Month: April 2020

2:06 AM ET As Draymond Green watched the first two parts of “The Last Dance,” the proud forward saw parallels between the end of the Chicago Bulls‘ run with Michael Jordan in the 1990s and the end of the Golden State Warriors run last season with Kevin Durant. “It definitely hit close to home,” Green
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1:26 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” On the day Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told a wide swath of the sport’s staffers that “I fully anticipate baseball will return this season,” more than half the teams in
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12:46 AM ET Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean baseball league announced it will start its delayed season on May 5, and wasted no time getting preseason games going. It was a distinctly quiet start on Tuesday to two weeks of exhibition games and training for the 10 teams of the topflight
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12:46 AM ET ESPN News Services Baseball in South Korea has an official new starting date. The Korea Baseball Organization announced Tuesday that regular-season play there will begin May 5, according to the Yonhap News Agency of South Korea, which also reported that games initially will be played without fans in attendance. Per the report,
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12:07 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady might have won six Super Bowls, but like the rest of us who are trying to comply with stay-at-home orders, he’s just trying to find a place to work out. Tampa mayor Jane Castor said in a joint news briefing with St. Petersburg
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11:28 PM ET A pair of fans from New York are suing Major League Baseball, each individual club and ticket resellers over tickets purchased for MLB games which haven’t been played due the coronavirus pandemic. The complaint, filed Monday in California, is seeking class-action certification and to add more plaintiffs who are “similarly situated.” “During
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11:19 PM ET Associated Press Louisville athletic director Vince Tyra said his department will cut 15% from its sports budgets and furlough staff this week in further economic moves resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. Tyra said furloughs would be announced Wednesday, but he did not specify details to the University of Louisville Athletic Association (ULAA)
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