5:57 PM ET The San Francisco 49ers have signed head coach Kyle Shanahan to a multiyear extension, the team announced Monday night. The new six-year contract replaces the three years he had remaining on his deal and ties him to the 49ers through the 2025 season, league sources told ESPN. It also makes Shanahan one
Month: June 2020
3:08 PM ET Liga MX players returned to training in club facilities on Monday, three months after the last game in Mexico’s first division and despite rising numbers of coronavirus cases in clubs and the country as a whole. The return comes with the number of confirmed cases of the virus in Liga MX approaching
5:09 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The interim president of the University of Texas said Monday he is scheduling meetings with student groups after dozens of Longhorns athletes said they wanted the school to ditch “The Eyes of Texas” song and rename several campus buildings. The athletes said last week they won’t help
5:26 PM ET Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Quinn, who recently marched in an Atlanta-area peaceful protest against racial injustice, said he intends to fully support his players if they decide to protest in any manner during the NFL season. When asked specifically if he would kneel with his players during the national anthem, Quinn responded:
5:50 PM ET Thousands of tests and billions of dollars lost. Those were among the highlights from the NFLPA’s conference call with player agents outlining the safety and financial implications the coronavirus has on the NFL as it prepares for the 2020 season. On a call including executive director DeMaurice Smith, president J.C. Tretter and
3:18 PM ET Virginia is removing details from the athletic department’s new primary and secondary logos that feature a reference to the school’s history with slavery. The V-Sabre logo and Cavalier Shield logo feature curves on the handles of two sabres that “[mimic] the design of the serpentine walls found” on campus. “In every mark
3:43 PM ET Oklahoma State’s Chuba Hubbard, the nation’s leading rusher last season, tweeted Monday that he “won’t be doing anything for Oklahoma State until things CHANGE” in response to a photo of coach Mike Gundy wearing an OAN T-shirt. “I will not stand for this,” Hubbard posted. “This is completely insensitive to everything going
2:01 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — The lone African American member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet said Monday he would “work with” the president on the issue of athletes taking a knee during the national anthem, though Trump has shown no signs of softening, tweeting over the weekend that he would not watch soccer
2:47 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos have agreed to a multi-year deal with FanDuel to make the sportsbook their official sports betting and daily fantasy football partner. The Broncos are the first NFL team to formally announce such an agreement since the league cleared the way earlier this year. The agreement will
2:14 PM ET As debate continues about a controversial statue’s place on the Texas A&M campus, senior quarterback Kellen Mond has taken on a role as an outspoken critic of the monument and those who wish to keep it, saying the statue represents someone who “killed and disenfranchised blacks.” Last Wednesday, the statue of Lawrence