David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterOct 13, 2024, 02:43 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Change can be scary. It’s easy to look around at the college football landscape in 2024 — realignment, playoff expansion, NIL, the portal, lawsuits, Michigan’s offense — and think the whole…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterOct 6, 2024, 02:55 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. If we are, as some scientists have hypothesized, living in a multiverse in which all possible outcomes occur along some timeline, then we can still rest easy knowing that our lives…
NFL Nation, ESPNSep 29, 2024, 11:37 PM ET Week 4 of the 2024 NFL season started Thursday night with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the New York Giants. On Sunday, Atlanta Falcons kicker Younghoe Koo nailed a 58-yard, game-winning field goal to down the New Orleans Saints. The Indianapolis Colts handed the Pittsburgh Steelers their first…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterSep 29, 2024, 01:43 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. The king is dead. Long live the king. Also, that king is probably not entirely dead, which is either the fun or the flaw of a 12-team playoff. It’d be easy…
Sep 23, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Week 4 is in the books as we look back at surprising performances and key storylines from this weekend’s games. No. 1 Texas remained on top in the rankings with backup quarterback Arch Manning getting his first career start. As injuries affect multiple top-ranked teams this season, it shows…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterSep 22, 2024, 01:51 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. With 40 seconds left, the world was unrecognizable. There was Michigan, the defending national champs, battered and bruised and teetering on the brink of a second loss in four weeks to…
NFL Nation, ESPNSep 15, 2024, 11:38 PM ET Week 2 of the NFL season began Thursday night with a Buffalo Bills blowout win over the Miami Dolphins. Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa left the game in the third quarter with a concussion. On Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers tamed the Detroit Lions, and the New Orleans…
NFL Nation, ESPNSep 9, 2024, 12:14 AM ET The 2024 NFL season is here, and Week 1 has been wild. In the early window, rookie quarterback Caleb Williams won his NFL debut, Jerod Mayo and Mike Macdonald earned their first wins as head coaches and Sam Darnold and the Minnesota Vikings shut down the New…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterSep 8, 2024, 01:51 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. The best upsets are the ones no one sees coming. Northern Illinois’ stunning defeat of Notre Dame certainly fits the bill. Just a week ago, the Irish looked like a surefire…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterAug 31, 2024, 11:40 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Welcome to the season of change. It’s 2024, and if we’re to believe the punditry, this will be unlike anything we’ve seen before in college football, which is saying something in…
