Bill ConnellyJan 16, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019. The 2025 college football season was odd from the start. Texas quarterback Arch Manning began the season as the least statistically proven Heisman favorite of all…
Ryan O’HanlonJan 16, 2026, 06:59 AM ET Close Ryan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.” Last year, it wasn’t great. Now, when I first started trying to rank the prospects of America’s top, um, prospects a couple years back, it was…
Brooke Pryor Close Brooke Pryor ESPN Staff Writer Brooke Pryor is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN who has covered the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2019. She previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and the University of Oklahoma for The Oklahoman. Jeremy Fowler Close Jeremy Fowler senior NFL national reporter…
Courtney CroninJan 16, 2026, 06:06 AM ET Close Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever and GameNight on ESPN Radio. She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast on…
Lori CarnochanDumfries and Galloway reporter BBC The Johnstone family say if they cannot find a way to make their milk production profitable, then they will be forced to sell their farm When Adam and Lucy Johnstone took over a dairy farm in the south-west of Scotland two years ago, they were able to make a…
As armedfederal agentsroam the streets of American cities and amidthreatsto declare the Insurrection Act and use military force to quellprotestsin Minneapolis, PresidentDonald Trumpsaid once again that the next elections should be canceled because he expects his party to lose. “It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,”…
The US Navy is betting that a new modular, multi-mission missile can stretch shrinking magazines and blunt China’s missile advantage in a Taiwan fight—but critics warn that unless it is cheap and mass-produced, versatility alone may not be enough to change the outcome. This month, Naval News reported that the US Navy is developing a…
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukraine was running out of options to strike a deal to end almost four years of war with Russia, as thousands were without heating in Kyiv in -12 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit) temperatures following waves of Russian strikes on the country’s energy grid. Moscow has not backed down…
As discussions progress between Armenia and the United States on the technical design and cooperative implementation of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP), Iran has said that it views the project as the functional successor to the earlier “Zangezur corridor,” and as a US-backed encroachment in Armenia’s Syunik border region. Since late…
Singer Julio Iglesias has denied allegations of sexual assault made by two female former employees. The women allege that the 82-year-old Spanish superstar “normalised abuse” in a coercive, threatening and violent environment while they were working at his properties in the Bahamas and Dominican Republic. Responding on Instagram, Iglesias said: “I deny having abused, coerced,…
