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As the Mariners have sagged out of the brief fever-dream of playoff contention, I have steeled myself for a barrage of losses while willing them to crawl back inside the Top 10 for draft picks. I don’t know enough about the class yet to know what number will be the cutoff between elite and merely…

Kevin Harvick – winner: “We had just a really, really good Busch Light Ford Mustang tonight. I got it a little dinged up with 50 or 60 laps to go. I knocked a hole in the nose and made it a little too tight through the center of the corner, but turned into a heck…

We’ve reached the home stretch of Major League Baseball’s 60-game season and there’s a lot left to sort out. Every day between now and the start of the postseason we’ll keep you updated on all the latest developments.The Minnesota Twins have punched their ticket to the postseason. With Saturday’s 8-1 victory against the Chicago Cubs, the…

playSpears: Saquon is due for bounce-back week vs. Bears (0:54)While Ryan Clark chooses the Bears over the Giants, Marcus Spears takes Big Blue and expects Saquon Barkley to have a major impact. (0:54)1:32 AM ETJeff DickersonESPN Staff Writer CloseDickerson covers the Chicago Bears for ESPN’s NFL Nation. He is the co-host of “Dickerson & Hood”…

We went a whole year without a UCF undefeated national champion squabble. Everyone ready to resume?The Knights got the argument started emphatically in Atlanta Saturday, blitzing Georgia Tech 49-21 in their season opener. This was exactly the kind of victory a non-Power 5 program needs and which will be in rare supply in 2020, with…

The Twins’ offense showed up big on Saturday night. More importantly, it did it with not just homers, but also with a big inning and the timely knocks that have eluded this offense all too often against good competition toward the end of the regular season. That is a promising The Twins’ offense showed up…

It took a pair of losses and a lot of frustration boiling over, but something finally clicked for the Boston Celtics on Saturday night.After falling into a 2-0 hole, the Celtics grabbed a dominant 117-106 win over the Miami Heat in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals at Walt Disney World.“This is a really…

The only drama past the first quarter in 52-0 win by the Notre Dame Fighting Irish over the South Florida Bulls was whether or not there would be a shutout. Even against bad teams, shutouts just don’t happen all of the time. They’re rare, and should be cherished. This is the 4th shutout at Notre…

5:24 PM ETChris LowESPN Senior Writer Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of TennesseeAfter some moving and shaking, the Big Ten rejoined college football’s party, which means the ESPN power rankings look a little different this week.Ohio State vaults right into the No. 2 spot, and if the Buckeyes…

If the Boston Celtics were going to go down 3-0 in the Eastern Conference finals, it wasn’t going to be because they let the Miami Heat dictate the terms of engagement. Three and a half minutes into Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday, they’d scored at the rim three times. By the…