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The St. Louis Cardinals season is a lost cause. With 12 games remaining on the schedule, they are seven games back of the final National League Wild Card spot and are officially eliminated from NL Central contention. This season, it was the offense that proved to be the fatal flaw of the Cardinals, and it’s

Marc Raimondi Tim McManus Close Tim McManus ESPN Staff Writer Tim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine’s Birds 24/7, a site he helped create, since 2010. You can follow him on Twitter @Tim_McManus. Sep 16, 2024, 11:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions

Two of the NFC’s playoff hopefuls, the Falcons and Eagles, are set to meet under the spotlight of a “Monday Night Football” matchup in Week 2.  The 2024 season started in opposite directions for Atlanta and Philadelphia; while the Falcons dropped a low-scoring contest to the Steelers in QB Kirk Cousins’ first game in his

ESPN News Services Sep 16, 2024, 09:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Kansas City Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco is expected to land on injured reserve after suffering a fibula injury during Sunday’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday. Pacheco underwent X-rays on Sunday night and will undergo an

An NFC battle of the Birds awaits us on Monday Night Football when Jalen Hurts and the Eagles play host to Bijan Robinson and the Falcons. The Sporting News has optimal DFS lineups for this primetime clash, and the studs, sleepers, and strategies to help you make some daily fantasy cash.  A.J. Brown has been

Katherine Terrell, ESPN Staff WriterSep 15, 2024, 04:12 PM ET Close Katherine Terrell came back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left the company in 2019 after joining in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a graduate of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native,

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is reportedly not planning to retire from the NFL. In the wake of his Thursday night concussion in the Week 2 game against the Buffalo Bills, the third of his NFL career, some NFL analysts thought he should and would call it a career. Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel discouraged

Sep 6, 2024, 07:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Sean O’Malley makes the second defense of his UFC men’s bantamweight championship against Merab Dvalishvili in the main event of two-title-fight UFC 306 on Saturday, Sept. 14, in Las Vegas. The event, which the fight promotion is billing as Noche UFC becauase it falls on Mexican

It is being dubbed “the greatest live sporting event of all time” and when the first bell rings at The Sphere in Las Vegas, UFC 306 will look to deliver. The event honoring Mexican Independence Day takes place on September 14 and will air on ESPN+ PPV in the U.S. The main event sees Sean

Michael Voepel, ESPN Senior WriterSep 13, 2024, 10:21 PM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Open Extended Reactions WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert promised Friday that she and the

Billy Napier and his Florida football program have fans feeling the blues. Once the cream of the crop among college football programs, the Gators have fallen well off the pace of some of its contemporaries, struggling to mount much of an offense on an SEC championship, let alone compete for a national title. Napier isn’t

Anthony Olivieri, ESPN.comSep 13, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SITTING IN THE visitors’ locker room after Game 6 of the 1988 NBA Finals, Detroit Pistons guard Isiah Thomas knew his badly injured ankle needed treatment. But the Los Angeles Lakers, who had just beaten the Pistons by a point, wouldn’t help. Not even

It wasn’t so long ago that concussions weren’t a big talking point in the NFL. Players who were hit hard were sent back into the game, and post-playing-days issues were attributed to factors outside the sport. In today’s NFL, they are taken far more seriously. Players who are hit hard or appear to have any

Alaina Getzenberg Close Alaina Getzenberg ESPN Alaina Getzenberg is a staff writer who covers the Buffalo Bills and the NFL. She joined ESPN in 2021. Alaina was previously a beat reporter for the Charlotte Observer and has also worked for CBS Sports and the Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of the University of

The Los Angeles Lakers struck out on numerous big names this offseason, but there’s still at least one option on the table that hasn’t been ruled out. It’s no secret Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka has been on the hunt for potential moves to bolster his roster ahead of next season. Los Angeles could look

Alexa Philippou, ESPNSep 11, 2024, 08:22 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 Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — Toward the end of

The NFL started tracking ball-carrier top speeds through its “Next Gen Stats” feature in 2018. Since then, it has become a fun task to check in and see who the fastest players were each week throughout the season. When known speedsters like Dolphins star Tyreek Hill or Chiefs rookie Xavier Worthy break off a big

Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterSep 11, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Covers college football. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Open Extended Reactions AUTZEN STADIUM WAS in a state of pandemonium Saturday night after Oregon‘s Noah Whittington bolted 100 yards on a kickoff return for what was presumed to be a game-tying, fourth-quarter