Week 15 of the 2021 NFL season will have a different feel thanks to postponements resulting from a leaguewide COVID-19 outbreak. The Steelers kept their playoff hopes very much alive with a win over the Titans, who came up short on a last-minute fourth-down play, and the Dolphins hung on in a back-and-forth game with […]
The Nets’ roster has been crushed by COVID-19, with 10 players now in protocols, including Durant, Irving, James Harden and LaMarcus Aldridge. Nets general manager Sean Marks said the decision to bring Irving back, reversing course after deciding on Oct. “I walked to the arena today, and there’s several lines out there for COVID testing, […]
Sanford, 39, spent the past two seasons in the same role at Minnesota, which did not renew his contract for the 2022 season. Sanford, the son of former UNLV and Indiana State coach Mike Sanford, spent the 2017 and 2018 seasons as Western Kentucky’s head coach, going 9-16. …Read the full story
The Tar Heels were traveling out of the city — where they had watched former UNC star Cole Anthony and the Magic play the New York Knicks the previous night — to Gainesville for a scrimmage against Florida. As a player — including at North Carolina under Dean Smith — he had earned a reputation […]
Thomas joins the roster under the hardship exemption, which allows a team to exceed the 15-player maximum. I will say if Russell didn’t play, we definitely intended to split up Russell’s minutes with Rondo and I.T. Avery Bradley, Talen Horton-Tucker and Dwight Howard will miss Friday’s game as they remain in the league’s health and […]
Chicago has not played since last Saturday night against the Miami Heat after a teamwide COVID-19 outbreak put 10 of its players in the league’s health and safety protocols. “We’re dealing with a conditioning factor, we’re dealing with a rhythm and timing situation,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan told reporters on Zoom earlier this week. Although […]
As of Friday, the Browns have had a total of 24 players — 12 starters, including the punter — who either tested positive for COVID-19 this week or were still on the reserve/COVID-19 list from last week. The Raiders had hoped the NFL would draw a harder line on pushing games through as scheduled, especially […]
But then at the same time, you know, we’re trying to play for him the rest of the way, and that’s what our guys did tonight. Parham, in his second year with Los Angeles, got his hands on a 5-yard pass from Justin Herbert in the back of the end zone on fourth-and-goal but dropped […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Louisville volleyball coach Dani Busboom Kelly was named the national coach of the year and got a contract extension Thursday. “I always hoped to coach a team that really understood what it took to be in this position,” said Busboom Kelly, who was hoping to become the first female head coach to […]
Washington was the only professional football team Hauss played for during a durable career that spanned from 1964 to 1977 and included 196 total regular-season games, with 194 starts. …Read the full story
Ferkel, who along with Pelicans team doctors performed the initial surgery on Williamson’s fractured right foot, gave him the biologic injection on Wednesday. …Read the full story
After the injury, he went through limited practice for one day before being ruled out for the rest of the week, including last Sunday’s road loss to the Denver Broncos. Even without Hockenson or running back D’Andre Swift, who hasn’t played yet this month because of a shoulder injury, Goff insists that players haven’t given […]
INGLEWOOD, Calif. Ekeler, the mother of Chargers dynamo running back Austin Ekeler, rushes to get to her seat almost as fast as her son does on the field. She responds with an answer that just about any other mother in her position would give, that she’s just happy to be in a position to be […]
And while he’d earned coach Frank Vogel’s trust up to this point in the season, the main reason Reaves was logging 9½ minutes in the fourth quarter on Wednesday plus the entire five minutes of overtime was because L.A. When Reaves received the pass from Russell Westbrook and let it fly from the right wing […]
“I’m living right here, right now,” Roethlisberger said Wednesday, asked if he thinks about how his own career will end. “You look at guys sometimes and look in their eyes and see what they have,” Roethlisberger said. Just because you’re losing a football game or the season isn’t going the way you want it to, […]
A source told Schefter that Mayfield, who was placed on the COVID-19/reserve list, feels “completely normal” despite the positive test. …Read the full story
Caesars Sportsbook briefly took the Raiders-Browns game off the board Wednesday, after news that Cleveland quarterback Baker Mayfield had tested positive for COVID-19. Mayfield is among 14 Browns players, in addition to coach Kevin Stefanski, who have been placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list in the past two days, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. “We don’t […]
In Sunday’s 24-22 loss in Cleveland, Jackson sprained his right ankle on the first play of the second quarter and was carted to the locker room. “So him getting the reps today, if he has to play on Sunday, will be a benefit. Huntley, 23, has impressed the Ravens after going undrafted out of Utah […]
