7:49 PM ET Associated Press Ohio State says football players will be permitted to begin voluntary workouts in school facilities on Monday. Other athletes will follow later this month, with basketball players among those who can start voluntary training on June 15. To be cleared to begin working out, Ohio State athletes will be tested
Month: June 2020
8:03 PM ET Kansas ended a prolonged contract settlement dispute with former football coach David Beaty by reaching a $2.55 million financial settlement, the school announced Friday. Beaty was owed $3 million when the Jayhawks fired him in November 2018. His Kansas teams went 6-42 in four seasons. “Despite the settlement, the University maintains the
7:46 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — Kyle Rudolph was 24 hours too late. By the time the Minnesota Vikings tight end drove around Monday to look for places in need of organized clean-up efforts after looting and riots took place throughout the Twin Cities following George Floyd’s death, the 30-year-old witnessed his favorite element of the
2:36 PM ET Players participating in a 10-team, 36-game German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) tournament slated to start in Munich on Saturday are being asked to wear chips monitoring their movements, league commissioner Stefan Holz told ESPN. The BBL has been suspended since March 8. The league is isolating players, coaches, referees and other staff during
7:04 PM ET With a core that has been intact longer than most of their West rivals to go with a fitter and more “athletic” Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray says the Denver Nuggets are ready to show that they can emerge from Orlando with an NBA championship. “We know we can go win the title,”
6:41 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Summer has officially begun for the Chicago Bulls and seven other NBA teams not invited to Orlando to finish out the rest of the 2019-20 regular season. “It sucks. You’ve got to understand it. It’s a weird time, especially with everything that’s going on right now, but it’s upsetting too,”
6:10 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN Amid the global outpouring of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand are pledging $100 million over the next 10 years to nationwide organizations “dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education.” “Black lives matter. This isn’t a controversial statement,” read
5:22 PM ET National Basketball Players Association representatives approved the NBA’s 22-team format to complete the 2019-2020 season, the NBPA announced Friday. The NBA and NBPA will work through a number of details in the next week on the season’s resumption at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, but sides are ready to move
6:59 PM ET NFL commissioner Roger Goodell issued a statement Friday condemning racism, saying he admits the league was wrong to not listen to its players earlier and that it will try to do better. “It has been a difficult time for our country, In particular, black people in our country,” Goodell said in a
5:48 PM ET The PGA Tour will return in a big way next week with a blockbuster field at the Charles Schwab Challenge, where 16 of the top 20-ranked players in the world have entered the event. Tiger Woods is not among them, but each of the top five players, including No. 1-ranked Rory McIlroy,