8:00 PM ET It’s easy to speculate that Chris Sale‘s decision to have Tommy John surgery was pushed by baseball’s coronavirus shutdown, like a NASCAR driver going to the pits in a race halted by an accident. With the immediate future of the MLB season cloudy, Sale can use the downtime to get fixed. But
Month: March 2020
5:07 PM ET The coronavirus suspended any chance of baseball in the near future, but Major League Baseball stars are already looking toward games in 2021. During a flurry of online activity Thursday, New York Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman sparked a conversation online about Team USA in the 2021 World Baseball Classic, calling out prominent
5:11 PM ET Boston Red Sox left hander Chris Sale will undergo Tommy John surgery, Chaim Bloom, the team’s chief baseball officer, announced Thursday. The surgery will keep Sale from pitching this season, the start of which is being delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Recovery from the surgery usually takes at least a year. Sale,
5:19 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN The Big3 basketball league is working to launch — under quarantine — a reality show-style, three-on-three tournament. “We’ve been working on safety issues to make sure we can do this responsibly,” Big3 executive Jeff Kwatinetz told Marc Spears of The Undefeated. “We’ve made a lot of headway since last week
10:10 AM ET Rafael Nadal may find himself vying for the French Open men’s singles title under conditions he has never encountered in his previous 12 victories at Roland Garros: the molten sunshine and chilly afternoons of autumn. That’s the plan for now. However, the French Tennis Federation’s (FFT) controversial decision to push the second
9:17 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Colin Ackermann has been named as Leicestershire’s new club captain. Having previously captained the white-ball teams, he will now succeed Paul Horton across all formats. Last season, Ackerman was the team’s leading run-scorer in the Blast, as well as taking a world-record 7 for 18 against Birmingham Bears, and the
4:20 PM ET New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton tested positive for the coronavirus, he told ESPN on Thursday. Payton, 56, is the first person in the NFL world known to test positive for the virus. Payton said he didn’t feel well this past Sunday, took the test on Monday, and received the results Thursday
8:21 PM GMT The ECB could prioritise the Hundred and the T20 Blast as it attempts to salvage something from the 2020 season. With the season certain to be curtailed by the COVID-19 crisis and the sport suffering severe economic hardship as a consequence, it appears there will be an attempt to squeeze in the
3:34 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — The Mariners have shut down their spring training facility in Arizona because of the coronavirus and told their players to view the coming weeks as though they are in offseason mode. Seattle general manager Jerry Dipoto said on a conference call Thursday that the club decided to shutter
3:52 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Minor league players shut out of spring training camps will receive allowances from teams through April 8, and a plan is underway to compensate those players during the postponed portion of the regular season. Major League Baseball said Thursday that minor leaguers will receive their allowances —
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