5:11 PM ET Notre Dame All-America cornerback Julian Love and tight end Alize Mack announced Friday that they would forgo his senior seasons to enter the NFL draft. Love thee ☘️ pic.twitter.com/uZq2c0w1lo — Julian Love (@julianlove27) January 4, 2019 Love told reporters at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl last week that he received a second-round grade
3:34 PM ET Ramona Shelburne Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Adrian Wojnarowski Philadelphia 76ers All-Star Jimmy Butler has aggressively challenged coach Brett Brown on his role in the offense, complicating an already tenuous chemistry among the team’s Big 3 hierarchy, league sources told
2:11 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James will miss at least another week as he continues to recover from a significant groin strain, with the team ruling him out for Friday’s game against the New York Knicks as well as an upcoming two-game road trip. In his absences dating back to his tenure
2:08 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Joe Flacco will back up Lamar Jackson in Sunday’s wild-card game against the Los Angeles Chargers, just six years after he led the Baltimore Ravens to a Super Bowl championship. Robert Griffin III says defenses know what’s coming from Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, but, like Michael Jordan,
2:30 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Brent Grimes said that he feels “disrespected” that the Bucs’ coaching staff asked him to shadow top wide receivers Antonio Brown and Julio Jones this year for what he believes was too low of a salary and that he almost didn’t play in the final
1:31 PM ET The Oklahoma Sooners are hiring Ohio State assistant Alex Grinch to be their defensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday. From 2015 to 2017, Grinch was the defensive coordinator at Washington State. He was a semifinalist for the 2017 Broyles Award, given to the nation’s top assistant coach. The Athletic was
1:44 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports CONCORD, N.C. — Chip Ganassi Racing will shut down its Xfinity Series team, which won six races with three different drivers in 2018, because of a lack of sponsorship. The team had announced
12:54 PM ET Ohio State offensive lineman Michael Jordan plans to enter the NFL draft this spring after three seasons of starting with the Buckeyes. Jordan moved from offensive guard to center at the start of the 2018 season. He is considered the No. 3 center prospect in this year’s draft class, according to ESPN’s
12:39 PM ET South Africa’s bowlers dominated headlines in 2018 and helped to make home a fortress, but on the second day at Newlands, the batsmen finally had their day in the sun. Aiden Markram kicked things off with a fluid 78 on Thursday, Temba Bavuma struck 75 to continue the good form he showed
12:32 PM ET The West Virginia Mountaineers have hired Troy‘s Neal Brown to a six-year deal to be their new football coach, sources told ESPN on Friday. The move comes only two days after former Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen was officially hired at Houston. Brown, 38, is one of only six FBS coaches with 10