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Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterNov 19, 2024, 10:40 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions It was easy to wonder if there might be a little bit of a hangover this season. Mike Norvell weathered a strange, stair-stepping climb to greatness with Florida State — his Seminoles went

Emily Kaplan, ESPNNov 18, 2024, 08:25 AM ET Close Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Open Extended Reactions As the New York Rangers and Igor Shesterkin‘s camp negotiate for a new contract, the goalie doesn’t want to talk about what’s at stake — though everyone else around the league does. According to sources, Shesterkin

Bradford Doolittle, ESPN Staff WriterNov 18, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Sports reporter, Kansas City Star, 2002-09 Writer, Baseball, Baseball Prospectus Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus Member, Baseball Writers Association of America Member, Professional Basketball Writers Association Open Extended Reactions Welcome to MLB Awards Week. November has become awards season in baseball, which increasingly serves as

Jeff Kassouf Nov 16, 2024, 03:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Washington Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury saved all three penalties she faced as the Spirit defeated reigning champion NJ/NY Gotham FC 3-0 in a penalty shootout on Saturday at Audi Field to advance to next week’s NWSL Championship. The two teams played to a 1-1

James Regan Nov 14, 2024, 03:57 PM Open Extended Reactions Within two matches, England’s autumn has turned from hopeful to something a little more agonising as they prepare to welcome two-time reigning World Cup champions South Africa to Twickenham on Saturday. It has been a difficult couple of weeks for Steve Borthwick’s side. They have

Mark Kriegel, ESPNNov 15, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Having covered Mike Tyson since his most famously unsanctioned bout — a predawn TKO of Mitch “Blood” Green at an after-hours clothing boutique in Harlem, New York, on Aug. 23, 1988 — and having spent the past three-plus years anatomizing his ascent as a

Jeff Wagenheim Nov 15, 2024, 07:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Two weeks ago was the 50th anniversary of The Rumble in the Jungle, and all of the bouquets being laid at the feet of that classic heavyweight championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman got me thinking about — of all things

Field Level Media Nov 14, 2024, 07:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Along with national pride, it appears members of the United States’ 2025 Ryder Cup team will have another incentive when teeing off against their European counterparts at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y. Lots of zeros. A vote by the PGA of America will

Michael C. Wright, ESPN Staff WriterNov 13, 2024, 10:47 PM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2010 Previously covered Bears for ESPN.com Played college football at West Texas A&M Open Extended Reactions SAN ANTONIO — Call it a week of milestones for San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama, who followed up his first 30-point game of

ESPN News Services Nov 12, 2024, 07:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The San Francisco 49ers and cornerback Deommodore Lenoir have reached a five-year, $92 million extension, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler on Tuesday. Lenoir, 25, is in the final year of the rookie deal he signed after being the 172nd pick (fifth round)

David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterNov 12, 2024, 09:05 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions The committee has released its second crack at the top 25, and it’s (almost) all Big Ten at the top. That might seem a bit strange to the

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Nov 12, 2024, 10:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Coco Gauff opened the 2024 season with the title in Auckland. And while there were ups-and-downs along the way, she finished the season just as she started, with another victory, by winning the WTA Finals at the year-end event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNNov 12, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Open Extended Reactions NHL Awards are not typically won in the first month of the season — but there are always exceptions. Look at the NHL Awards Watch from one year ago. Quinn Hughes ended up winning the Norris

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterNov 11, 2024, 02:21 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions Joey Logano took home his third NASCAR Cup Series championship on Sunday in Phoenix. Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Legitimacy (li-jit-uh-muh-see) noun. The state

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, a single sentence from baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti still reverberates: “The matter of Mr. Rose is now closed.” Those words, which cemented Pete Rose’s lifetime ban for gambling on the team he managed, landed like a gavel in August 1989: authoritative, unambiguous, final — and yet wholly untrue. Rose was 83

Associated Press Nov 10, 2024, 07:04 PM ET Open Extended Reactions AVONDALE, Ariz. — Eliminated from the playoffs at the end of the second round, Joey Logano received a second chance when another competitor was disqualified. He pounced on the opportunity. Logano was added to the round of eight following Alex Bowman‘s disqualification and immediately

Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentNov 10, 2024, 05:00 AM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Open Extended Reactions Did you ever have a nightmare that seemed so real it took every fiber of your being to wrench yourself back into consciousness, at which point the relief that

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterNov 9, 2024, 07:18 PM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions LONDON — When the clock ticked into the 80th minute, this was going to be a

Associated Press Nov 8, 2024, 08:51 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Paul Waring hit the shot of his life to complete a career-low 11-under 61 in the second round of the Abu Dhabi Championship on Friday and establish a five-stroke lead heading into the weekend of the European tour’s

Ohm Youngmisuk, ESPN Staff WriterNov 7, 2024, 03:14 AM ET Close Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is