Month: June 2020

5:02 PM ET The Hockey Hall of Fame announced a six-member class for 2020, including first-ballot inductees Jarome Iginla and Marian Hossa. The class also included defensemen Kevin Lowe and Doug Wilson, both of whom saw long waits end; Canadian hockey goaltender Kim St-Pierre in the women’s category; and Edmonton Oilers general manager Ken Holland
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1:46 PM ET Bubba Wallace is thankful that a noose found in his garage at Talladega Superspeedway wasn’t intended for him, but he doesn’t think the ensuing investigation was an overreaction. “Are we hypersensitive to everything that’s going on in the world now? Absolutely,” Wallace, NASCAR’s only Black full-time driver, told ESPN’s First Take on
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2:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila says one player and one staff member have tested positive for the coronavirus. Avila said on a video conference Wednesday that the player was living in Florida but was not working out at the team’s spring training facilities in Lakeland. He did not
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4:56 PM ET Penn State coach James Franklin told HBO’s “Real Sports” that his family will stay in Florida while he coaches this season because of the coronavirus pandemic. Franklin, his wife and his two daughters have been in their own quarantine since March. His youngest daughter, who is 12, has sickle cell disease, a
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4:38 PM ET Associated Press The University of Northern Colorado will discontinue the men’s and women’s tennis programs as part of a cost-saving effort caused by budget shortfalls created by the coronavirus pandemic. The school, located in Greeley, Colorado, will now sponsor 17 intercollegiate athletic programs, including nine women’s sports. Northern Colorado said it will
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11:45 AM ET Brooks Koepka had decided not to play in this week’s Travelers Championship after his caddie, Ricky Elliott, tested positive for the coronavirus. “I’m going to pull out to protect everybody else,” Koepka told Golfweek. “I think it’s the right thing to do. I don’t want to risk anyone’s life if they have
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5:29 PM ET PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said Wednesday that extra testing and stricter monitoring of protocols that could result in “serious repercussions” for offenders will go into effect in the wake of three positive COVID-19 tests this week at the Travelers Championship. Monahan said across both the PGA Tour and the developmental Korn
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