Month: June 2020

12:55 PM ET Associated Press ROME — Race car driver-turned-Paralympic champion Alex Zanardi has been seriously injured again. Police told The Associated Press that Zanardi was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Siena following a road accident near the Tuscan town of Pienza during a national race Friday for Paralympic athletes on handbikes. A
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1:30 PM ET The Southwestern Athletic Conference is preparing to start its football season on Labor Day weekend, but also has a contingency plan to begin as late as Oct. 17 – or cancel fall sports entirely – if the coronavirus pandemic remains a threat, commissioner Charles McClelland told ESPN on Friday. “Anything after the
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12:18 PM ET The NCAA expanded its Confederate flag policy on Friday to prohibit all its championship events from being held in the states where the flag is flown. Mississippi is the only state affected by the policy change. It is the only state flag that continues to feature the banner of the Confederacy —
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11:32 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Tennis authorities suspended Venezuelan referee Armando Belardi for two years and six months on Friday for not reporting approaches to him to alter match scores. Belardi was approached twice in 2018 by unidentified parties, the Tennis Integrity Unit said. The investigation found that Belardi did not alter the
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10:56 AM ET The statue of former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall, who was forced to integrate his franchise in the early 1960s, was removed outside of RFK Stadium on Friday morning. Events DC, which is in charge of RFK Stadium, removed the statue. Max Brown, the chairman of the Events DC board of
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10:46 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Talladega, Alabama, on Sunday for the Geico 500. Denny Hamlin raced to his third victory of the season and 40th overall with his win last Sunday at Homestead, his record-tying third NASCAR Cup Series victory at the track. Who will take the checkered
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