As Laurie Orlando, ESPN’s senior vice president of talent development and planning, told me last year, “This is a halfway house for coaches. We build up relationships, and we have better access when they go back to coaching. And they’ll come back to us again if they had a good ex...
He has great arm strength and mobility to create on the go, and he is poised and aggressive as a passer and runner. Maye is also excellent under pressure and has proved he can carry a roster lacking in elite talent at core positions. He threw for 3,608 yards,...
Tennessee's Nico Iamaleava has elite arm talent and showed some real toughness last season. Now, in his third season on campus and pulling in a reported $8 million in NIL money, it's time for him to go from being solid to being a difference-maker in a Tennessee offense that ...
to himself and everyone else, that he was cut from the basketball team by a coach who doubted his talent. Turns out, he wasn't really cut at all. No, he didn't make the team. But according to a famous Sports Illustrated
field. The players and fans were in Nate's corner because he was a bundle of energy on the bench. During timeouts, he'd tell the starters, "You're not playing well … pick it up … run out on the 3-point shots … I've got half the talent you do, and you're playing like ...
There was just one problem with all of it: Florence wasn't pregnant. She'd simply assure Al that she'd soon be having a baby girl, and that this girl would be an extraordinary singer, the one talent Florence wished she'd had. It seemed curious and presumptuous not to buy a single ...
The King of Crenshaw is a four-part podcast series that will focus on how the late Nipsey Hussles life, death, and legacy deeply impacted the sports world. This series aims to examine how that overlap of Black male creativity, talent, and ambition will forever live on in Nipseys respon...
Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland walked away with the No. 1 spot inESPN's list of male players, but who makes the grade as the best female talent aged 21 or under? Picking the list for its first year is ESPN editorKathleen McNameewith the help ofTor-Kristian Karlsen, who has wo...
Meanwhile, Tampa is having a beauty season despite the many draft choices the Bucs surrendered to sign Hooters-loving Jon "I Was A Teenaged Coach" Gruden. Why didn't this transaction wipe out City of Tampa from a talent standpoint? To understand why, we must "discount to present value."...
Yet might Murray, a two-time Grand Slam champ who has happened to be unfortunate enough to be parading his rare talent at the same time as three of the best players ever, even be considered the U.K.'s finest sportsman of all? His single-handed annexation of the Davis Cup for Great ...