Month: March 2020

12:45 AM ET In response to the coronavirus outbreak, USC is implementing attendance protocols that will ban fans from home athletic events starting Wednesday and running through March 29. According to the school, events will be limited to the following: participating student-athletes and their families, coaches, officials, other essential personnel as designated by USC Athletics
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10:35 PM ET The NHL’s emergency goalie system has created new celebrities, like 42-year-old former Zamboni driver David Ayres, who was thrust into action last month for the Carolina Hurricanes. Now famous people are signing up to be emergency goalies. Larry Walker, the longtime Colorado Rockies outfielder who was voted into the Baseball Hall of
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When Indira Flack started photographing British racing drivers, she wasn’t sure who – if anyone – would get to see the pictures. Yet now 100 of them can be seen at The Silverstone Experience, which celebrates the past, present and future of British motorsport, and was recently officially opened by the Duke of Sussex and
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6:16 PM ET Nebraska is turning to its football team for some help in the Big Ten basketball tournament. The Cornhuskers have rounded out their roster by adding two football players — quarterback Noah Vedral and offensive tackle Brant Banks — for the conference tourney that begins Wednesday in Indianapolis, coach Fred Hoiberg said. Both
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5:22 PM ET Associated Press CHELTENHAM, England — A crowd of more than 60,000 attended the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival, where more wash basins and hand sanitizer stations were in place to help combat the virus outbreak. The total of 60,664 racegoers on Tuesday was around 7,000 fewer than the record number present
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4:04 PM ET Two NFL teams have proposed the addition of a booth umpire to each officiating crew for the 2020 season, one of seven team-based rule changes that league owners will consider this offseason. None of the proposals have been vetted or endorsed yet by the competition committee, which will meet later this month
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