November 19, 2025, 12:40 PM ET The top seeded teams for the 5 December World Cup tournament draw include: Germany but no croatiaThey were determined on Wednesday when FIFA published the new rankings the day after the four continents completed qualifying. co-host of United States of America, Canada And Mexico The top-ranked No. 1 seeds…
Tim MacMahonNov 19, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM THE DALLAS MAVERICKS, mired in the misery of a four-game losing streak amid the chaos that had overwhelmed the franchise for the past nine months, sat on the…
Nov 19, 2025, 08:00 AM ET On Saturday morning, Islam Makhachev woke up as No. 2 on the ESPN men’s pound-for-pound rankings. Valentina Shevchenko was No. 2 on our women’s list. By the end of the day, both had ascended to No. 1 after dominant victories at UFC 322. Their days were not totally parallel,…
Michael VoppelNovember 19, 2025, 07:25 am ET to close Michael Voeppel is a senior writer covering the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voeppel began covering women’s basketball in 1984 and has been with ESPN since 1996. Let’s congratulate the Big 12 in this edition of ESPN’s women’s basketball power rankings for two…
ben babyNovember 19, 2025, 05:08 PM ET to close Ben Baby covers the Cincinnati Bengals for ESPN. He joined the company in July 2019. Before 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…
Pamela MaldonadoNovember 18, 2025, 10:35 PM ET to close Pamela Maldonado is a sports betting analyst for ESPN. can we talk North Texas For a minute? Week 3 of the playoff rankings have been released and the strangest thing is that North Texas is at -115 both ways to make or miss the playoffs… while…
Mark SchlabachNov 19, 2025, 02:15 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia OXFORD, Miss. — Before sunrise on Tuesday morning, barely a day after Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin set the college football world ablaze with reports that members of his family…
Dan WetzelNovember 19, 2025, 07:00 am ET to close Dan Wetzel is a senior writer focusing on investigative reporting, news analysis and feature storytelling. If Lane Kiffin Quit His Job He Will Always Regret It ole miss Team. If he decides to take another job — Florida or LSU — while he’s on the verge…
Dave McMenaminNov 19, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. While the Los Angeles Lakers spent last week crisscrossing the country, with 10 days on the road from Atlanta,…
November 19, 2025, 07:00 am ET Inspirational Thoughts of the Week: Have you ever felt like you were already buried deep?There is screaming six feet below, but no one can hear anythingDid you know there’s still a chance for you?‘Cause there’s a spark inside youyou just have to turn on the lightand let it shinejust…
