Month: May 2020

3:44 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN With the best chance of a reunion with Jadeveon Clowney likely having come and gone, the Seattle Seahawks are counting on some of their younger defensive linemen to improve what was one of the NFL’s least effective pass rushes last season. One of them, 2019 first-round pick L.J. Collier, is
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3:01 PM ET Associated Press Pocono Raceway will hold its NASCAR weekend without fans. The Cup Series is scheduled to race June 27-28 and Truck and second-tier Xfinity races also will be held that weekend. Pocono said in a message to fans “it will certainly miss your passion, laughs, cheers, and smiles as the green
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1:38 PM ET Associated Press The NCAA released a long and detailed plan Friday to help schools bring athletes back to campus during a pandemic. The Resocialization of Collegiate Sports: Action Plan Considerations was announced as schools across the country prepare for the return of football players as early as June 8. The NCAA’s Division
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1:35 PM ET David Price has yet to throw an official pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers, but he has already made a profound impact throughout the organization. The All-Star left-hander will give each minor league player who is not on the Dodgers’ 40-man roster $1,000 for the month of June, sources confirmed to ESPN.
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4:42 PM ET Talks between the UFC and light heavyweight champion Jon Jones over a potential jump to heavyweight stalled out last month after Jones requested an “absurd” amount of money to do so, according to UFC president Dana White. Jones (26-1) publicly stated on social media late last week that he was “currently in
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12:57 PM ET The UFC’s first main event back in its hometown is now official. Former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and Gilbert Burns made weight Friday morning at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Woodley and Burns each weighed in at 170.5 pounds. The UFC Fight Night card will take place Saturday night at the
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10:29 PM IST English authorities hoping to stage the first “bio-secure” Test matches since cricket shut down in the face of the coronavirus outbreak remain hopeful that the ICC will alter playing regulations to allow Covid-19 substitutions, according to Steve Elworthy, the ECB’s director of special operations. Earlier this month, the ICC’s cricket committee recommended
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11:11 AM ET Roger Federer has taken over as the highest-paid athlete in Forbes annual earnings report, topping Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi who have held the No. 1 spot in three of the last four years. Federer earned $106 million pre-tax, edging out Ronaldo by about $1 million to take over No. 1. According
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10:54 AM ET Associated Press Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev and Nick Kyrgios will play exhibition tennis matches in Berlin in July amid the coronavirus pandemic. One exhibition event will run from July 13 to 15 on grass and another on a hard court in a hangar in the city’s closed Tempelhof airport from July 17
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