6:26 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England’s centrally-contracted men’s players have donated £500,000 to the ECB and selected good causes, while the England women’s squad has volunteered salary reductions for the months of April, May and June, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and the implications for the finances of English cricket. The move had been
Month: April 2020
1:30 PM ET The Chicago Bulls have embarked on a formal search process to hire a new top executive with full authority on basketball decisions, sources tell ESPN. Among the Bulls’ initial plans will be to seek permission to interview Denver Nuggets general manager Arturas Karnisovas and Toronto GM Bobby Webster, among other candidates, sources
1:44 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Inside Giannis Antetokounmpo‘s Wisconsin home, the reigning MVP has been cooking, cleaning, spending time with family and working out since the NBA suspended its season because of the coronavirus pandemic. What he hasn’t been doing is playing basketball. “So, I don’t have access to hoop,” Antetokounmpo said during a conference
1:46 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — The 2024 Super Bowl, which is scheduled to be played in New Orleans, may have to be moved to another location because of a calendar conflict if the NFL switches to a 17-game season. If the Super Bowl gets pushed back a week to Feb. 11 that year as
1:27 PM ET The Detroit Lions are partnering with a Detroit nonprofit sewing operation to try to help provide hospital gowns and face masks to hospitals in Michigan in need of supplies to fight the coronavirus. What started as conversations over the past few weeks among The Empowerment Plan, the Lions and other local companies
Apr 2, 2020 Former boxing world titleholder Orlando Salido said he would donate his salary as an elected deputy of the Sonora state legislature to help area families most affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The Mexican boxer, who won four titles as a featherweight and junior lightweight, said the economic consequences of the outbreak have
12:07 PM ET Amid ongoing concern and escalating coronavirus infection rates in the United States, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said he remains optimistic that the college football season will start on time. Asked his preference for how the sport might adjust to potential scheduling issues due to the pandemic, Swinney said his only focus is
6:55 AM ET Operation Shoeless Joe Jackson — that’s what the “Field of Dreams” fans inside the Tampa Bay front office called their pursuit of Tom Brady. John Spytek, director of player personnel and a former Brady teammate at Michigan, came up with the name for good reason. More than any other franchise in American
3:26 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies Under-19s’ tour of the UK, slated to run from August 16 to September 3, has been postponed due to “scheduling clashes”. The initial schedule had included one T20, three List A games and two youth Tests. “The situation is an unfortunate one as we had planned for the
3:17 PM GMT Wasim Akram and Darren Gough are among the latest cricketing personalities attempting to combat the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pair have both promised items of memorabilia to be auctioned on behalf of the Centre for Disaster Philanthropy who have set up a COVID-19 Response Fund. Akram, Pakistan’s highest wicket-taker