2:09 PM ET Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson, the projected No. 1 selection in the 2022 NFL draft, announced Wednesday that he will be leaving the Wolverines program to turn pro. Hutchinson was the Heisman Trophy runner-up in 2021, becoming the third defensive player to finish second in the history of the award. He was
2:53 PM ET Georgia linebacker Nolan Smith isn’t afraid to say what he did after Alabama handed the Bulldogs their first loss of the season, a 41-24 defeat in the SEC championship in Atlanta on Dec. 4. “Want the honest to God truth? I cried,” Smith said Wednesday. “I’m 20 now. I’ve been playing football
12:38 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisberger finally started to come back down to earth two days after an emotional victory Monday night in what likely was his last game at Heinz Field. “You don’t until today probably,” the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback said Wednesday morning. “Tuesday was still pretty special. You get up, and you
1:45 PM ET CHICAGO — Rookie quarterback Justin Fields will start the Bears’ season finale in Minnesota on Sunday after missing the last two games with an ankle injury, head coach Matt Nagy announced on Wednesday. The Bears say Fields has improved enough to practice all week and their intention is to play him. He’ll
8:00 AM ET IT’S A FEW hours after dusk on a Monday in early December, and the Golden State Warriors‘ gleaming spaceship, the Chase Center, is about to transform into a vibrating dance party. The frenzy will be identical to those created by superstar Stephen Curry‘s one-man scoring blitzkriegs, but Curry will be swaying and
7:53 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN We kick off 2022 waiting and wishing for the marquee fights — the ones that can make boxing the focal point of the sports world, if only for a day, and the kind of fights that were in short supply in 2021. The anticipated undisputed heavyweight championship bout between Tyson
11:36 AM ET Wake Forest has hired Purdue’s Brad Lambert, the former Charlotte head coach, as defensive coordinator. Lambert returns to Wake Forest, where he served as an assistant from 2001 to 2010, spending the final three seasons as Demon Deacons’ defensive coordinator. He then became the first head coach at Charlotte, which began competing
12:15 PM ET Associated Press Ross Browner, a two-time All-American at Notre Dame and one of four brothers who played in the NFL, has died. He was 67. Browner’s son, former NFL offensive lineman Max Starks, posted on Twitter early Wednesday morning that his father had died. “The world has lost a Titan,” Starks said.
12:30 PM ET Duke has hired Memphis offensive coordinator Kevin Johns for the same role under new coach Mike Elko, a source told ESPN on Wednesday. Johns, 46, spent the past three seasons as Memphis’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He made previous offensive coordinator stops at Western Michigan, Texas Tech and Indiana, where he
8:00 AM ET “Will Kyrie Irving play tonight?” is about to become a regular question throughout the rest of the 2021-22 NBA season. Irving, who is not vaccinated for COVID-19, hasn’t played because of the Brooklyn Nets‘ decision prior to the start of the regular season not to allow him to participate due to New