Oct 25, 2025, 12:50 AM ET Toronto Blue Jays fans let Shohei Ohtani hear it before and during Game 1 of the World Series, their disapproval of him not picking their team in free agency in 2023 clearly still evident Friday night at Rogers Centre. Before signing a 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los…
Brett OkamotoOct 24, 2025, 08:18 AM ET Close Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather,…
Bill ConnellyOct 24, 2025, 07:30 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019. In recent years, Week 9 of the college football season has been good at shutting down fun upstart stories — or at least severely wounding them….
MULTAN (Sports Desk) Pakistani cricketer Sohaib Maqsood has recovered his car nine months after falling victim to a major fraud, expressing gratitude to Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi for their intervention. In a statement on X (formerly Twitter), Maqsood wrote, “I want to thank Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and Minister…
Matt BowenOct 24, 2025, 07:46 AM ET Close Matt Bowen is a fantasy football and NFL writer for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2015, writes regularly for ESPN+ and spent multiple years on “NFL Matchup.” After graduating from the University of Iowa, Matt played safety in the NFL for St. Louis, Green Bay, Washington and…
MICHAEL JOHNSON WAS trying to find a way home. In 2019, Johnson was the executive chef of the Seattle Seahawks, but he wanted to get back to Baton Rouge, where his children and their mother lived. One late night, Johnson dove into a job search that yielded a surprising result. “I googled ‘executive chef Baton…
SAN FRANCISCO — Aaron Gordon‘s 10th and final made 3 on Thursday night at Chase Center felt like the final dagger. It came with 26 seconds left in regulation, putting the visiting Denver Nuggets up by three and punctuating a career night for the 12th-year forward. But the biggest perimeter fireworks show in Gordon’s life…
Jamal CollierOct 24, 2025, 02:32 AM ET Close Jamal Collier is an NBA reporter at ESPN. Collier covers the Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Bulls and the Midwest region of the NBA, including stories such as Minnesota’s iconic jersey swap between Anthony Edwards and Justin Jefferson. He has been at ESPN since Sept. 2021 and previously covered…
Ben BabyOct 23, 2025, 05:13 PM ET Close Ben Baby covers the Cincinnati Bengals for ESPN. He joined the company in July 2019. Prior to ESPN, he worked for various newspapers in Texas, most recently at The Dallas Morning News where he covered college sports. He provides daily coverage of the Bengals for ESPN.com, while…
Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Oct 23, 2025, 06:12 PM ET The Southeastern Conference has suspended longtime referee Ken Williamson for the remainder of the season in the wake of his crew’s performance in Georgia‘s…
