Month: March 2020

10:55 AM BST The European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) on Tuesday postponed the semifinal and final of this season’s Champions Cup and Challenge Cup tournaments due to the coronavirus pandemic. Quarterfinal fixtures of both tournaments from April 3-5 were already postponed last week. The organisers have now added the finales of the competitions, which had
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9:01 AM ET Associated Press The Tokyo Olympics have been officially postponed until 2021. The International Olympic Committee along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and local organizers have decided that the Tokyo Games cannot go ahead as scheduled this year because of the coronavirus outbreak. The IOC says the games will be held “not
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7:50 AM ET On March 7, Kendall Coyne Schofield was eating breakfast in Tempe, Arizona — in town for the final stop of the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association’s Dream Gap Tour — when she got word that the IIHF Women’s World Championships were canceled. “Initially, we were heartbroken,” Coyne Schofield said. “But with it
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1:11 AM ET The NFL Physicians Society is discontinuing physicals for players amid the coronavirus pandemic, the group told both the league and its players’ association, according to a letter obtained by NFL Network. The decision will likely affect free agents who are awaiting physicals to officially sign contracts with new teams, as well as
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12:12 AM ET Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton has made steady progress this month with his strained right calf injury, New York manager Aaron Boone said Monday. In an interview on the YES Network, Boone spoke about Stanton’s road back from a Grade 1 strain, diagnosed last month, saying “if we were ready to start spring
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