Month: May 2020

10:26 AM ET Cincinnati is adding Nate Meyer, son of national championship-winning college football coach Urban Meyer, as a walk-on wide receiver, coach Luke Fickell told ESPN on Thursday. Nate Meyer, who has been an outfielder on Cincinnati’s baseball team, will be a junior this fall. He played football at Bishop Watterson High School in
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8:54 AM ET A COUPLE OF years ago, Jud Buechler’s daughter Reily was walking through Los Angeles International Airport when she spotted one of Buechler’s longtime teammates: Scottie Pippen. She texted her father about her celebrity sighting. Her phone rang. “Reily,” Buechler implored his daughter, “turn around right now and introduce yourself. Tell him how
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10:05 AM ET Bobby Marks NBA teams will withhold more than $30 million from player paychecks on Friday, as players receive their first salary reduction since the league and the union agreed to a plan to temporarily cut pay by 25%. But five of the NBA’s top-10 earners this season — LeBron James, Stephen Curry,
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9:10 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper believes there should be enough coronavirus tests by the fall that the NFL could play games in stadiums with some fans. “You won’t be playing having full stadiums, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have some fans in the stadium either,” Tepper told CNBC
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8:48 AM ET Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis believes sports are a “communal resource.” Even as the coronavirus pandemic shutters arenas and postpones games and creates a murky uncertainty about the future of sports, Leonsis believes the community will have access to that resource again. “I’m not buying, in any way, that we won’t be
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