Month: March 2020

12:38 AM ET DALLAS — Mark Cuban’s jaw dropped when Dallas Mavericks vice president of basketball communications Scott Tomlin sat next to him early in Wednesday’s third quarter and showed him the email from the NBA league office announcing that the rest of the season had been suspended. “This is crazy. This can’t be true,”
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11:04 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Wednesday night’s game between the New Orleans Pelicans and Sacramento Kings was postponed minutes before tipoff. The NBA said “the game was canceled out of an abundance of caution because one of the referees assigned to work in the game also worked a Utah Jazz game earlier
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11:08 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Five members of the Formula One paddock have now been tested for coronavirus after two more Haas employees reported potential symptoms on Thursday morning in Melbourne. The results of two Haas team members and a McLaren team member, who were tested on Wednesday, are expected later on Thursday and
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10:21 PM ET Steve KimESPN Three fight cards scheduled for March at the Casino of Montreal were canceled Wednesday because of concerns about the coronavirus. One card, featuring a middleweight contest between Steve Butler and Marcos Reyes, was scheduled for Thursday and was called off a few hours after the boxers weighed in. Eye of
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9:02 PM ET UFC fighter Brian Ortega offered a more robust apology Wednesday for an incident that occurred last Saturday night in the crowd at UFC 248. On Instagram, Ortega wrote he now understands “what I did was truly wrong.” The featherweight fighter was referring to his slapping of popular Korean-American rapper Jay Park during
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8:43 PM ET ESPN News Services Wednesday’s Oklahoma City Thunder–Utah Jazz game at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City was postponed before tipoff after a player tested positive for the coronavirus, the NBA said in a statement. The player is the Jazz’s Rudy Gobert, sources told ESPN. 2 Related The NBA said in a statement
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9:38 PM ET The NBA announced that it has suspended its season until further notice after the completion of Wednesday night’s games after a member of the Utah Jazz has preliminarily tested positive for the coronavirus. The player is the Jazz’s Rudy Gobert, sources told ESPN. That led to the Jazz game at Oklahoma City
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9:50 AM ET After finishing third in the regular season, the Straubing Tigers were well-positioned to challenge for Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga championship. It would have been the first one in franchise history for Straubing, a city of fewer than 48,000 people in lower Bavaria whose hockey team consistently has one of the smallest budgets
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