The roster percentages for this column are updated every Friday morning. In addition, all players from Thursday's Broncos-Jets game have been removed. Each week of the NFL season, we will identify fantasy football waiver-wire pickups specifically for those ...
Last week two AP top-six teams lost straight up to unranked opponents on the same day for the first time since November 2016, including Kansas State toppling Oklahoma as a 27.5-point underdog. Florida and Clemson will look to avoid that fate this week.
Three quarterbacks. Two are franchise foundations. The other, in Chicago, just got benched. The 2017 draft was a case study in one of the sport's most confounding puzzles: How to pick the right QB. photo of Kalyn Kahler Kalyn KahlerContributor IInvalid Date.
The best gig in sports media is the radio host, for a variety of reasons. One key reason is this: The radio host can become a reporter from time to time, without the accountability that goes along with it. If the radio host who breaks news is right, the radio host gets ...
If I told you there's a team scoring an average of 29.7 points per game over their first three games, without any context whatsoever, you'd likely assume they're 3-0 and lapping all opposition placed in front of them. You'd think that's where the Dallas Cowboys ...
Two more Tennessee Titans players have tested positive for COVID-19, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. Officials from the NFL and the NFL Players Association are in Nashville to check into the spread of the coronavirus on the team, sources told ESPN, ...
In what should be a classic Big 12 shootout, the 18th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners visit the Iowa State Cyclones in a critical conference showdown on Saturday. Kickoff from Jack Trice Stadium is set for 7:30 p.m. ET. The Sooners (1-1) are hoping to bounce back ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. – Allen Lazard, the player deemed totally replaceable when he failed to make the roster coming out of training camp last summer, has turned himself into one of the more irreplaceable players on the Green Bay Packers' roster. Now, the ...
The Denver Broncos are still trying to find their placeholder until Drew Lock returns from injury, and they may have that standby in Brett Rypien. Head coach Vic Fangio isn't ready to commit to the second-year quarterback just yet, though, despite Rypien ...
The Miami Marlins will look to advance to the National League Divisional Series when they take on the Chicago Cubs on Friday in the 2020 MLB Playoffs. The Marlins lead the best-of-three Wild Card Series 1-0 after beating the Cubs 5-1 on Wednesday when ...
The second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide takes on the 13th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday afternoon at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The game will be broadcasted live on CBS. Both Alabama and Texas A&M enter Saturday's SEC ...
Fact-checkers have been very busy since Tuesday night in culling through the claims of president Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Joe Biden during the first presidential debate, but one Trump statement was easily to debunk almost immediately.
The Packers need Davante Adams more than ever, and he's getting closer to a return from his own hamstring injury. But he said yesterday he wants to make sure he's back to 100 percent before he puts himself back in a game. "Correct," Adams said, via Jim ...
1. Points aplenty. Much like last week's game against the Rams, this week's matchup features a pair of teams big on putting up points. The Bills (31 ppg) are one of six NFL clubs averaging 30 points per game or more through the first three weeks of the 2020 ...
No team expects to start winless in its first three games, including the Giants, who spent an entire spring and summer being exposed to every little detail possible to prepare them for the marathon that is the NFL season. Yet here they are, winless after three ...
"Let him cook!'' seems to be a thing, a meme, right now. (Or maybe it's been one for years and we're just not hip enough to have caught on.) "Let Russ Cook!'' in Seattle is especially popular. But when it comes to Sunday's Week 4 Minnesota Vikings at ...
Every now and again, a clip from the game show "Jeopardy!" gains on traction online not because of an individual's trivia prowess, but rather because a group of purportedly intelligent people flat out stink at a category a good chunk of the general public would ...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Barcelona was teetering on the brink of complete disaster after Bayern Munich crushed its reputation in a historic 8-2 defeat that even made Lionel Messi believe it was time to abandon his club. But less than two months later, ...
Certainly, no one wore a suit better. Nor did anyone in blue mind the net better. Hail, hail, Henrik Lundqvist. Long live The King, one of the finest ever to don a uniform in any sport in New York. But where, exactly, does Lundqvist rate among the big town's ...
The Tampa Bay Lightning winning the Stanley Cup on Monday finally brought to a close the 2019-20 NHL season. More than six months after the regular-season schedule was derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic and two months following the start of the ...
