3:54 PM ET ESPN News Services Major League Baseball and its umpires have reached a deal to cover a 2020 pay structure during the coronavirus pandemic, the MLB Umpires Association announced Friday. The umps will be paid a pro-rated share of their salaries based on games worked over a 182-day season, a source confirmed to
Month: May 2020
2:58 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN In the early hours of Sunday, April 26, after an extensive process of reviewing candidates, Arturas Karnisovas decided on the Chicago Bulls‘ new general manager, Marc Eversley. ESPN was re-airing the third and fourth episodes of “The Last Dance” docuseries chronicling Chicago’s last NBA championship team, and Eversley was watching
3:11 PM ET Jeremy Lin says he was surprised, humbled and ultimately grateful after the New York Knicks reached out to propose taking a week on MSG Network to showcase interviews and 2012 games related to the brief but memorable phenomenon that was “Linsanity.” In an interview with Rachel Nichols for ESPN’s The Jump that
3:28 PM ET Running back Chris Thompson is signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars, the team announced Friday. A source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler that Thompson was joining the team on a one-year contract. Thompson joins an uncertain Jaguars backfield, with sources having told ESPN’s Adam Schefter earlier this month that the team has had trade
2:44 PM ET Patrick Mahomes doesn’t yet have a long-term contract extension from the Kansas City Chiefs but said he’s confident an agreement will eventually be reached. “I want to be a Chief for a long time,” Mahomes said Friday. “I want to have a contract that says that and then I can go out
2:39 PM ET Former Mississippi State quarterback Keytaon Thompson is joining Virginia as a graduate transfer. Thompson, who entered the NCAA transfer portal last month, announced his destination Friday on Twitter, writing that he will have two years of eligibility at Virginia and pursue his master’s degree there. 🔶⚔️🔷😏 pic.twitter.com/JgPcP8MHlc — KT 🏧🤙🏽 (@Thompson_Kt5) May
2:40 PM ET Associated Press U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants baseball and football to get on the field, and he says big league opening day could take place around the start of July. “I think there will be a college football season. They may have nobody in the stands or reduced attendance, but
7:50 AM ET Though we are trained from birth to believe otherwise, college football does not need to occur in autumn. This is good news, since we now know there’s a distinct possibility that the 2020 college football season will finish well into 2021. It may not even start until then. If the coronavirus pandemic
11:02 PM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando England’s Test tour of Sri Lanka, which was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, will be rescheduled to January 2021. That is what SLC CEO Ashley de Silva has suggested anyway, though the ECB appears not to have made any firm arrangements yet. SLC is currently attempting to reschedule a
12:05 PM ET Associated Press Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid has spoken with cornerback Bashaud Breeland following his arrest in South Carolina. Reid said Friday that the organization will allow the legal process to play out before making any decisions of its own. The 28-year-old Breeland faces five total charges, including resisting arrest and