8:07 AM ET It isn’t all about strength of schedule. When it comes to determining the top four teams each week, the 13 members of the College Football Playoff selection committee are also watching the game film — which is why No. 10 Ohio State is the lowest-ranked one-loss Power 5 team and looking up
12:56 PM ET The UFC has added an intriguing women’s flyweight fight to their pay-per-view event in January. Joanne Calderwood will meet former KSW champion Ariane Lipski on the Jan. 26 UFC 233 card in Anaheim, Calif., multiple sources told ESPN. Calderwood (12-3) is coming off a first-round submission win over Kalindra Faria in August.
1:00 PM ET Vancouver Canucks winger Brock Boeser is leaving the team’s road trip to head back to Vancouver to see a specialist. Boeser, 21, has been dealing with a groin injury. “He’s gotten better, but he isn’t over the hump yet,” coach Travis Green said, adding that Boeser may rejoin the team on the
1:14 PM ET MLBPA executive director Tony Clark and several major league players have taken Boston Red Sox special adviser Bill James to task for saying players are as important to the game as “beer vendors” and that “the game would go on” with whoever replaces them. In a series of tweets, some of which
1:13 PM ET As we take a look around the fantasy landscape this week, we bring you the “Team Zero” edition. All of the following players have been on the radar for fantasy managers this season — though some by mistake, as you’ll see. Some of these guys have been hurt, some are in contract
12:30 AM ET Dairon Asprilla had a goal and an assist and scored on the deciding shot of a penalty-kick shootout as the Portland Timbers defeated the host Seattle Sounders on Thursday night to advance to Major League Soccer’s Western Conference final. The Timbers won the shootout 4-2 in five rounds after the home-and-home, total-goals
4:32 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — Mallex Smith was made a promise by Seattle general manager Jerry Dipoto when he was acquired for a second time by the Mariners after an initial tenure that lasted less than two hours. “Dipoto didn’t guarantee anything, but he said I at least have 78 minutes,” Smith joked.
12:52 PM ET Wally Triplett, one of the first African-American men to be drafted and play for an NFL team as well as the first African-American starter at Penn State, died Thursday at age 92. Triplett was taken in the 19th round of the 1949 draft by the Detroit Lions as a running back and
7:00 AM ET Note: Some names have been changed by personal request. RICHMOND, British Columbia — It was a typical, late October day in this suburb of Vancouver. The temperature was getting colder but still pretty bearable (especially compared to most of the rest of the country), with a chance of rain (spoiler alert: It
3:28 PM ET Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — Bob Naegele Jr., the founding owner of the Minnesota Wild, has died of complications from cancer. He was 78. The Wild said Naegele died on Wednesday night with his family by his side. Players will wear a jersey patch with his initials for the remainder of