10:50 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN All 31 NHL teams have reached the official midway point of their season, so in addition to this week’s updated rankings, we are offering our take on which teams will finish under or over their current projected points pace. How we rank: We use a panel of voters, and these
8:22 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets are expected to hire Adam Gase as their new head coach, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Jeff Darlington. The Jets reached out to Gase soon after he was fired by the Miami Dolphins on Dec. 31. He was only 23-25 in three seasons,
6:14 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — In hiring Vic Fangio, the Denver Broncos are returning to a formula they trust. From the time Pat Bowlen hired Mike Shanahan in 1995, the Broncos have had five head coaches. The three who won AFC West titles during their tenures — Shanahan, John Fox and Gary Kubiak —
12:34 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It took only one Pro Bowl experience for Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers to get a taste of what it is like to play for legendary New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. It was 2011 in Hawaii, and the AFC team was getting its doors blown off in
7:36 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — In the hours before the Green Bay Packers offered their job to Matt LaFleur on Monday, his phone rang, and it was Aaron Rodgers on the other end. “That’s kind of how I had an idea that maybe I was in the running for it,” LaFleur said. Now,
7:38 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — Former No. 2 overall pick Dustin Ackley is returning to the Seattle Mariners on a minor league deal after spending the past two seasons in the minors with the Los Angeles Angels, according to a person familiar with the deal. The person spoke to The Associated Press on
7:09 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton had quite the display waiting for his players this week when they started preparing for Sunday’s NFC divisional playoff opener against the Philadelphia Eagles. Payton brought three armed guards, a stack of more than $200,000 in cash, the Lombardi Trophy and a Super
6:53 PM ET As two-division world titleholder Badou Jack prepares for his next fight, he can’t help but think of the opponent from his last fight, former light heavyweight world champion Adonis Stevenson, who remains hospitalized following a catastrophic brain injury suffered in a fight last month. On May 19, in Toronto, Jack challenged then-champion
7:17 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — The NHL is giving Seattle’s future franchise a reward for its investment in bringing the league’s 32nd franchise to the city. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday the league has promised Seattle it will host the All-Star Game within its first seven seasons, with the team slated to
6:40 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Kliff Kingsbury’s first priority as the Arizona Cardinals‘ new head coach is to hire a staff, he said during his introductory news conference Wednesday. He’ll be starting from scratch, which has put his timeline in overdrive. “Yeah, today if we could,” Kingsbury joked. Kingsbury, a first-time NFL coach who