Month: September 2024

Maarten Paes is the starting goalkeeper for Major League Soccer team FC Dallas. Yet he can walk down a busy street in Dallas, Texas, and nobody will notice him. That is not the case online. Or in Indonesia. Like his team-mates in the Indonesia national team, Paes is mobbed when he visits the country and […]

When it comes to starting quarterback clarity, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur and Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin are masters of the great American sports pastime: YWTKAINTY — You Want To Know And I’m Not Telling You. (OK, that’s not a real pastime.) Both are exemplary coaches, both are competitive and both love the pettiness […]

Kentucky upset No. 6 Ole Miss 20-17 on Saturday after the Rebels missed a 48-yard field goal with 48 seconds left, dealing a blow to the College Football Playoff hopes of an Ole Miss team with some of the highest expectations in program history. The Wildcats (3-2, 1-2 SEC) went for it on fourth-and-7 at […]

Trade talks that persisted forever somehow came together quickly. The New York Knicks are about to employ Karl-Anthony Towns — and the deal took them only a nano-decade to get done. The Knicks have coveted Towns ever since team president Leon Rose took over the organization in 2020, when Rose left his former post at […]

If 0-3 spells danger, then 0-4 spells disaster for an NFL team. The Jacksonville Jaguars and Cincinnati Bengals — both with high expectations entering the year — could find themselves in that position after Sunday. Before the season, some might not have expected Minnesota Vikings–Green Bay Packers to arguably be Week 4’s most interesting game. […]

Nick Saban has been an excellent addition to ESPN’s “College GameDay,” adding deep and digestible film analysis, well-prepared insight on teams around the country and a sense of humor that may surprise some — culminating in Saturday’s back and forth with the show’s “celebrity guest picker” from Tuscaloosa, his wife, Terry. But he has a […]

By Rustin Dodd, Zack Meisel and Andy McCullough When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers snapped a record 26-game losing streak in December 1977, head coach John McKay tried to look on the bright side. “Three or four plane crashes and we’re in the playoffs,” he said. It was hard to blame him. The year before, the […]

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced that it will appeal against the “no fault or negligence” finding in Jannik Sinner’s anti-doping case. WADA is seeking a “period of ineligibility of one or two years,” in which the world No. 1 tennis player and two-time Grand Slam champion would be barred from competing in the […]

The mania around Cooper Flagg at Duke is here. And it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Flagg, the Class of 2024’s most-hyped recruit and projected 2025 No. 1 NBA Draft pick, spoke publicly Friday for the first time since starting his career with the Blue Devils. Sporting a “Dream Biggest” Duke T-shirt, the 6-foot-9 freshman […]