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Rodgers previously told the media and his team that he was "immunized," and has undergone other treatments that did not include the vaccine. So QB Jordan Love will see his first NFL start against a Chiefs team that seems beleaguered by turnovers and bad defense. And, the New Orleans Saints are dealing with two massive injuries to QB Jameis Winston and WR Michael Thomas.
At age 24, Booker is the only active NBA player with a 70 point game, and his dominating eight game stretch in the NBA Bubble this summer earned him a reputation as one of the league's premiere scorers. Then, a close read of Tom Brady's Instagram as he basked in his reaffirmed G.O.A.T status. Tonight James Harden enters his former basketball home, Houston's Toyota Center, as a member of the Brooklyn Nets. It's his first time facing the Rockets since his very messy trade in January. He's notched seven triple doubles in their recent eight-game winning streak.
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Major League Baseball's crackdown is underway on pitchers using foreign substances for better grip. ESPN MLB Insider Jeff Passan explains why we're seeing players being undressed by umpires as they come off the field . Questions remain about how smart a move this was to make in the middle of the season, and if it is having the effect that MLB wants. Then, Sarah reflects on Bobby Bonilla Day, and a Yankees bat girl who finally saw her dream came true, 60 years after writing a letter to the team.
The most decorated gymnast of all time has sealed her position on the U.S. Olympic roster for the second straight games, and will travel to Tokyo with a scary good team. ESPN's Alyssa Roenigk shares what she saw at the Olympic trials, and breaks down the moves that make Biles legendary.
A decade after the deadly assault of Jyoti Singh, has safety for women in India improved?
ESPN's Kevin Arnovitz joins the show to discuss these standout performances from the first round of the NBA playoffs. Social media has given national audiences a front row seat to high school basketball players like never before. Instagram accounts belonging to UConn recruit Paige Bueckers and California's Kyree Walker have reached half-a-million followers and climbing. Then there's LaMelo Ball and Bronny James (LeBron's son) who've used the hype surrounding their families, plus their own on-court highlights to propel their follower counts to over 5 million. But behind the scenes, coaches are concerned that the appeal of social media fame is warping how players approach the game. Scouts and recruiters are wondering if the skills actually match the hype.
Pretty much all of the big moves are in the books for the NFL offseason. DeAndre Hopkins' trade to the Arizona Cardinals continues to baffle fans and experts. Teams like Carolina and Jacksonville seem to be starting their rebuilds.
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While pro leagues around the US are getting back to play, college football leaders are taking several different approaches to the risk of COVID-19. Some schools and conferences have already cancelled fall sports altogether, while others have announced they're limiting games to in-conference opponents. And there are some conferences, big ones like the SEC, which have yet to make a decision on how or whether to have a fall 2020 college football season. ESPN's college football reporter Heather Dinich walks Pablo Torre through the gamut of options and why there's such a patchwork of possibilities, including the scenario of a spring 2021 season. Then Emily Applegate, former employee of the Washington football team, discusses her experiences of harassment within the organization after being named in last week's Washington Post article.
But screaming fans and high-stakes moments are exactly what makes sports so compelling. Week 11 in the NFL had the makings of a snoozefest...until the Chargers and Chiefs battled it out on Sunday night, with the Chiefs pulling off yet another last-second comeback. Just a week after putting the NFL on notice with a win over the Bills in the game of the year, the Vikings got embarrassed at home by the Dallas Cowboys. And amid all the outrage over the Colts' hiring of Jeff Saturday as their interim head coach...prompted us to think, what actually makes someone qualified to be a head coach anyway? We brought in Alex Smith for another edition of QB Confidential, so he could help us make sense of all of this.
Also, Jeremy Schaap offers a remembrance of legendary NBA Commissioner David Stern. The 49ers' Kyle Shanahan is making his first Super Bowl appearance as a head coach. But he's been to the big game before, as the Falcons offensive coordinator when Atlanta infamously lost a 28-3 lead to a Patriots comeback.
The fake league reportedly broadcast their matches on the internet, and purported to be legitimate matches from the Indian Premier League, the most lucrative cricket league in the world. To anyone with a passing familiarity with the game, it should have been obvious that something wasn't right - because the actual IPL had concluded their season weeks earlier. But the target of the scam, according to police, were online bettors from countries like Russia, without a strong cricket tradition.
In football-obsessed Oxford, Mississippi, Nacoma James was a beloved high school football coach and math teacher at Lafayette High School. James' widow Laticia supports the team, even as she struggles to find her way back to social life in a town centered on the sport. ESPN's Elizabeth Merrill shares the story of James' life and untimely death at age 42, and weighs the community's pain over his loss, alongside the risk of the pandemic and a deep love of football.
In a re-spin of one of our favorite episodes, Pablo Torre asks Mina about her journey to Korea to investigate how bat flipping became part of their game, tied to the bigger history of the sport abroad. Through three NFL Sundays only a handful of teams remain undefeated. Russell Wilson led the 3-0 Seahawks to a thrilling win over Dak and the Cowboys. The 3-0 Bills blew a 28-3 lead, but Josh Allen's 4th quarter heroics secured the victory for Buffalo. Meanwhile, the 3-0 Bears scored three touchdowns in the 4th, coming from behind to beat the Falcons. Bill Barnwell compares the league's leaders, and previews tonight's Chiefs-Ravens game.
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