Month: April 2020

1:56 PM ET Baltimore Orioles star Trey Mancini on Wednesday described the “weird couple of months” that he’s been through since having surgery for stage 3 colon cancer on March 12 — the same day baseball shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. “That happened, literally, in the middle of my surgery,” Mancini said Wednesday.
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1:50 PM ET In response to the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last month voluntarily requested to the league’s compensation committee that his salary be reduced to zero, which was accepted and went into effect weeks ago, according to an email sent by Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II that was obtained by ESPN.
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12:01 PM ET NEW YORK — Scott Perry will remain the general manager of the New York Knicks after agreeing to a one-year deal, league sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. “Scott is a well-respected basketball executive who I have known for more than 20 years,” Knicks president Leon Rose said in a statement. “And
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12:30 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The NFL has renewed its streaming deal with Amazon for Thursday night games for three years. Amazon Prime Video and Twitch also will have exclusive streaming rights to one additional regular-season game in 2020. Amazon Prime Video and Twitch will stream 11 Thursday night games broadcast by
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11:45 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Nick Kyrgios has criticised Dominic Thiem for opposing the notion that the top tennis players should help lower-ranked competitors who are struggling financially after the Austrian said “none of them are going to starve.” World No. 1 Novak Djokovic has urged players to contribute
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11:31 AM ET Isiah Thomas is still upset at being left off the Dream Team and recently said he’d be even more disappointed if Michael Jordan helped influence his omission from the roster. But Rod Thorn, a longtime NBA executive who played a key role in assembling the Dream Team roster for the 1992 Olympics,
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3:01 PM ET Maria Sharapova is coming out of retirement to play. Serena Williams is embarking on another Grand Slam quest. Kevin Anderson, a 2018 Wimbledon finalist, is about to discover what it’s like to play doubles with an NFL quarterback. Those athletes and others will take part in the “Stay at Home Slam” on
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