Month: July 2020

8:25 PM ET The Southwestern Athletic Conference is postponing its fall sports competitions and championships because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and has begun plans to push the fall schedule to the 2021 spring semester, according to a statement provided to ESPN on Monday. The plans for football include a seven-game conference schedule that begins
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4:20 PM ET The NFL and its players have reached agreement on the testing aspect of their COVID-19 safety protocol as training camps get set to open over the next couple of weeks. Dr. Allen Sills, the league’s chief medical officer, said that the agreement between the NFL and the NFL Players Association would require
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8:13 PM ET The NFL on Monday made an offer to the NFL Players Association to play no preseason games this summer, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The players had been pushing not to play preseason games this year, while the league had most recently been seeking to play two games instead of the
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6:11 PM ET Days after receiving a warning for not wearing a face covering in common areas at the NBA campus, Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard continued to question the need for a mask inside the league’s so-called “bubble” in Orlando, Florida. “They sanitize everything,” Howard said on an Instagram Live video he posted
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5:16 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Rangers forward Brendan Lemieux has been suspended by the NHL for the first two games of the team’s preliminary-round series against the Carolina Hurricanes because of an illegal check that injured Colorado Avalanche forward Joonas Donskoi in March. The league’s department of player safety announced the suspension
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3:21 PM ET An overwhelming majority of sports fans polled by ESPN say they support the return of professional and collegiate sports even if fans will not be in attendance due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A second wave of ESPN’s Coronavirus Lockdown Fan Study surveyed 1,003 sports fans age 18 and older and found
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6:00 AM ET Six-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady often talked about his heavily regimented diet while playing for the New England Patriots, which included producing a “TB12 Nutrition Plan” filled with recipes for sale. His potential replacement, Cam Newton, is following a bit of a different script. Newton isn’t selling anything, but he’s delivering
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12:54 PM ET PGA Tour player Grayson Murray said he has tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing symptoms while at home last week and has withdrawn from this week’s 3M Championship. Murray, 26, appears to have tested on his own and not as part of the PGA Tour’s pre-screening tests. He withdrew from the Workday
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11:43 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC has finally postponed this year’s T20 World Cup. Originally due to be played in Australia in October-November, it will now be rescheduled to either 2021 or 2022. Several members were eagerly awaiting any decision for the sake of clarity in beginning to plan their own Covid-19-hit futures. Some
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8:15 AM ET Football is a sport of fantasy, ferocity, failure, fun and phenomenal talent. So when a season ends the normal, reassuring, thing would be to immediately reach for adjectives to help us appreciate Zinedine Zidane‘s majesty, the brilliance of Karim Benzema, Lionel Messi‘s misery, another Monchi project which wins A+ marks or tall
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