Month: April 2020

2:06 AM ET As Draymond Green watched the first two parts of “The Last Dance,” the proud forward saw parallels between the end of the Chicago Bulls‘ run with Michael Jordan in the 1990s and the end of the Golden State Warriors run last season with Kevin Durant. “It definitely hit close to home,” Green
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1:26 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” On the day Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told a wide swath of the sport’s staffers that “I fully anticipate baseball will return this season,” more than half the teams in
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11:19 PM ET Associated Press Louisville athletic director Vince Tyra said his department will cut 15% from its sports budgets and furlough staff this week in further economic moves resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. Tyra said furloughs would be announced Wednesday, but he did not specify details to the University of Louisville Athletic Association (ULAA)
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9:13 PM ET New York Rangers forward Chris Kreider offered a positive update on his fractured foot Monday, saying during a videoconference that it’s healing well and noting that he should be ready to play if the NHL season resumes. “My foot feels good,” Kreider said, according to NHL.com. “[My] foot was better a few
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8:00 PM ET Keyshawn Davis took several weeks to choose his path to boxing stardom after the Tokyo Olympics were postponed. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the top professional prospect on the U.S. Olympic qualification team was facing nearly a year without an amateur fight that mattered. He could wait 16 months for his shot
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7:18 PM BST Munster prop James Cronin has been banned for a month after committing an unintentional doping violation due to a mix-up at a pharmacy, European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) said in a statement on Monday. Cronin, 29, tested positive for the steroid prednisolone and corticosteroid prednisone, which are on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s
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6:28 PM ET Wayne Gretzky said he hopes he is the first person to shake Alex Ovechkin‘s hand if Ovechkin breaks his all-time goals record. “I’m rooting for him as hard as anybody,” Gretzky told NBC Sports on Monday, in his first joint interview with Ovechkin. “I think it will be a great, wonderful day
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6:38 PM ET The UFC’s planned return to action May 9 will have to be without one of its top champions. Amanda Nunes will not be defending her UFC’s women’s featherweight title against Felicia Spencer in the planned card, her agent, Dan Lambert, confirmed to ESPN. Nunes first mentioned the news to CBS Sports in
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5:30 PM ET UFC fighter Lyman Good tested positive for the coronavirus last month, he told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a video interview Monday. He is the first UFC athlete to publicly acknowledge having tested positive for the virus. Good, 34, said he is now feeling “100%” and is in full recovery. The New Jersey
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4:23 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos president of football operations/general manager John Elway called the staff of his team’s IT department “heroes” in the run-up to this week’s draft and said he expects any problems when the picks are officially made to be minimal. Elway and representatives from every other team went through
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