Memphis at SMU. When: 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in University Park. Records: SMU (3-0 overall, 0-0 American); Memphis (1-0, 0-0 American). Last meeting: Memphis 54, SMU 48, Nov. 2, 2019 (Memphis). TV: ESPN2. What's on the line.
The Eagles (0-2-1) are traveling to San Francisco to face the 49ers (2-1) on Sunday Night Football. Here's everything you need to know: 6:30 p.m.: Eagles Pregame Live on NBCSP; 8:20 p.m.: Eagles at 49ers on NBC; 11:30 p.m.: Eagles Postgame Live on ...
A position-by-position analysis of the AL West foes, who meet again in a Division Series at Dodger Stadium. CATCHER. Martin Maldonado's re-signing might not have received great fanfare, but he's been indispensable in helping the Astros' young pitchers ...
ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions are preparing for the possibility they will not be able to host fans into the month of November. The team told season-ticket holders on Friday it would be canceling all three-game packages that had been sold for the month.
ATLANTA — Picture this: The Atlanta Braves winning a playoff series for the first time in nearly a generation. That's certainly worth a few fake selfies. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. "I'm overcome with joy," said slugging outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr., ...
Borussia Dortmund insisted Friday there is no chance that England winger Jadon Sancho will join Manchester United before the transfer window closes in three days time. "We have of course had communication with Manchester, but everything there is to say ...
Sunday's in the fall usually belong to the NFL, but this week's Premier League slate should make man fans wake up a little earlier for a different kind of 'football.' Scroll to continue with content. Ad. Tottenham and Manchester United take the pitch at 11:30 a.m. ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Bruce Arians doesn't blame Tom Brady for looking for Mike Evans when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are close to the goal line. The 67-year-old coach jokes that even he could get the job done with one of the NFL's best receivers at his ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL and its players' union have agreed to continue daily COVID-19 testing except on game days until further notice. The league also told teams daily testing will be required for players and coaches during their clubs' bye weeks to ...
After another early playoff exit on Wednesday, Francisco Lindor's future with the Cleveland Indians is more uncertain than ever. For the fourth time in five years, the Cleveland Indians came up short in the postseason. Other than the World Series run in 2016, ...
PARIS — Waking up early Friday for his third-round match at the French Open, Dominic Thiem was surprised to see that the morning skies were still dark. Yup, Roland Garros in autumn, when the sun is slower to rouse itself than during the usual May-June ...
One of the top prospects in mixed martial arts has signed a new deal with Bellator MMA. Usman Nurmagomedov, cousin of undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, has signed an exclusive multi-year, multi-fight deal with the promotion, ...
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The shortened, 60-game regular season got rid of less than half of Major League Baseball's 30 teams. The expanded playoffs will see 16 teams play October baseball this year. Both the first and second place finishers in each of baseball's six divisions ...
New Hampshire Motor Speedway will host its 50th NASCAR Cup Series race on July 18, 2021, when the green flag drops for the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 in Loudon. NASCAR announced its 2021 schedule on Wednesday afternoon, and it includes ...
But there was bad news everywhere else. The White Sox saw two of their most exciting young players depart with apparent injuries in the first two innings. RELATED: Why Sox pulled Dunning after 15 pitches in Game 3 vs. A's. First it was Garrett Crochet, who ...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Sergiño Dest has a new contract, a new club, and the same old goal of following in the footsteps of Dani Alves. The speedy defender is the first American to be signed for Barcelona's senior team, where Alves spent eight years of a ...
Kansas football will have fans in the stands on Saturday for the first time in 2020. After averaging some 34,000 fans per game last year — a significant increase from the 2018 average of just over 19,000 — the Jayhawks opted to keep fans out of the stadium ...
BALTIMORE — The Ravens signed Marlon Humphrey to a five-year contract extension that will keep the All-Pro cornerback in Baltimore through the 2026 season, the team announced Thursday. The five-year deal is worth $98.75 million, including $40 million ...
Honda has decided to pull out of Formula One at the end of the 2021 season, dealing a blow to the motor racing series as carmakers worldwide grapple with the rising costs to develop zero-emissions technology. The decision casts a shadow ...
Last week, the football team upset Oklahoma and now looks toward a visit from the 1-1 Texas Tech Red Raiders on Saturday. Texas Tech is one of four Big 12 Conference teams who hired a new head coach before the 2019 season, along with Kansas State, ...
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