Sep 24, 2025, 04:57 PM ET The last time LSU and Alabama went an entire season without playing each other, Tigers coach Brian Kelly was a toddler and Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer wouldn’t be born for another 11 years. During six-plus decades, that annual matchup has had some intense, dramatic moments, such as Kelly’s…
Andreas HaleSep 23, 2025, 07:40 AM ET Close Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining…
Pamela MaldonadoSep 23, 2025, 06:55 AM ET Close Pamela Maldonado is a sports betting analyst for ESPN. Every week, the Heisman and national title odds boards tell a story. Some names surge on box score brilliance, others climb because their teams keep winning, and a few slip because cracks start to show. The lines react…
The 12-team College Football Playoff has significantly broadened the pool of candidates to include any team that has a chance to win its conference — and that makes every FBS race matter longer, as the selection committee’s five highest-ranked conference champions are guaranteed spots in the playoff. Heading into the final Saturday of September, the…
Kevin PeltonSep 23, 2025, 07:15 AM ET Close Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system This year’s NBA Rank features massive turnover from 12 months ago. A full 25 of our top 100 players weren’t ranked a year ago, the biggest turnover from one…
Sep 23, 2025, 06:58 AM ET Cooper Flagg is the rookie everybody is talking about this season, and expectations are sky high for Dallas’ versatile forward after one standout season at Duke. But will the production match the hype for the talented 18-year-old? We asked our fantasy basketball experts André Snellings, Eric Moody, Eric Karabell,…
Sep 23, 2025, 07:08 AM ET NBA Rank is back and ready to count down the best players in the league for the 2025-26 season. Which players made the top 100 this year and who missed the mark? From Sixth Man of the Year Candidates like Naz Reid and Alex Caruso to surprising sophomores, players…
Alden GonzalezSep 23, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. The hardest-thrown pitch of Shohei Ohtani‘s career came on the day his team might have least expected it. It was June 28 in Kansas…
Bradford DoolittleSep 23, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close MLB writer and analyst for ESPN.com Former NBA writer and analyst for ESPN.com Been with ESPN since 2013 Which playoff team most needs to win the World Series? This is a question we try to answer around this time every year. What builds the pressure to win…
With another two months until votes for the Most Valuable Players, Cy Young Award winners and Rookies of the Year are revealed, now seems the perfect time for a far wider-ranging set of honors for Major League Baseball’s 2025 season. The third annual Passan Awards aim to celebrate the most enjoyable elements of a season…
