Keith Jenkins Sep 25, 2024, 04:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NASCAR has crowned a Cup Series champion every year since 1949. The title is decided by a scoring system that awards drivers points based on race results throughout the season. Although several drivers have won multiple championships, there’s only one who earned the nickname
Buster Olney Close Buster Olney ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer ESPN Magazine/ESPN.com Analyst/reporter ESPN television Author of “The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty” Jesse Rogers Close Jesse Rogers ESPN Staff Writer Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Sep 25, 2024, 11:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MORE THAN
Pete Thamel Adam Rittenberg Close Adam Rittenberg ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Sep 25, 2024, 01:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluka left the undefeated Rebels on Tuesday night over claims of unfulfilled verbal NIL promises from a UNLV assistant coach, a decision
Mark Fainaru-Wada, ESPN Staff WriterSep 25, 2024, 02:30 PM ET Close Investigative reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit since 2007 Co-author of New York Times best-selling books “League of Denial” and “Game of Shadows” Co-winner, 2004 George Polk Award Open Extended Reactions In a letter to two senators who accused the NBA of “putting
James Regan Sep 25, 2024, 12:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Chris Eubank Jr. unleashed a host of scathing criticisms on various boxing promoters on Wednesday at the Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol prefight news conference, labelling them “scumbags.” Beterbiev and Bivol will fight on Oct. 12 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the
Former India opener Shikhar Dhawan on Wednesday revealed that he didn’t have the “inspiration” left to take the domestic cricket route for a place in the national side and that was the reason why he chose to retire from the game last month. The 38-year-old Dhawan retired from international and domestic cricket late in August
Getty Images 1 hour ago Great Britain’s Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl won silver in the women’s B road race at the UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships in Zurich. Fresh from claiming two gold medals at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Unwin and Holl finished second to Irish tandem Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda
Andreas Hale, ESPNSep 25, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Former ONE Championship two-division titleholder Reinier de Ridder has signed with the UFC and will make his promotional debut against Gerald Meerschaert on Nov. 9, the promotion announced on Wednesday. De Ridder (17-2) held both the light heavyweight and middleweight titles for ONE Championship
Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Marty Smith Close Marty Smith ESPN ESPN NASCAR lead reporter Former NASCAR.com senior writer 15 years covering NASCAR Sep 25, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ATHENS, Ga. —
Gabriele Marcotti, Senior Writer, ESPN FCSep 25, 2024, 09:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Two things are pretty obvious when it comes to the question of whether top footballers play too many games, and whether they ought to consider strike action. One is that this isn’t “workers vs. owners” or “us vs. them” — it’s
ESPN News Services Sep 24, 2024, 11:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HOUSTON — Jason Heyward hit a go-ahead, two-run homer and made a dazzling defensive play as the Houston Astros beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 on Tuesday night to clinch their fourth consecutive American League West championship. Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker each added
John Keim, ESPN Staff WriterSep 24, 2024, 07:40 PM ET Close John Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2013 after a stint with the Washington Post. He started covering the team in 1994 for the Journal Newspapers and later for the Washington Examiner. He has authored/co-authored four books. You can
ESPN News Services Sep 24, 2024, 04:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Memphis Grizzlies will retire guard Tony Allen’s No. 9 jersey on March 15, the team announced Tuesday. Allen’s number will be raised to the FedExForum rafters following a game against the Miami Heat. He is the third Grizzlies player to have his
Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterSep 25, 2024, 07:45 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions South Korea’s Sungjae Im and Australia’s Min Woo Lee were born in 1998, the same year the International team captured its only Presidents Cup
Jitesh Sharma could well pip Ishan Kishan for second wicketkeeper’s slot in the Suryakumar Yadav-led Indian T20 team which will play three T20Is against the Bangladesh starting October 6 in Gwalior. The squad is expected to be announced this week. The second and third T20Is will be held in New Delhi and Hyderabad on October 9 and 12
Sep 25, 2024, 07:14 AM ET Open Extended Reactions This weekend belongs to women’s boxing. Three title fights divided in three boxing cards will take place in New York, Georgia and Sheffield, England. On Friday at The Theater inside Madison Square Garden, Sandy Ryan will make the first defense of her WBO welterweight title against
Sep 25, 2024, 07:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Fall is officially here, and the UFC’s calendar is jam-packed with big events and intriguing matchups set for the next few months. On Saturday, lightweights Renato Moicano and Benoît Saint Denis will headline UFC Fight Night as the promotion returns to Paris after last hosting a
Associated Press Sep 25, 2024, 06:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BEIJING — Former top-ranked Naomi Osaka started the China Open with a routine 6-3, 6-2 victory over Lucia Bronzetti on Wednesday. The four-time Grand Slam champion was the headline act on the opening day and showed her class in closing out the first-round match