10:17 AM ET The 149th Open Championship, scheduled for July 16-19, was canceled Monday due to the coronavirus pandemic. The R&A confirmed the decision and said the tournament, which was to be played at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England, will move to that location in 2021. Further details were to be released. “I can
Month: April 2020
10:04 AM ET Kentucky freshman Tyrese Maxey declared for the 2020 NBA draft on Monday. “My thoughts were that we would be playing for a national championship [today],” Maxey told ESPN. “Although we’re unable to do that due to what our country is experiencing, I felt like this was the day to declare for the
10:50 AM ET Clemson Tigers has won five consecutive ACC championships, going 43-2 in conference play during that stretch and oddsmakers expect the Tigers’ ACC dominance to continue this season but aren’t convinced that coach Dabo Swinney’s squad is the best in the nation. Caesars Sportsbook has installed Clemson as a giant -600 favorite to
2:44 PM GMT Dane Paterson, the seamer who made his Test debut for South Africa in the 2019-20 summer, has ended his career in his home country and intends to play professionally in England from this season. Paterson could be left in limbo, however, after an interview to confirm his Kolpak deal with Nottinghamshire, scheduled
8:00 AM ET As baseball’s work stoppage lingered into the spring of 1995 and camps opened amid a loose plan for the teams to use replacement players, a small group of Baltimore fans gathered near the parking lot entrance to the Orioles’ facility, bathed in orange T-shirts and caps. They clutched baseballs, bats and file
2:16 PM ET The IBF’s mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev said he will donate half of his purse from the world heavyweight title fight against Briton Anthony Joshua to help medical workers fight the “devilish” coronavirus. The 38-year-old Bulgarian is expected to earn around $5 million from the fight, which has been postponed due to the
8:58 AM ET Barely seven months ago, scores of fans milled around the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the US Open. Inside the exclusive, air-conditioned hospitality zone at the site’s Indoor Training Center, lobster rolls and steak were served alongside flutes of champagne. This week, the same hangar-like facility
Apr 6, 2020 Formula One is in “a very fragile state” due to the coronavirus crisis and risks losing some of its 10 teams unless some big changes are made, McLaren boss Zak Brown warned on Sunday. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss the latest F1 news amid the coronavirus pandemic and reveal
8:53 AM ET Williams has become the second Formula One team to announce furloughs for some of its staff and pay cuts for its drivers. George Russell and Nicolas Latifi, who is yet to make his F1 debut due to the delayed start to the current season, join senior management in taking the pay cut,
7:47 AM ET Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios once again showed his compassionate side on Monday, pledging to help hungry people and drop off food at the doorstep for those in need during the coronavirus pandemic. Kyrgios, who was placed on probation by the governing body of men’s tennis over his on-court behaviour last year,