Pamela MaldonadoOct 3, 2025, 07:03 AM ET Close Pamela Maldonado is a sports betting analyst for ESPN. This is a sentence I never thought I’d type: Undefeated Vanderbilt is rolling into Tuscaloosa with playoff chatter starting to swirl. And yet, here we are. The Commodores are 5-0, playing with confidence and looking nothing like the...
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua now has the most receptions (52) through five games to begin an NFL season after his 10-catch, 85-yard, one-touchdown performance in a 26-23 overtime home loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday. Nacua has amassed 588 receiving yards and two touchdowns as well. The former BYU star,...
Bill BarnwellOct 2, 2025, 06:15 AM ET Close Bill Barnwell is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. He analyzes football on and off the field like no one else on the planet, writing about in-season X’s and O’s, offseason transactions and so much more. He is the host of the Bill Barnwell Show podcast, with...
The NFL’s Week 5 slate lightens up slightly, as the first bye weeks come into play, with four organizations getting an early reprieve. Plenty of excitement still surrounds the weekend’s action, with Jayden Daniels expected back in the Washington Commanders’ lineup, Jaxson Dart making his second start for the New York Giants and Dillon Gabriel...
Count Xander Bogaerts among those looking forward to Major League Baseball’s new challenge system for balls and strikes next season. The San Diego Padres shortstop just wishes it were in place a little earlier. Bogaerts struck out looking on a pitch that appeared out of the strike zone during the ninth inning of the team’s...
PGA of America president Don Rea Jr., who initially compared vitriolic comments at the Ryder Cup to what could be heard at a youth soccer game, apologized Thursday in an email to the 30,000-plus golf professionals he was elected to serve. Europe built a record lead after two days and held on for a 15-13...
NEW YORK — Rookie right-hander Cam Schlittler struck out 12 as he shut down Boston with 100 mph heat, and the New York Yankees took advantage of a pair of misplays in a four-run fourth inning to beat the Red Sox 4-0 on Thursday night for a 2-1 AL Wild Card Series win and a...
Dick Groch, who is best known as the scout who helped convince the New York Yankees to select Derek Jeter with the No. 6 pick of the 1992 MLB draft, died Wednesday at the age of 84. The Yankees held a moment of silence ahead of Thursday’s American League Wild Card Series Game 3 against...
Bradford DoolittleOct 2, 2025, 06:12 PM ET Close MLB writer and analyst for ESPN.com Former NBA writer and analyst for ESPN.com Been with ESPN since 2013 CLEVELAND — For two games and five innings, the Detroit Tigers’ offense was constantly knocking but when it mattered most, no one seemed to answer. Finally, Dillon Dingler opened...
Alexa PhilippouOct 2, 2025, 03:49 PM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark said Napheesa Collier...