Month: June 2020

1:43 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning have temporarily shut down their training facility after several players and staffers have tested positive for coronavirus, a source confirmed to ESPN. Other players and staffers who have been at the facility are being tested. The Lightning and NHL will figure out how to proceed based off of
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2:22 PM ET Associated Press The European Tour won’t have a senior circuit this year. The Staysure Tour for players 50 and older announced Friday it has canceled the season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was supposed to start May 14-16 in Austria. Three senior majors on its schedule — the Senior PGA, the
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7:06 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1996, Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith announced his retirement, effective at the end of that season. He retired as
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11:50 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter tweeted Friday morning that his father had been released from prison in his native Turkey seven years after he was originally arrested by the country’s authoritarian government. “Wow! I could cry,” Kanter wrote. “Today I found out that 7 years after arresting my dad, taking
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11:32 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Tennis authorities suspended Venezuelan referee Armando Belardi for two years and six months on Friday for not reporting approaches to him to alter match scores. Belardi was approached twice in 2018 by unidentified parties, the Tennis Integrity Unit said. The investigation found that Belardi did not alter the
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10:46 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Talladega, Alabama, on Sunday for the Geico 500. Denny Hamlin raced to his third victory of the season and 40th overall with his win last Sunday at Homestead, his record-tying third NASCAR Cup Series victory at the track. Who will take the checkered
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