Новости за 26.12.2018

The Warriors showed on Christmas just how much they care about the regular season, while the Bucks keep on winning.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic's new boss has a pretty nice resume.

Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota said on Wednesday morning that he’d do everything in his power to play against the Colts on Sunday night, but the stinger that knocked him out of last weekend’s game didn’t allow him to do anything on the field Wednesday. Mariota did not take part in Tennessee’s first practice of the [more]

The Panthers put Taylor Heinicke on injured reserve Wednesday, which opened the door for undrafted rookie Kyle Allen to make his first NFL start a week after Heinicke made his starting debut as a professional. Head coach Ron Rivera confirmed at his press conference that Allen will get the start against the Saints. He went [more]

America's oldest operating motor speedway will host its first major race since 2015.

Heads are apparently about to roll in Washington, beyond D.J. Swearinger or anyone else on the football side of the operation. According to Craig Hoffman of 106.7 The Fan, there’s a “major shakeup” coming in the front office there, with multiple top executives on the way out. The jobs are on the business side of [more]

Safety D.J. Swearinger moved to Arizona via a waiver claim on Christmas Day and Washington head coach Jay Gruden expanded on the decision to part ways with the outspoken veteran at his Wednesday press conference. Gruden pointed to “repeated offenses” from Swearinger sharing negative views about the organization to the media as the impetus for [more]

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says he wants to play in 2019. Patriots coach Bill Belichick doesn’t want to think about that, or anything beyond the next game. As usual. “Yeah, well, I mean, right now I think it’s a one-game season here,” Belichick told reporters on Wednesday when asked about Brady’s comments. “So, we’ll just [more]

Carson Wentz again is watching from the sideline as Nick Foles does what Nick Foles does. Foles has led the Eagles to back-to-back wins over the Rams and Texans since Wentz injured his back to keep Philadelphia’s postseason hopes alive. He is 3-1 this season after going 5-1 last season, including three postseason wins and [more]

Panthers tight end Greg Olsen said earlier this month that he’s on his way to a full recovery after his second foot surgery in as many years and he discussed his playing future with reporters at the team’s facility on Wednesday. Olsen said he should be healed in three or four months and expressed confidence [more]

Arsenal has 38 points and sits third, but can be passed by Chelsea at Watford.

The 49ers announced they promoted receiver Steven Dunbar Jr. from the practice squad Wednesday. Dunbar has spent the season on the team’s practice squad. The 49ers signed him as an undrafted free agent April 30. They waived him out of the preseason. He appeared in 51 games during four seasons at the University of Houston, [more]

Colts head coach Frank Reich said at his Wednesday press conference that he hoped tight end Eric Ebron would be a limited participant in practice later that day, but Ebron dashed that hope a short time later. Ebron said, via Zak Keefer of the Indianapolis Star, that he will not practice on Wednesday. Ebron suffered [more]

Eden Hazard is again back atop the attack for Chelsea, who is coming off a second loss in four matches.

Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield was seen staring down Hue Jackson, the former Browns head coach turned Bengals assistant, during Sunday’s game. After initially saying he hadn’t done any such thing, Mayfield is now owning up to it — and telling anyone who doesn’t like it that’s too bad. “You’re supposed to play with emotion,” Mayfield [more]

He likely will miss a few games but not an extended period of time.

Terrell Suggs is scheduled to become a free agent in the offseason and likely tests the market for the first time. The Ravens linebacker, though, is not thinking he could play his final regular-season game for the team Sunday. “Nah, there’s a lot of things that are always a possibility,” Suggs said Wednesday, via Jamison [more]

Don't even try to tell Pochettino that Spurs are title contenders.

Christmas Eve plus a game between two non-playoff teams equals bad ratings. How bad? Broncos-Raiders generated an all-time low for Monday Night Football. According to Austin Karp of SportsBusiness Journal, the 5.4 rating came in five percent lower than the previous record low for the prime-time Monday package. That number, a 5.7, came in 2016, [more]

The black No. 4 car will debut March 17 at Auto Club Speedway.

The quarterback viewed by many as the top prospect in the 2019 NFL draft will actually wait until the 2020 NFL draft. Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert announced today that he has decided to stay in school for his final year of NCAA eligibility. “The University of Oregon has been a special place to me for [more]

Solskjaer: "It’s humbling knowing I’m leading this team out. Let’s see if I get used to it."

Liverpool and Spurs "are better than us at the moment," Guardiola admitted.

The Chiefs are gradually getting healthier in time for the playoffs. Via Brooke Pryor of the Kansas City Star, right guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif returned to practice today, which starts the 21-day window for him to return from injured reserve. Duvernay-Tardif broke his left fibula in early October, putting the guy with the medical degree under the [more]

Jim Harbaugh has said he’s still going to be the Michigan coach. And Nick Saban once said he’s not going to be the Alabama coach. So we know to never take prominent denials at face value. From anyone. Coaches routinely tell something other than the truth for strategic reasons, and teams do, too. Harbaugh made [more]