Jun 10, 2020 Columbus Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella once threatened to bench any player who protested during the national anthem. But as he’s watched protests against racial injustice grow around the globe, he said his stance has changed. Tortorella told The Athletic on Wednesday that he would no longer punish a player that protested
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7:00 AM ET I’ve been on the phone almost nonstop for the past few days after mostly being on and off the phone for the past few weeks. I’ve noticed that most conversations until about dinnertime Tuesday started with hope, then began fizzling about 10 minutes in when both sides realized nobody knew anything yet.
1:56 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Maxfield was discovered to have an injured ankle after a workout Wednesday at Keeneland and will miss the rescheduled Triple Crown series. The 3-year-old colt was X-rayed after a half-mile workout, and a nondisplaced condylar fracture was found in his right front cannon bone. Maxfield will undergo
12:35 AM IST Michael Carberry, the former England batsman, has claimed “cricket is rife with racism” and that “the people running the game don’t care about black people”. Talking in light of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Carberry told the Cricket Badger podcast that such an event came as no surprise to him
1:22 PM BST England prop Ellis Genge has said head coach Eddie Jones and himself suffered racist abuse during the tour to South Africa in 2018. The United Kingdom, along with several countries across the world, has seen the Black Lives Matter protests in various cities, which were sparked following the death of George Floyd,
12:49 PM ET In a world where you can get pretty much anything delivered to your front porch, here’s hoping that Reggie Bush answers the door one day soon to find the postal truck has shown up with a Heisman Trophy. His Heisman Trophy. Bush sent it back to the Heisman Trophy Trust 10 years
Jun 10, 2020 Associated Press Tennis players ranked outside the top 500 in singles or outside the top 175 in doubles are eligible for grants worth up to $1,000 from the International Tennis Federation to help deal with the suspension of competition because of the coronavirus pandemic. The ITF announced Wednesday specifics of a relief
Jun 10, 2020 Associated Press Petra Kvitova will play in a tennis exhibition event next month in Berlin, and Tommy Haas will come out of retirement to join in. Organizers added Kvitova, a two-time Wimbledon champion, to play in a women’s lineup of Elina Svitolina, Kiki Bertens, Julia Goerges and Andrea Petkovic. Haas hasn’t played
2:12 PM ET UFC president Dana White made some news Tuesday morning, and while much of the focus was on the cards he announced for the highly anticipated Fight Island, he threw in a nugget that arguably dwarfs any other fight mentioned. The trilogy bout between heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and former two-division champ Daniel
7:44 AM ET After a long break because of the coronavirus pandemic, golf makes it return this week at the Charles Schwab Classic. The field is loaded, well, except for the biggest names — Tiger Woods is sitting this one out. When will he make his debut? We’ve had a few guesses. Still, this week,
7:29 AM ET NBA Insiders Who are the favorites in the new NBA playoff races, and which team will win it all? The NBA is planning to restart with 22 teams in Orlando on July 31, featuring an eight-game regular season, a potential play-in series for the No. 8 seeds and then the playoffs. A
7:00 AM ET The ingredients that make a college football head coaching job appealing or alarming are even more pronounced at the Group of 5 level. There are undoubtedly challenging Power 5 gigs, but all come with a baseline level of resources and financial clout, from the TV money alone. The Group of 5 has
3:21 AM ET Roger Federer announced Wednesday morning that he recently experienced a setback in his recovery from knee surgery, and will be out for the remainder of the 2020 season so as to be “100% ready to play at my highest level.” Federer, 38, previously underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee in February
7:00 AM ET There is no baseball on the horizon, but there will be a baseball draft this week, though not in its usual form. You can watch the first round starting at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday on ESPN, with ESPN2 airing the next four rounds starting at 5 p.m. ET Thursday. Here are some
6:04 PM IST The ICC could loosen its interpretation of a playing code and take a “common sense” approach to players who may “take a knee” or wear and display slogans as a mark of solidarity to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement – a move that will bring it in line with organisations such as
6:56 AM ET The past two quarterbacks to win a Super Bowl could have been pro baseball players. Before Tom Brady won six rings, he was chosen in the 18th round of the 1995 draft by the Montreal Expos. “He was a left-handed-hitting catcher with power. He had a good future,” the Expos’ then-director of
By Andrew BensonChief F1 writer Last updated on 14 minutes ago14 minutes ago.From the section Formula 1 Lewis Hamilton has saluted the “positive steps” taken in the fight against racism as a result of the global protests of the past two weeks. The six-time F1 world champion said the death of George Floyd in police
11:42 PM ET Shakur Stevenson was back in the ring, dishing out a TKO and marking Top Rank Boxing’s official return to ESPN on Tuesday night. There were also a pair of heavyweight knockouts from rising prospects, as well as the continued resurgence of Robeisy Ramirez in the opener. It’s the start of a busy