A race would not be cancelled in the re-started season if a driver or team member tested positive for coronavirus, says Formula 1 boss Chase Carey. The F1 chairman and chief executive was speaking after F1 announced the first eight races of a rescheduled 2020 season starting in Austria on 5 July. “We will have
Month: June 2020
2:24 PM ET Associated Press Arrogate, winner of the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Classic and the champion 3-year-old male that year on his way to becoming North America’s all-time leading money earner, has died. He was seven. Juddmonte Farms said Arrogate was euthanized Tuesday after becoming ill. The Lexington, Kentucky, breeding farm said it was unclear
2:20 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — A week after George Floyd died while in custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, an incident which sparked mass protests in the Twin Cities and across the nation, two Minnesota Vikings linebackers are speaking out in response to a statement issued by the National Football League. The league’s statement expressed
12:05 PM BST England’s Gallagher Premiership and second-tier Championship clubs have been given the green light to resume individual training from Tuesday with strict social distancing measures, the Professional Game Board announced. Competitive sport has been suspended in the UK since March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 39,000 people.
9:29 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Bao Nguyen loved to watch movies while he was growing up, but as a child of the 1980s, the options were not as robust as they are in 2020. Nguyen remembers stumbling upon a film from a decade before he was born, the Bruce Lee martial arts classic “Enter the
8:20 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Sussex have announced that Travis Head‘s contract with the club has been deferred to 2021. Head, who was due to play across all three formats in the 2020 season, has worked under Sussex’s head coach Jason Gillespie at the Adelaide Strikers, and was set to become the latest in a
12:30 PM ET UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones hasn’t fought since a razor-thin decision win over Dominick Reyes on Feb. 8, but his current war of words with UFC president Dana White is threatening to overshadow anything taking place in the Octagon. Jones is saying he will relinquish his title and has asked White
7:00 AM ET Every team begins a given season with questions to answer. Some just have far more than others. This time last year, we were wondering if Justin Fields was ready to dominate at Ohio State or if Joe Burrow’s late-2018 surge at LSU meant something significant. He was, and it did. This year,
Wes Unseld, who died Tuesday at the age of 74, spent more than three decades in the NBA as a player, coach and executive. He helped lead the then-Washington Bullets to their only NBA championship in 1978, earning Finals MVP honors. He, along with Wilt Chamberlain, is one of two players to win the league’s
Lewis Hamilton says he is “completely overcome with rage” at events in the USA following George Floyd’s death. It is the second time Hamilton has spoken out this week in the wake of protests breaking out across the US. Floyd, an unarmed black man, died on 25 May after a white police officer, since charged
8:30 AM ET The sheer volume of questions about the NHL’s season restart this summer can leave one feeling woozy. Will teams and players come back? Can they come back? Should they come back? And that’s not even getting into the mysteries concerning locations, schedules, and the hundreds of health and safety considerations necessary for
11:22 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ECB has announced “bittersweet” financial results for 2019-20, reporting a record turnover of £228 million while bracing for the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on cricket in England and Wales. In its strategic report, the ECB attributed the increase in turnover to the staging of last year’s World Cup,
7:00 AM ET Is all of the recent acrimony between MLB players and owners real or the byproduct of the early stages of the 2020 season’s negotiations playing out in the public spotlight? When recently asked that question, one baseball official’s reply was, “Yes.” Yes, as in both things are true. It’s with that backdrop
7:30 AM ET Only a few years ago, Derrick Mains and his staff were fighting an uphill battle trying to pitch golf courses on the idea of a single-rider golf cart. The president at Phat Scooter, which produces a golf-specific scooter meant for one rider, Mains remembers going to the PGA Merchandise Show three years
7:30 AM ET Exactly 100 days remain before the scheduled start of the NFL season. If the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs actually kick off Sept. 10 at Arrowhead Stadium, they will produce one of the most significant moments in league history. None of this country’s major professional leagues has managed to resume play
9:23 AM ET In 2007, the WTA announced that upon revisiting the rankings data for 1976. Evonne Goolagong — a multiple Grand Slam singles champion who had never reached the No. 1 ranking — should have been in the top spot ahead of Chris Evert for two weeks in 1976, officially altering the record 31
12:28 PM ET UFC strawweight champion Zhang Weili doesn’t have her next fight booked yet, but if it were up to her she would fight a former champion. Zhang told ESPN on Thursday that her preference is to next fight Rose Namajunas, who held the belt from November 2017 to May 2019. “I would fight
7:30 AM ET Today’s NHL is loaded with skill and talent up and down the ice. But what would the perfect player look like? Using the attributes of current NHL stars, we set out to create the perfect forward, defenseman and goaltender. We start the series here by building the ultimate forward from 19 different