Month: April 2020

11:21 AM ET Associated Press WELCOME, N.C. — NASCAR team owner Richard Childress is auctioning off one of racing legend Dale Earnhardt’s cars to raise money for coronavirus relief efforts. The Charlotte Observer reports that this is the first time Childress has sold or given away an original Earnhardt car from his personal collection. A
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9:48 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan Women allrounder Sana Mir has announced her retirement from international cricket, bringing an end to a 15-year career. Mir, who made her international debut in 2005, took 151 wickets in 120 ODIs and 89 wickets in 106 T20Is. Last November, Mir had taken a break from international cricket and
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9:03 AM ET John Keim Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the Redskins for the Washington Examiner and other media outlets since 1994 Authored or co-authored three books on the Redskins and one on the Cleveland Browns Courtney Cronin Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the 49ers, Raiders and Warriors for the San Jose Mercury News. She
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5:19 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Graeme Watson, the former Australia allrounder who was battling cancer, has died at the age of 75. Primarily a middle-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler, he played five Tests from 1967 to 1972 and two ODIs in 1972. After starting his domestic career at Victoria, Watson earned an Australia call-up
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10:11 PM ET NFL Nation staff The 2020 NFL draft is underway. While some teams have found their new franchise quarterback in the draft — including Joe Burrow, Tua Tagovailoa and Justin Herbert — others used their picks on elite playmakers on both sides of the ball. And how about all of those trades? If
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7:08 PM ET South Carolina athletic director Ray Tanner said the regional differences and restrictions during the coronavirus outbreak could make it challenging for conferences to align on when to play the 2020 college football season. Tanner spoke at a university board meeting Friday about the challenges to reach a consensus on the football season.
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7:42 PM ET ESPN News Services PULLMAN, Wash. — The Whitman County coroner says a Washington State football player who was found dead in his apartment last month died of acute intoxication. Coroner Annie Pillers said Friday that 22-year-old Bryce Beekman died after consuming a combination of fentanyl and promethazine. Fentanyl is a powerful pain
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6:38 PM ET Associated Press NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — When Wang Wei-chen had a base hit for the Chinatrust Brothers, no one booed or cheered from the stands at the suburban Taipei ballpark. No one hurled insults at the umpires. And no one yelled the Chinese-language line of encouragement “add oil” to either team.
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6:30 PM ET The SEC broke a record for most first-round picks by a conference in the NFL draft Thursday, beating the previous record of 12 achieved by the ACC and SEC in the past with 15. That type of success often flows into recruiting pitches, showing prospects the proof of development and achieving the
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6:25 PM ET Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Former Grand Slam doubles champion Bob Hewitt was released from prison on parole on Friday after serving nearly four years of a six-year sentence for the rape and sexual assault of girls he coached in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. The three victims
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5:47 PM ET The NBA’s G League players will begin voting Saturday on the creation of a union, sources tell ESPN. The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) is assisting in the formation of a G League-governed union that would need more than 50 percent of the players to sign an electronic authorization card for passage,
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