Month: February 2020

5:58 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The U.S. may get some better players for its second attempt to qualify for the Olympic baseball tournament. Major League Baseball and the MLBPA agreed to make players not likely to be on 26-man major league rosters available for the Americas qualifying tournament, to be played in
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5:08 PM ET Switzerland’s national hockey leagues will play in empty rinks this weekend thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. The Swiss government put an immediate ban on events involving more than 1,000 people on Friday. The National League’s final regular-season qualifying rounds scheduled for this weekend in Ticino will be played “without spectators” according to
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5:28 PM ET The New York Islanders are expected to play their entire 2020-21 home slate at Nassau Coliseum, Newsday reported Friday. Nassau Coliseum, which is located in Uniondale on Long Island, also would host all potential Islanders home playoff games this year, per Newsday. Postgame analysis and highlight show airing each night throughout the
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4:57 PM ET Instant replay officials might have a two-minute limit to make a decision using video, according to a rule change recommended on Friday by the NCAA Football Rules Committee, which met this week in Indianapolis. “If you get to two minutes, it’s time to wrap it up,” said Steve Shaw, the NCAA Secretary-Rules
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3:07 PM ET In the span of a week, David Ayres has gone from part-time Zamboni driver to getting his own hockey card as an NHL goaltender. Upper Deck announced on Friday that Ayres, the 42-year-old emergency backup goalie who helped the Carolina Hurricanes defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs last Saturday night, is getting a
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3:46 PM ET Associated Press Maybe some of the new rules in the XFL will catch on elsewhere. The Citadel will include a few of them in its spring game March 7 in Charleston, South Carolina. Among the different rules scheduled for use: • The XFL kickoff rule in which the kick is from the
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3:59 PM ET Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Brooks Koepka‘s only birdie on Friday happened without the help of his putter, which made all the sense in the world. The highest-ranked player in The Honda Classic field this week simply couldn’t score, and his tournament is over. Koepka missed six putts inside of
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2:30 PM ET For the second straight year, Tiger Woods is skipping the Arnold Palmer Invitational, a tournament he has won eight times. “He is not going to play,” Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, said in a text to ESPN. “Back still stiff and just not quite ready.” Woods opted to skip the WGC-Mexico Championship last
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