6:00 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — A year ago, one of the major storylines of the NFL offseason centered on Matt LaFleur and Aaron Rodgers. Most had questions about how it would work, this arranged marriage between the first-year Green Bay Packers coach and the two-time NFL MVP quarterback who had seemingly lost his
Jun 9, 2020 Multiple Contributors Even though we usually have a reasonably good idea of who’s going to be playing for the national title at the end of the season, every college football season is a snowflake, taking on its own personality and rhythm. But because of chaos, controversy or pure, sustained greatness, some seasons
8:04 AM ET The coach for Simona Halep said the proposed coronavirus protocols for the US Open are “incredibly difficult” and probably won’t work for the world No. 2 player. “The restrictions are tough. They’re incredibly difficult, and every player will have their own opinion as to whether that will work for them. I’m pretty
8:45 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders After a three-month hiatus, PGA Tour golf is back. A loaded field will descend on Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, this week. The tournament has attracted the top five players in the Official World Golf Ranking, including No. 1 Rory McIlroy, and eight of the top 10.
7:00 AM ET The first night of the 2020 MLB draft is in the books, but there are still several big names left on draft boards whom some expected to be long gone by Day 2. Among them are prep stars expecting bigger money to lure them away from their college commitments and college players
6:55 AM ET NFL NationESPN No matter the format or circumstance, NFL expansion is a losing proposition in the short term. There is no practical way to build an immediate winner out of remnants of other NFL teams. The four franchises to most recently enter the NFL as expansion teams — the Carolina Panthers (1995),
6:50 AM ET I love a good expansion draft. It has been 18 years since the NFL last expanded by adding a franchise in Houston, but while organizations have moved across the country since then, we’ve yet to see any serious consideration paid toward adding teams to the 32-squad setup. The biggest reason, of course,
7:15 AM ET The NHL Awards ballots were sent out this week to voters. I’m once again honored to have one through the Professional Hockey Writers Association, and have spent the past few days figuring out how to determine the regular season’s greatest performances when the 2019-20 campaign was stopped short by a global pandemic.
11:34 PM ET ESPN News Services PORTLAND, Ore. — Harry Glickman, the founder of the Portland Trail Blazers and general manager of the franchise’s only NBA title-winning team in 1977, died Wednesday. He was 96. The team announced Glickman’s death. No cause was given. The father of professional sports in Oregon, a true Trail Blazer.
11:51 PM ET Should LeBron James lead the Los Angeles Lakers to the NBA Finals, he’ll be playing basketball in October. However, there’s something even bigger that the Lakers’ star — and some of his friends and colleagues in the sports and entertainment world — are preparing for come November, James announced Wednesday. James and