Field YatesDec 10, 2025, 06:15 AM ET Close Field Yates is a fantasy football expert and NFL draft analyst for ESPN. You can find him on Fantasy Football Now on Sunday mornings and regularly on NFL Live throughout the week, as well as the Fantasy Focus and First Draft podcasts. A graduate of Wesleyan University (CT) and native of Weston, Mass., Yates has previous experience interning with the New England Patriots on both their coaching and scouting…

Dan HajduckyDec 11, 2025, 01:34 PM ET Close Dan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. Open Extended Reactions A 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Emblems of Endorsements card of Kobe Bryant recently sold for $1.22 million, including buyer’s premium, with Goldin Auctions. It’s the third-highest public sale for a solo Bryant card…

Adam RittenbergDec 11, 2025, 06:48 PM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Coastal Carolina hired Missouri State‘s Ryan Beard as the Chanticleers’ next head football coach, it was announced Thursday. Beard, 36, guided Missouri State in its transition from FCS to FBS, going 19-16 overall. The Bears entered FBS this fall and went 7-5, earning an invitation to the Xbox Bowl against Arkansas State on Dec. 18.…

Jeff KassoufDec 11, 2025, 09:28 PM ET Close Jeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics. Open Extended Reactions The NWSL’s Board of Governors has approved a new roster mechanism to pay select star players above and beyond the current salary cap, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN. The proposed…

Andreas HaleDec 11, 2025, 08:13 PM ET Close Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including…