in 2006. Winston, who had just turned 12, grew up near Birmingham, Alabama, where Brees was rehabbing from shoulder surgery at the
3:40 PM ET The PGA Tour Champions announced a series of changes to its schedule Wednesday as professional golf continues to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Among them: the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in Endicott, New York, set for Aug. 10-16, has been canceled. In its place, the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship in Akron, Ohio,
3:08 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN As Tyler Herro was in the midst of moving from his Miami apartment into a house as the coronavirus pandemic went on, he received a surprise text message from his Heat teammate Jimmy Butler‘s agent, Bernie Lee, asking for the new address. The Heat rookie replied, not asking any additional
4:30 PM ET ESPN staff The NCAA’s top governing body said Wednesday that it supports a proposal to allow college athletes to sign endorsement contracts and receive payment for other work, provided that the schools they attend are not involved in any of the payments. A working group assembled to evaluate potential ways to modernize
3:50 PM ET The Mountain West Conference announced Wednesday that its 2020 preseason football media days will be virtual instead of in-person and will be moved to a later date. The MWC is the first FBS conference to make such a move as college football deals with an uncertain future in the wake of the
2:23 PM ET The Atlanta Falcons have declined the fifth-year contract option on defensive end Takk McKinley. McKinley, the 26th overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft, now will become an unrestricted free agent after the 2020 season. He is due to make $1,858,200 this season in what is now the final year of his
2:38 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Will Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson make history with his legs once again? Las Vegas oddsmakers certainly think so. The over-under for Jackson’s rushing total for the 2020 regular season opened at 999.5 yards at Caesars Sportsbook. Jackson rushed for 1,206 yards last season — an NFL single-season
5:31 PM ET The 2020 NFL draft was amazing for a variety of reasons, but certainly, for fantasy purposes, it was a fascinating one. Such a deep class, and with so many situations that have been affected, that this is going to be a long column. As a result, I’m blowing off my usual opening
May 1, 2020 Empty arenas? A private island with a cage in the sand? No big deal, many MMA veterans say. We asked fighters about the strangest circumstances they’ve ever encountered at a fight, and most had a tale that tops anything we’re going to see in the strange new world of fights in coming