6:33 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — While the Washington Redskins appeared to be closing in on a new coach and the New York Giants opted to move on from their head coach, Jason Garrett remains the Dallas Cowboys’ coach — at least for now. Garrett met with Jerry Jones after the coach and owner/general manager
Month: December 2019
5:51 PM ET There’s a mantra in Las Vegas: “Good teams win, great teams cover.” Well, no NFL team covered the spread more often this past decade than the New England Patriots, ESPN Chalk’s best team to bet of the 2010s. The Patriots covered the spread in a remarkable 60% of their games (108-72-2 ATS)
3:57 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The host St. Louis Blues will have three players at NHL All-Star Weekend. Captain Alex Pietrangelo, goaltender Jordan Binnington and playoff MVP Ryan O’Reilly will represent the defending Stanley Cup champion Blues for All-Star festivities Jan. 24-25. Forward David Perron was not chosen as an All-Star despite
3:32 PM ET ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford said he will be ready to go for the offseason program when it starts in April after suffering a back injury that took away half of his 2019 season. The 31-year-old missed the final eight games of the year after fracturing bones in
2:51 PM ET Chinese promoter Longjoy Sports on Monday surprisingly won the purse bid for the mandatory fight between unified light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev and Meng Fanlong after their promoters were unable to make a deal. Longjoy Sports, which has worked with Fanlong promoter Roc Nation Sports in the past and will co-promote
2:29 PM ET Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence said the vicious hit he took from Ohio State cornerback Shaun Wade in the first half of Saturday’s College Football Playoff Semifinal at the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl left his arm numb and was a turning point for the entire team in its 29-23 win over the Buckeyes. “It
8:05 AM ET Steve KimESPN An entertaining year for the sport of boxing just ended. There were plenty of unification bouts and an abundance of legitimate fight of the year candidates. And that momentum should carry into 2020. The first couple of months in 2020 look promising, with these top 10 fights standing out among
7:45 AM ET When I put together a “Fights I want to see” list going into 2019, the No. 1 matchup was Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson. Well, it didn’t happen, and — spoiler alert — Nurmagomedov vs. Ferguson is still the No. 1 fight I want to see. The good news is, as we
6:00 PM GMT Chris Silverwood has insisted England “will not be afraid” to take tough selection decisions if necessary. Silverwood, the England coach, will have to weigh up whether or not his side should pick a spinner for the second Test in Cape Town starting on January 3. If they do, it could leave him
10:12 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim NEW YORK — IT is minutes before midnight on Christmas, and David Michaud is standing in the middle of 42nd Street, taking pictures of the bustling neon cathedral that is Times Square. The “walk/don’t walk” sign is telling him he has another 12, 11, 10 seconds to remain planted there
9:04 PM ET As the year and the decade come to a close, the UFC is in the midst of perhaps its most successful run ever. And that momentum looks like it will continue in 2020 with Conor McGregor vs. Donald Cerrone headlining UFC 246 on Jan. 18 in Las Vegas. UFC president Dana White
8:51 AM ET Associated Press A day after Andy Murray put his Grand Slam comeback on hold, Japan’s Kei Nishikori has become the latest high-profile player to withdraw from next month’s Australian Open, citing a right elbow injury. Tennis Australia issued a statement Monday saying Nishikori had withdrawn from the season-opening major at Melbourne Park
7:17 AM ET The Washington Redskins are expected to hire former Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera as their next head coach barring any unforeseen developments, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday. The news comes on the same day that the team parted ways with team president Bruce Allen. The Redskins hope the moves can
Play 01:09 Root refuses to blame illness for defeat in South Africa Spare a thought for holiday-makers catching a flight to Cape Town from Johannesburg on New Year’s Eve. For there is a fair chance some of them will be sharing a plane with an England squad so sickly that they should probably be led
2:42 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Anthony Davis said there’s a simple solution to keeping the Los Angeles Lakers atop the league standings: lockdown defense. “We just had to find ourselves again,” Davis said after the Lakers’ 108-95 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. “We were able to get back to what we do
1:35 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Dallas Mavericks star guard Luka Doncic briefly entered the concussion protocol during Sunday’s loss to the Los Angeles Lakers after suffering a hard fall to the court during a first-half drive to the hoop. Doncic was fouled on the drive and stayed in to sink a pair of free
11:49 PM ET SEATTLE — On April 25, the San Francisco 49ers used the second pick in the 2019 NFL draft. Just 248 days later, they are NFC West division champions and sit atop the NFC hierarchy. To reach that mountaintop, the Niners had to walk into their personal house of horrors and emerge on
11:42 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Jake DeBrusk sat on the bench wondering when he’d see the ice again. Then he made up for his early hiccups with two quick goals. DeBrusk scored power-play goals 18 seconds apart early in the third after getting benched for much of the opening period, and the Boston
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