4 thoughts from Tuesday's Champions League action

The Champions League group stage concludes this week. Below, we dissect the biggest talking points from Tuesday’s action in Europe’s premier club competition. Mignolet made the Club Brugge surprise possible The departures of head coach Alfred Schreuder, playmaker Charles De Ketelaere, and towering frontman Bas Dost indicated Club Brugge was a team in transition. Many […]

They said it! Peyton Manning's reaction to Eli's 'Chad Powers' costume and more NFL quotes of the week

“Chad Powers” continues to fascinate and terrify, plus more from our NFL quotes of the week. “It’s a combination of Mrs. Doubtfire and Jason from Halloween …” — Peyton Manning, on his brother Eli’s “Chad Powers” mask during the ManningCast on “Monday Night Football” “I told him he couldn’t mess with me and he a […]

4 thoughts from Tuesday's Champions League action

The Champions League group stage concludes this week. Below, we dissect the biggest talking points from Tuesday’s action in Europe’s premier club competition. Mignolet made the Club Brugge surprise possible The departures of head coach Alfred Schreuder, playmaker Charles De Ketelaere, and towering frontman Bas Dost indicated Club Brugge was a team in transition. Many […]

Delivery man: Ryan's 3 lifts Lakers to OT in win

LOS ANGELES — As sick as LeBron James felt coming into Wednesday’s game against the New Orleans Pelicans — bedridden by a virus that even caused him to miss the team Halloween party — he surely would have felt sicker if the Los Angeles Lakers blew a 16-point lead and fell to 1-6. Turns out […]

Some tennis players turn to VR as 'game changer' when they're off court

In a sport where the margins are painfully small, players are always looking for new ways to get an edge in their preparation. Enter virtual reality.       

NFL data shows injury rates same on grass, turf

The NFL’s recent rate of non-contact injuries to the knee, ankle and foot is roughly the same on natural and artificial playing surfaces, according to internal data reviewed Tuesday by ESPN. The numbers contradict anecdotal observations this season from a wide swath of players, agents and coaches who have called for the league to convert […]

Coco Gauff, US tennis team ready for Billie Jean Cup Finals in Scotland

Coco Gauff hopes to go out with a stars-and-stripes bang in Glasgow, Scotland before returning to Florida for rest, relaxation and some sun.       

Steelers' Fitzpatrick (appendectomy) set to play

PITTSBURGH — With no injury designation on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ final injury report, Pro Bowl safety Minkah Fitzpatrick is set to play against the Cincinnati Bengals a week after undergoing an appendectomy. “The worry is when they cut you open, they cut through muscle, obviously to get into your stomach,” he said, also telling ESPN […]

'I'm never going to live this down': NFL players share tales of thrill and agony over college rivalries

ASHBURN, Va. — The shirt did not look right on Washington Commanders receiver Terry McLaurin, but a bet’s a bet. He put on Michigan colors. A player reared in scarlet and gray now had to don maize and blue thanks to Ohio State’s loss to the Wolverines last year. Two days after the game, McLaurin […]