As another Thanksgiving rolls around, we take the time to appreciate not only our day-to-day blessings and the joy of friends and family, but to check in on how others are celebrating the United States’ annual tradition of gratitude. For fighters, there’s a wide range of things one could be grateful for, whether it’s a lengthy winning streak, a lucrative fight or two under circumstances that no one could have predicted (we’re looking at you, Francis Ngannou), or even just being healthy enough to make it through another calendar year of combat sports without a major injury. To all the…
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Statesboro (Ga.) High Top247 athlete Kamron Mikell announced his commitment to Colorado on Thanksgiving Day, choosing to play for head coach Deion Sanders and his staff over his other finalists in Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Texas A&M.Ranked by 247Sports as the nation’s No. 4 athlete and No. 79 prospect overall, he will begin his career in Boulder at wide receiver but will also lineup in the secondary down the road. He is the jewel of a Buffaloes class that now has 10 commits.“The place, they’re a different place,” Mikell told 247Sports prior to going public with his plans. “Even…
Cody Bellinger is a free agent. MLB.com is keeping track of the latest news and rumors surrounding the 2019 NL MVP. Nov. 23: Another potential obstacle for Bellinger, YanksThe Yankees are widely considered one of the strongest contenders for Bellinger, but there’s one major reason they could be a worse fit than previously thought. As noted by MLB Network insider Jon Heyman in the New York Post on Thursday, New York’s preference for players with above-average hard-hit rates could be a problem for Bellinger, whose 31.4% hard-hit rate in 2023 ranked in the 10th percentile among qualifying hitters. Further complicating…
Welcome to the first edition of our 2023-24 MVP rankings. The season is just about 15 games old for every team so we have a solid enough sample size to start making some proclamations and educated guesses at this point. Who will come in first? The player who won Finals MVP and is a reigning champion? Or the fellow center who took league MVP honors in 2022-23? And what about the Canadian ball-handler who’s in otherworldy form right now? Find that and much more out below as we present our 2023-24 MVP rankings. Note: The Form Rating stat we used…
Rob DemovskyCloseRob DemovskyESPN Staff WriterRob Demovsky is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Green Bay Packers. He has covered the Packers since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2013. Demovsky is a two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year as selected by the NSSA. You can follow him on Twitter at @RobDemovsky.Eric WoodyardCloseEric WoodyardESPNEric Woodyard covers the Detroit Lions for ESPN. He joined ESPN in September 2019 as an NBA reporter dedicated to the Midwest region before switching to his current role in April 2021. The Flint, Mich. native is a graduate of Western Michigan University and has authored/co-authored three…
Ben Healy’s kicking has proved vital to Edinburgh’s good start to the URC seasonIt was, says Ben Healy, “incredibly, incredibly tough”, an awful experience in the Parisian night when Scotland lost to Ireland at the World Cup.Once of Munster and now of Edinburgh, Healy spoke about the travails of the World Cup on the latest BBC Scotland Rugby Podcast, reliving the routing of his adopted land by a team he had always dreamed of playing for, from his childhood days in Tipperary and then his five years alongside the O’Mahonys and the Earls and the Murrays and all those other…
The ECB has defended the concept of “Super September” after unveiling the men’s and women’s domestic fixtures calendar for 2024, with five domestic competitions set to be decided in the final month of the season, alongside a possible 15 days of men’s international cricket.Neil Snowball, managing director of Competitions and Major Events, conceded that the ECB had “had our hand forced” in avoiding high-profile scheduling clashes in 2024, given the ICC’s staging of the Men’s T20 World Cup in the Caribbean and the USA between June 4-30, and the knock-on effect on England’s major-match schedule for their home season -…
By Rune Gjerulff @runegjerulff Here are our Fantasy Bundesliga scout squad picks for Matchday 12. Three of our Fantasy Bundesliga writers have each selected a squad of 10 outfield players for the 12th matchday of the season. In order to make our teams more variable, all formations are allowed, each squad cannot cost more than 100M and can only contain players owned by less than 20% of the Fantasy Bundesliga managers. In addition, each manager is allowed to select a captain, who earns double points, and can only select up to three players from the same team. Without further ado, here are…
With the international break now over, Chelsea stars from across the globe are heading back to Cobham to switch their focus on to Saturday’s trip to Newcastle United.Christopher Nkunku and Wesley Fofana both used the break to get back out on the grass after lengthy injury absences and they’ll be keen to welcome back their teammates ahead of what could be one of the toughest tests of the season.Here’s the highlights from Mauricio Pochettino’s squad during November’s international break.Palmer made his debut / Matthew Ashton – AMA/GettyImagesCole Palmer will forever remember this international break as he was handed his first…
Former Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has heaped praise on Harry Maguire after his resurgence this season. The 30-year-old was purchased by the Norwegian during his managerial tenure at Old Trafford. The former Leicester City star enjoyed a promising start for the Red Devils but things went downhill for him after the first two seasons. After dismissing Solskjaer, Man Utd opted to appoint Erik ten Hag as the new manager at the beginning of last term and Maguire found it difficult to break into Ten Hag’s first eleven last season. The Dutch boss was even ready to cash-in on…