Month: April 2020

5:20 AM ET World No. 3 Dominic Thiem has rejected the notion that the top tennis players should chip in to help lower-ranked competitors who are struggling financially due to the pause in tournaments because of the coronavirus pandemic. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic last week urged players to contribute to a fund set up
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4:00 AM ET The French Grand Prix has been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, meaning Formula One’s season is unlikely to begin until July at the earliest. Earlier this month the the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, said the ongoing coronavirus pandemic would likely extend France’s ban on public events until mid-July. The Paul Ricard
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1:08 AM ET Rafael Nadal is very pessimistic about the possibility of tennis returning to normal any time soon because of the coronavirus pandemic that shut down the sport last month. Professional tennis has been suspended until the end of July, at the earliest, and Nadal said Sunday that serious problems stand in the way
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1:42 AM ET The Chicago Bulls are hiring Marc Eversley as the franchise’s general manager, league sources told ESPN. Eversley, the senior vice president of player personnel with the Philadelphia 76ers, agreed to a deal late Sunday night to join new executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas with Chicago, sources said. 2 Related
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12:56 AM ET More than three decades after the Detroit Pistons stalled Michael Jordan’s ascending stardom by bouncing the Chicago Bulls from the playoffs in three straight postseasons, Jordan admitted he still harbors animosity for the “Bad Boys” team that threatened to derail his success. “Oh, I hated them,” Jordan said in Episode 3 of
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11:07 PM ET THREE DAYS HAD passed since Doc Rivers watched the first two episodes of “The Last Dance,” and he couldn’t get the predicament former Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson faced during that 1997-98 season out of his head. “Can you imagine?” Rivers asked on the twice-weekly Zoom call he has been having with
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