Month: April 2020

10:58 PM ET Former Michigan wide receiver Tarik Black intends to transfer to Texas, he announced Tuesday night. Black published an Instagram post with a picture of him in a Texas uniform and the caption, “i just flipped the switch,, flip flip #HookEm.” He entered the NCAA’s transfer portal in December and is on track
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9:52 PM ET Treatments for forward Oskar Lindblom‘s cancer “have gone as well or better than we could have expected,” Philadelphia Flyers assistant general manager Brent Flahr told reporters Tuesday. Lindblom, 23, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer, in December. He has been undergoing care at the Hospital of the
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8:23 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Kentucky Derby-winning trainers Bob Baffert and Doug O’Neill joined horse racing advocates rallying outside a Los Angeles County board of supervisors meeting on Tuesday in an effort to convince government officials to allow the resumption of live racing at Santa Anita. Even behind a mask, the white-haired
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6:06 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — Quarterback Jameis Winston is officially heading to the New Orleans Saints after reaching a one-year deal Tuesday, the team announced. Winston, 26, is hoping to experience the same type of career revival in New Orleans that Teddy Bridgewater just did under the tutelage of coach Sean Payton and starting
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5:10 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The Pirates are suspending retirement benefits for members of Pittsburgh’s baseball operations staff in an effort to cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. General manager Ben Cherington said Tuesday that the team has been searching for ways to find savings with the 2020 season on
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5:45 PM ET Nebraska reserve quarterback Noah Vedral is transferring from the school. Vedral entered the NCAA’s transfer portal Tuesday as a graduate student and will have two years of eligibility left. He started two games last season for the Huskers, and also replaced injured starter Adrian Martinez during a win against Northwestern. Vedral followed
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3:41 PM ET North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said that he expects one of NASCAR’s crown jewel events, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, to take place during its traditional Memorial Day weekend date of Sunday, May 24, “unless health conditions go down.” Cooper made the comments on Tuesday afternoon during his daily press
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3:20 PM ET Chief medical officers from major sports leagues participated in a call Tuesday with Seema Verma, who is a member of the White House coronavirus task force and administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. The call, according to a White House official, was to go over how sports plays a
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10:59 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Wood, the Hampshire left-arm seamer, has revealed an 11-year fight against gambling addiction. Wood, who has won four white-ball trophies with Hampshire since making his first-team debut in 2010, has not placed a bet since December 2018 after a long battle against addiction. He has regularly suffered from long-term
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10:05 PM IST Chris Gayle has singled out former West Indies team-mate Ramnaresh Sarwan for playing a “big part” in Jamaica Tallawahs releasing him from their Caribbean Premier League set-up recently. In an outburst, released in a personal video on YouTube on Monday, Gayle also blamed Tallawahs’ chief executive officer Jeff Miller and owner Krish
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Formula 1 has almost doubled the shutdown period for teams as the coronavirus crisis continues to play havoc with the 2020 championship. The period factories must be closed for and employees related to car performance away from work is now 63 consecutive days – up from 35. Teams began shutdowns on different dates in March.
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10:02 AM ET The NHL season remains paused due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the league is offering fans a unique way to support their team while also following social distancing guidelines. The NHL is now selling licensed cloth face coverings, featuring all 31 team logos, on the league’s apparel website. NHL-licensed cloth face coverings
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