Month: June 2020

5:29 PM ET Associated Press An Arizona Coyotes staff member has tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolated at home in the Phoenix area. The staffer is asymptomatic and feeling well, the team said. All other staff members or players involved in Phase 2 of the NHL’s testing protocol have tested negative as teams prepare
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3:27 PM ET On the cusp of hundreds of millions of dollars in contract extensions, several of the NBA’s top young stars had a Friday call with National Basketball Players Association officials about the possibility of league-financed insurance policies to protect against career-threatening injuries in the bubble restart in Orlando, sources tell ESPN. Miami’s Bam
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2:56 PM ET Former Murray State star Ja Morant is asking a Kentucky judge to remove a Confederate monument in downtown Murray. Morant, who was drafted with the second pick in the 2019 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies, led Murray State to a conference championship in 2019. “Murray felt like a second home from
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5:47 PM ET The debate about whether the NBA season resuming would benefit or distract from the Black Lives Matter movement continued Saturday with players weighing in on social media. Houston Rockets guard Austin Rivers made the case on Instagram that NBA players earning their salaries would allow them to financially aid the cause while
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4:18 PM ET Major League Baseball has reached a billion-dollar deal with Turner Sports, giving the broadcast company continued rights to air playoff games, a source confirmed to ESPN. The exact value and length of the new contract were not immediately known. Last year, Turner aired the full National League playoff slate on TBS. According
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1:16 PM ET Iowa football player Jack Koerner was seriously injured in a watercraft accident Friday at Lake of the Ozarks, according to the school and an incident report of the crash. Koerner, a junior defensive back, was transported to a local hospital with what the school said were “non-life threatening injuries.” According to the
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12:59 PM ET A Colorado State football player working for a roofing company in Loveland was ordered to the ground and held at gunpoint on Thursday by a man who mistook the player and another employee as being members of the activist group known as Antifa. According to a report from 9news.com, Scott Gudmundsen initially
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