Week 1, Sunday, Sept. 13, 12 p.m. vs. Green Bay Packers. Series: 54-62-3. Last matchup: Packers 23, Vikings 10 (2019). Skinny: The Vikings could not find a way to beat Green Bay last season, but don't expect that trend to continue into 2020. The Packers ...
The baseball draft is something of a crapshoot. Even teams with the best scouts and analytics departments pick a lot of guys who never make it close to the big leagues. Even first rounders frequently don't get a sniff of the majors. Take the 1995 draft for ...
Big East commissioner Val Ackerman said Friday that the league won't have sports in the fall if students aren't allowed back on campus. During a conference call with reporters, Ackerman stressed that the geographic footprint of the league -- the 11 schools ...
Those in charge of crafting the NFL schedule face a tall task. It's a vast challenge to craft an appetizing prime-time slate while balancing bye weeks, travel schedules, non-NFL venue reservations, potential international play and games at least three days a ...
Todd Gurley isn't going to stay quiet about guaranteed money owed to him by the Los Angeles Rams, nor should he. The Rams would be better off paying it and stopping some bad headlines, which don't reflect well on the organization. It's not like owner Stan ...
Washington Bullets rookie Don MacLean walked into the Capitol Centre in Landover, Md., on the second night of back-to-back games in 1993. The night before, his team, one of the worst in the East, played a tough game in Chicago, almost upsetting the Bulls ...
Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers has no doubt his team will play with pride and energy if the NBA is able to resume the regular season. Speaking to ESPN's Ramona Shelburne, Myers noted the Warriors will be "good partners" in response ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ted Ginn Sr. said he always knew Michael Gravely Jr. had the potential to be a better defensive football player than even Gravely realized. That became apparent after Gravely's first two seasons at Glenville. He wanted to play receiver ...
Alabama coach Nick Saban may have only recently set up an email account, but he's far more versed in making Zoom calls. That could be due to recruiting amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but Saban has used that knowledge to make the day of one longtime ...
It was 8 a.m. Tuesday in St. Louis when the American chess grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, ranked second best in the world, moved his pawn to E4. It was 6:30 p.m., and over 8,000 miles away in Nashik, India, when his opponent, Vidit Gujrathi, responded ...
It's UFC but not as we know it. The coronavirus pandemic is drastically changing the landscape of sport and the world of UFC is no different. UFC 249 was originally due to take place in the middle of April but that event and several others scheduled to take ...
If waiting for baseball to return is the hardest part for fans, players, coaches, scouts and front office types during the coronavirus pandemic, it isn't new to Miguel Andujar. Unfortunately for the 25-year-old, he has last year to lean on. Instead of getting ready to ...
The Bills have made it to the playoffs two of the last three seasons and the release of the schedule for the 2020 season shows that the NFL expects them to be a competitive team again this season. Buffalo got four prime time games, which is one off the most of ...
Georgia Tech picks up another commitment for the class of 2021 in three-star defensive end Noah Collins. The Loganville (GA) Grayson prospect announced his decision to stay home in the Peach State on Friday via social media. Collins was previously ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons will take a 10% salary reduction for the next fiscal year in an effort to save the athletic department $3 million in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Lyons said Friday that football ...
With NASCAR set to resume racing with four Cup Series events later this month, officials announced Friday three races at other tracks that were being replaced in the 2020 schedule. Races at Chicagoland Speedway and Sonoma Raceway and Richmond ...
Detroit Lions (3-12-1 in 2019) Series: Bears lead 101-74-5 and have won four straight. Last meeting: Bears won 24-20 on Nov. 28, 2019 in Detroit. The Bears rallied from deficits of 17-7 and 20-17 on Thanksgiving Day at Ford Field behind Mitchell Trubisky, ...
With MLS players starting to return to their teams' respective training facilities, the league is considering a resumption of the season in June or July, with the possibility of all games in Orlando at the outset, the Washington Post reported. According to the report, ...
Brandon Beane's work is almost done when it comes to signing his draft picks. The Buffalo Bills' general manager reached agreement with three more rookies Friday, with the team announcing that Iowa defensive end A.J. Epenesa (second round), Central ...
In its pursuit of new revenue streams, perhaps UCLA should consider the delivery business. The coronavirus pandemic hasn't stopped the Bruins. Why would rain, sleet or snow? The search for an athletic director to replace Dan Guerrero has entered its final ...
Editor's note: NFL.com is breaking down all 32 team schedules for the 2020 season. Here are the three games Minnesota Vikings fans should circle on their calendars this fall: Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints, Wee 16, Dec. 25 (Fri), 4:30 p.m. ET ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo's social media accounts were hacked on Thursday afternoon and several bizarre and offensive tweets were posted, according to the Milwaukee Bucks, Antetokounmpo's brother and the player's representatives.
The NFL released its 2020 schedule Thursday night, and whether it happens as scheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent aftereffects remains to be seen. But the league is at least attempting to project that things could be "normal" ...
Andrel Anthony Jr. has tried to use the unexpected break created by the coronavirus pandemic to his benefit. The 6-foot-3 East Lansing junior wide receiver has used some of his time doing more research on the many programs that have offered him ...
The Cowboys open the regular season in Los Angeles on a Sunday night in September. Unless they don't. A league determined to introduce a sense of certainty into an uncertain world released its schedule Thursday evening. The Cowboys calendar is set.
Bill Braucher, a sportswriter at The News-Herald in the late 1950s and early in the 1960s, played a major role in Don Shula becoming head coach of the Miami Dolphins in 1970. Braucher, who passed away in 2004 at age 77, attended John Carroll University ...
BALTIMORE — The lawyer for the wife of Baltimore Ravens safety Earl Thomas said she is being subjected to an "unfounded ongoing investigation" by Texas police after she allegedly pointed a loaded gun at her husband's head upon finding him in bed with ...
The National Football League unveiled the 2020 schedule on Thursday night and fans of the Los Angeles Chargers got their first glimpse of when the team will make its debut in the inaugural SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA. The Chargers will open their 2020 ...
While the Bulls aren't saying much publicly about Jim Boylen's future, new executive VP of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley have received a "mixed bag of feedback" on Boylen and are believed to be leaning ...
In a battle of two aging lightweights looking to get back into contention at the top of the division, Donald Cerrone will face Anthony Pettis in a preliminary bout at UFC 249 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday night. Donald ...
Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant passed away in January. He was aboard a helicopter with his daughter Gianna and seven others when the pilot lost control and crashed in Calabasas, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The tragic ...
With six home games left on the Penguins' 2019-20 schedule and no word from the NHL on if, when or where those games will be played, the team is offering ticket holders a choice. In an email sent to season-ticket holders Friday, the Penguins said fans can ...
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