Month: June 2020

10:34 PM ET Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Noah Gragson squeezed past JR Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier with four laps remaining, a move that caused Allgaier to crash, and Gragson held on at Bristol Motor Speedway for his second win of the season. Gragson also won the season-opening race at Daytona to begin his second
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6:09 PM ET Steve KimESPN Floyd Mayweather will be paying for the funeral services for George Floyd, who was killed in an incident with Minneapolis police on May 25 that has sparked outrage and protests across the country, according to a Mayweather representative. “He’ll probably get mad at me for saying that, but yes, (Mayweather)
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9:06 PM ET Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. — NBA All-Star Trae Young spoke at a peaceful protest of racial injustice and police brutality in his hometown on Monday. Young, the former University of Oklahoma star who now plays for the Atlanta Hawks, briefly addressed several hundred people at Andrews Park about the deaths of George
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8:58 PM ET NEW YORK — An internal email was sent out to Madison Square Garden employees on Monday addressing the lack of a public statement regarding the outrage following the death of George Floyd. “We know that some of you have asked about whether our company is going to make a public statement,” the
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9:28 PM ET Steve KimESPN A 13-fight hybrid card scheduled for Saturday in Topeka, Kansas, has been moved to Abilene and will not involve any testing for COVID-19 beyond a temperature check and questionnaire. A few weeks ago, fighters on the card — which will feature boxing, kickboxing, bareknuckle fighting combat jiu-jitsu and mixed martial
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7:49 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti on Monday pledged $1 million for social justice reform in the Baltimore area, saying he is “shaken by the acts of racism that continue to overwhelm our society.” A committee of current and former Ravens players will determine which programs will directly benefit from
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7:39 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Former Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall, a college teammate and longtime friend of Colin Kaepernick who kneeled for the “The Star-Spangled Banner” before eight games in the 2016 season to protest excessive use of force by police, hopes people are now more ready for what his and Kaepernick’s message
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6:11 PM ET Organizers of the FedEx Cup playoff event near Chicago understandably took pause last week when their Illinois neighbor, the John Deere Classic, opted to cancel this year’s tournament rather than play without spectators. “When Deere canceled, we were surprised that happened; it’s unfortunate,” said John Kaczkowski, president and CEO of the Western
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7:13 PM ET Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren, the only African American Power 5 conference commissioner and the former COO of the Minnesota Vikings, has created the Big Ten Conference Anti-Hate and Anti-Racism Coalition in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. Floyd, a black man who was in handcuffs
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