2:11 PM ET “Keeping Up With the Steelers” is the best reality show going in the NFL. Pro Bowl wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster compared his team to the Kardashians during a Super Bowl appearance on ESPN’s First Take on Thursday. “I think everyone has to stop being divas. I think we need to stop being
1:52 PM GMT Sam Johnson will make his international debut for Scotland in the Six Nations opening match against Italy in Edinburgh on Saturday. The Glasgow Warriors centre is one of the three uncapped players named in the Scotland squad with Jake Kerr and Gary Graham on the substitutes bench. Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend
3:00 PM ET To his credit, Bryce Harper has at least had some fun with his free-agent status. When TV analyst Tony Romo correctly predicted the Patriots’ movements and plays multiple times during the AFC Championship Game, Harper tweeted, “Confirmed: Just called Tony Romo to see where I’m going to play next year.” When the
1:21 PM ET Although the Wizards are without star point guard John Wall and have gone through a first that included a pair of 2-9 stretches, team owner Ted Leonsis insists Washington will continue to make a run for the playoffs this season. “You have to go to the players, the coach, the staff and
5:38 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers will use specially designed synthetic playing surface rather than grass in their new retractable-roof stadium that opens in 2020. Texas’ decision will make it the fourth of the 30 major league teams to use artificial turf. Toronto’s Rogers Centre and Tampa Bay’s Tropicana Field
1:18 PM ET Associated Press Center Antoine Vermette will retire after 14 NHL seasons as one of the best faceoff men of his generation. The 36-year-old from Quebec won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2015. He most recently played for the Anaheim Ducks, but didn’t sign with a team after becoming a
1:34 PM ET Robert Demovsky GREEN BAY, Wis. — Mark Murphy said it on the day he introduced Matt LaFleur as the Green Bay Packers‘ new head coach — that players indicated to him that complacency had become a problem. All-Pro left tackle David Bakhtiari offered a glimpse at what the team president may have
1:15 PM ET For now, Las Vegas remains the American sports betting epicenter. A record $5 billion was bet at Nevada sportsbooks in 2018, the first year with legal bookmakers operating in several states around the U.S. Bettors bet more — and lost more ($301 million) — in 2018 than in any other year since
12:51 PM ET Madushka Balasuriya Akila Dananjaya is set to fly to Chennai on Friday morning to reassess his bowling action, as Sri Lanka Cricket looks to fast track his return to the international fold ahead of their tour of South Africa later this month. “Spinner Akila Dananjaya will fly to Chennai, India tomorrow morning
12:58 PM ET The San Diego Padres are scheduled to meet with free-agent outfielder Bryce Harper on Thursday in Las Vegas, sources confirmed to ESPN. The Athletic first reported the news. What happens when half of the league forgets to light its hot stove? Three weeks from spring training, we’re witnessing it in an offseason