Month: April 2020

9:00 PM ET Associated Press San Jose Sharks general manager Doug Wilson isn’t ready to remove the interim head coach tag from Bob Boughner‘s title yet. Noting the Sharks’ season is not officially over with the NHL on hiatus due to the coronavirus, Wilson voiced his support by saying Boughner has the edge in taking
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7:05 PM ET Former North Dakota State linebacker and two-time FCS All-American Jabril Cox has committed to transfer to LSU. Cox, who made the announcement on his Twitter page on Thursday afternoon, is a graduate transfer and will be immediately eligible to play. Here we Geaux!!📍🐯 pic.twitter.com/p2Q47VW8d6 — Jabril Cox (@_Brillo) April 2, 2020 The
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7:32 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — There was a horse fatality Thursday at Santa Anita, which is temporarily closed for live racing because of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s the seventh death at the track since December. According to the California Horse Racing Board website, a 2-year-old filly named Smiling Ali died. She had
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5:49 PM ET ESPN News Services The Ottawa Senators are making temporary layoffs and salary reductions because of COVID-19. The team’s parent company says the full-time workforce will be reduced starting Sunday, when the NHL club’s season was originally scheduled to end. Those not laid off could be placed on furlough. Others could have their
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5:58 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR has delayed the debut of its next generation stock car that was scheduled to hit the track next season. The car will now be delayed until 2022 because the coronavirus pandemic has slowed development. “Due to challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic, the debut of the Next Gen car
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Apr 8, 2020 There’s no doubt 2019 will go down as the year of the transfer in college football. The transfer portal dominated discussion around the sport, along with the debate about immediate-eligibility waivers; the approval of high-profile, non-graduate transfers to play right away; and a playoff field featuring three transfer quarterbacks, including Heisman Trophy
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4:08 PM ET Mississippi State coach Mike Leach apologized Thursday for a since-deleted tweet that showed a meme of a woman knitting her husband a noose during quarantine. Leach removed the tweet, which was posted Wednesday night, and had the caption, “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a
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8:00 AM ET Two years ago, the 10-team Sun Belt Conference broke into two divisions. This was a semi-pointless exercise considering each team plays eight of nine conference opponents every year, which nearly ruins the point of an inter-division rotation. It was also a bit unfair to the teams in the Sun Belt East —
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9:45 PM GMT Warwickshire have donated their Edgbaston stadium for the use of the NHS in a bid to help in the battle against COVID-19. The ground – more specifically, the car park – will be used as a drive-through testing centre for NHS staff. Those requiring tests will drive in through the Edgbaston Road
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3:30 PM ET UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko said she hopes to be back “sometime in August” from the leg surgery she underwent a week and a half ago. “I was hoping [the injury] would heal by itself, but when it started to frustrate me a little bit, doctors advised me to have surgery,”
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3:13 PM ET The California State Athletic Commission has canceled all combat sports events in the state through May, according to an announcement Thursday from the state’s Department of Consumer Affairs. The measure was taken due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The Commission didn’t take this decision lightly and understands the potential economic loss to promoters
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2:59 PM BST Newcastle Falcons’ promotion back to the Gallagher Premiership has been confirmed with Saracens relegated to England’s second tier. The Falcons are at the top of the Championship, 18 points clear of second-placed Ealing, and following the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) decision to call off the rest of the 2019-20 season due to
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