Jan 1, 2019 The regular season is history, but there’s no time to catch your breath in the NFL. Teams are busy either gearing up for a playoff run or planning for a better future. How can they improve in 2019? Our NFL Nation reporters get into the spirit of the holiday with a New
1:27 AM ET To get a feel for what the playoff teams do well, ESPN’s NFL Nation reporters asked a number of players, coaches and team personnel for their anonymous thoughts on each contender. Here’s what they had to say: NFC: 1. NO | 2. LAR | 3. CHI | 4. DAL | 5. SEA
1:22 AM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — The standard is the standard. No explanation needed if you play for the Los Angeles Rams. The standard has just come to be
9:13 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN The footwear industry didn’t need just another signature sneaker. Russell Westbrook, who reinvented the arena walk-in with his daring fashion, didn’t want just any other shoe with his name attached. The starting point for his newest signature sneaker, the Jordan Why Not Zer0.2, was simple: Be anything but simple. “To
9:37 AM ET Enes Kanter met with New York Knicks general manager Scott Perry on Monday to discuss his frustration amid the team’s losing skid and his diminished role, but he did not request a trade. “I did not say, ‘Scott, trade me.’ No I did not say that,” Kanter told reporters after the Knicks’
9:01 AM ET Russell Westbrook is a creature of habit in the most extreme sense. His routines have routines, such as yawning after “twilight’s last gleaming” during every national anthem, setting up pregame layup lines at precisely the same moment before each game, or eating the same pregame meal — peanut butter and jelly, sliced
12:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Sunday’s victory against the New York Giants was quarterback Dak Prescott’s finest moment. All three of the Dallas Cowboys’ Pro Bowl offensive linemen — Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick and Zack Martin — were spectators for health reasons. Ezekiel Elliott, the NFL’s leading rusher, wasn’t in uniform, either. In a
7:45 AM ET Associated Press SHENZHEN, China — Maria Sharapova reached the quarterfinals of the Shenzhen Open on Wednesday after Chinese teenager Wang Xinyu retired in the second set with cramps. Sharapova, who lost the first set 7-6 (4), was leading 5-2 in the second before Wang was forced to quit. “It’s not the way
HBO’s Game of Thrones is set to conclude in 2019 and fittingly, there is a similarly thrilling contest that will reach its climax at around the same time. The Premier League, whose budget dwarfs even that of the epic television series, has its very own Song of Ice and Fire, an intriguing duel between the
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