9:41 AM ET Aaron Rodgers turned down a two-year extension offer from the Green Bay Packers this offseason, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The deal, sources said, would have tied the reigning MVP to the Packers for five more seasons and made him the highest-paid quarterback and player in football. Sources told Schefter in April
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8:17 AM ET In a parallel universe, we’d be days away from the high-stakes heavyweight title trilogy fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder that was originally scheduled to take place Saturday. Unfortunately for fight fans looking forward to another big heavyweight clash, Fury contracted COVID-19, and that fight appears destined to take place in
8:00 AM ET Former West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck still remembers, with vivid clarity, the day Pittsburgh and Syracuse officially announced they were bailing on the Big East to move to the ACC. He was headed east from Morgantown to the West Virginia-Maryland football game on Sept. 17, 2011, and made a plan to
5:18 PM ET MILWAUKEE — Before the Phoenix Suns even arrived in Milwaukee for the biggest game of their lives in Tuesday’s Game 6 of the NBA Finals (9 p.m. ET, ABC), their coach could sense his team’s hangover had cleared from Saturday’s tough loss in Game 5. “When we got on the plane, the
4:00 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen The men’s soccer tournament at the Olympic Games gets underway on Wednesday in Japan and there are plenty of top young players on show until the gold medal match on Aug. 7. Traditionally, the men’s Olympic tournament only allows countries to use players under the age of 23, with the
6:33 AM ET Wisconsin plays Wisconsin football. Iowa is Iowa. Northwestern does Northwestern things. Minnesota is increasingly Minnesota. The Big Ten West might have more proven entities than any other division in college football. But for such a reliable division, the West has been pretty difficult to forecast of late. In 2018, defending champion Wisconsin
During a warm-up game in England on Tuesday, India cricketers paid tribute to the late Yashpal Sharma by wearing black armbands. Yashpal Sharma, a member of the 1983 World Cup-winning Indian team, passed away on July 13 at the age of 66 after suffering a cardiac arrest. Team India is playing a three-day warm-up match
7:00 AM ET The Seattle Kraken will stretch their tentacles and pluck players from 30 teams on Wednesday night in the NHL expansion draft, starting at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2. Every team except the Vegas Golden Knights, the 2017 expansion franchise that was exempt from this draft, submitted lists of protected players to the
5:00 AM ET Kathleen McNamee While the men’s football competition at the Olympics is often an opportunity to get a sneak peek of some up-and-coming talent, the women’s competition is stacked with both new and recognisable names. With no age limits in the women’s comp and with squads being expanded this year thanks to COVID-19
9:26 PM ET Eight Oakland City Council members will cast non-binding votes for a proposed $12 billion development and ballpark plan on Tuesday morning. An affirmative vote will simply keep the ambitious project alive, but a dissenting vote, the Oakland Athletics say, will kick-start the team’s relocation efforts. Speaking roughly 22 hours before that crucial
Fernando Alonso is on course to secure a seat at the Alpine team next season, their chief executive officer Laurent Rossi says. Rossi revealed that Alonso is on a “one-plus-one” contract this season, with an option the team can take up for 2022. “He is doing great,” Rossi told BBC Sport. “He is as fast
English cricket takes a step into the unknown with the launch of The Hundred, a brand new 100 balls per side format, on Wednesday. Cricket already has several established professional formats at domestic and international level, first-class games, which includes five-day Tests, 50 overs per side one-dayers and Twenty20 matches. But even though Twenty20 was
8:23 PM ET Las Vegas Raiders president Marc Badain, instrumental in the team’s move from Oakland and a key member of the organization for 30 years, resigned on Monday. The issued a news release with a statement from owner Mark Davis, calling Badain “an integral part of the Raider Family,” spanning a tenure that saw
4:21 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN MILWAUKEE – For eight years, Giannis Antetokounmpo has worked toward the moment he and the Milwaukee Bucks find themselves in right now: one win away from an NBA championship. So it should come with little surprise that Monday afternoon, a little more than 24 hours before playing the biggest game
5:29 PM ET ESPN News Services New York Mets manager Luis Rojas was handed a two-game suspension and an undisclosed fine by Major League Baseball on Monday for “excessive arguing” with umpires during Sunday’s 7-6 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Rojas will begin serving the suspension during Monday’s game at Cincinnati. Rojas was ejected in
4:05 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — LSU coach Ed Orgeron hasn’t made a decision between starting Myles Brennan or Max Johnson, but he said he believes in both players and sees them as “championship quarterbacks.” Brennan, a senior, started LSU’s first three games last season, throwing for 1,112 yards and 11 touchdowns, before an abdominal
5:22 PM ET NCAA president Mark Emmert made $2.9 million during the 2019-2020 fiscal year, a time period when pandemic-related closures caused the organization’s revenue to drop by more than 50 percent. The organization brought in $521 million between Sept. 1, 2019 and Aug. 31, 2020, down from more than $1 billion in revenue the
6:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — On Tuesday, a portion of the Dallas Cowboys‘ team will fly to California for the start of training camp. On Wednesday, owner and general manager Jerry Jones, executive vice president Stephen Jones and coach Mike McCarthy will hold a state of the team news conference. On Thursday, the players