We’re officially four weeks into the NFL season, so it is time to start taking stock of what’s happened over the past month. We know the Eagles are still the Eagles, as they’ve won 20 of their last 21 games stretching back to last season. Some other playoff teams from last season continue to look strong (the Bills, Bucs, Rams …
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Jake TrotterSep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM ET Close Jake Trotter is a senior writer at ESPN. Trotter covers college football. He also writes about other college sports, including men’s and women’s basketball. Trotter resides in the Cleveland area with his wife and three kids and is a fan of his hometown Oklahoma City Thunder. He covered the Cleveland Browns and …
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The Red Sox on Friday clinched their first postseason berth since 2021. Playoff baseball officially is back in Boston, thanks to a walk-off win over the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park. So, what’s next? Well, that will be decided over the weekend. All we knew entering Saturday was that the Red Sox would be on the road for their best-of-three …
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Brooke PryorSep 27, 2025, 10:47 AM ET Close Brooke Pryor is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN who has covered the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2019. She previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and the University of Oklahoma for The Oklahoman. DUBLIN — Convincing NFL teams to play international games isn’t the task it used …
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Quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson – arguably the NFL’s top two players – have continued to dazzle early this season. The teams they lead? Well, not so much. Despite Mahomes’ typical playmaking wizardry, the Kansas City Chiefs have struggled during their uncharacteristically slow start. Likewise for the Baltimore Ravens, who haven’t provided much support for Jackson – the greatest …
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In Cincinnati, this is how bad it was. They saved the gear that you got from the league that they ordered. They wouldn’t pass out a lot of the gear there. And they would have a garage sale at the end of the year so they could make some money back. Yes, they had a sale with all of the …
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The time has come at last. Beginning in 2026, the SEC will match its primary conference rival, the Big Ten, and move to a nine-game conference schedule. Along with the elimination of divisions ahead of the 2024 season, the SEC football schedule has been radically reshaped as the sport continues to adapt in the College Football Playoff era. Commissioner Greg …
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For the latest example of a major-league manager’s volatile existence, look no further than the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Torey Lovullo. True, Lovullo is the fourth-longest tenured manager, behind only the Tampa Bay Rays’ Kevin Cash, Los Angeles Dodgers’ Dave Roberts and Atlanta Braves’ Brian Snitker. But during a 1-9 stretch that dropped the DBacks in late May, it occured to me …
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Offensive coordinator John Morton, defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard and special teams coordinator Dave Fipp spoke to the media Thursday ahead of Detroit’s matchup against the Cleveland Browns Sunday at Ford Field. Here are my 10 biggest takeaways from those media sessions: 1. Sheppard credited the execution more than the game plan itself for the defensive performance against Baltimore last week. …
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he doesn’t believe there’s an issue with Tom Brady being both a minority owner of the Raiders and the No. 1 analyst on Fox. Before calling a game on Sunday, Brady gets access to the teams that wouldn’t be given to any other minority owner of a rival team. But Goodell says teams can refuse …
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