10:56 AM ET The Tampa Bay Rays, who ranked next to last in the majors in attendance last season, are eliminating more than 10,000 seats in an effort to create a more “intimate” experience for fans at Tropicana Field. The Rays on Friday said they would add a premium seating section in the lower level
11:08 AM ET Former Virginia football coach George Welsh, who retired as the ACC’s winningest coach and was the league’s first coach to win 100 games, died on Wednesday, according to a release by the school. He was 85. After rebuilding Navy, his alma mater, into a consistent winner, Welsh took over a downtrodden Virginia
10:38 AM GMT The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has announced England Women’s first squad of full-time professional players and has set its sights on regaining the Women’s Six Nations championship in March. The organisation revealed plans for the team to go fully professional last year, awarding full-time contracts to players for the first time. The
11:30 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Wysh List publishes every Friday. Oy, these kids today in the NHL. There’s just … so many of them. At least it seems like that. “This is a young man’s league. It’s changing every year,” said Chicago Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman. “There are more and more players …
7:04 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Look, sometimes you just blow it. You go into the season with a well-thought-out plan at some position, you put your faith in the talented players whom you’ve acquired to fill that
10:20 AM ET At the midpoint of the NHL season, teams are beginning to assess their chances at making the postseason and preparing to make decisions about whether to buy, sell or stand pat at the trade deadline. While every team that is on the outside of the playoff race has some sort of shot
12:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — John Elway still has optimism, even as he looks for his fourth head coach in his tenure as the Denver Broncos‘ top football executive. As the Broncos have missed the playoffs for the third straight season, and fired coach Vance Joseph on Monday, Elway has taken plenty of blame
12:00 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars (5-11) have much to fix after an embarrassing and disappointing 2018 season. Find a quarterback. Make some cuts for salary-cap reasons. Re-work the tight end, running back and wide receiver positions. Get three key offensive linemen healthy in time for the 2019 season. Those are the
12:00 AM ET Over the past six weeks we’ve heard a lot about bowl games. We’ve heard there are too many. We’ve heard they mean less in the College Football Playoff era. We’ve heard that stars bailing early for the NFL have neutralized their importance. But an interesting thing happened while all of that online
12:00 AM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago is having fun again. Coming off a 5-11 season, the Bears finished 12-4 and won their first NFC North title in eight years. They have a Coach of the Year candidate (Matt Nagy), a superstar (Khalil Mack) leading the No. 1 scoring defense and a promising young