Month: June 2020

10:48 AM ET The University of Cincinnati will remove Marge Schott’s name from its baseball stadium, citing the late Cincinnati Reds owner’s “record of racism and bigotry.” The university’s board of trustees on Monday unanimously voted to remove Schott’s name from the stadium and from the university’s archives library. The decision is effective immediately. Former
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12:50 PM ET Last month we held our first fantasy football mock draft of the season, a 12-team PPR draft. Now, the ESPN experts have returned for a 10-team standard PPR draft. Create or join a league today >>Cheat Sheet Central >> The participants for this mock draft, in order of draft position, were: Matt
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7:27 AM ET Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc put a Formula One car through its paces for the first time since preseason at a test at Mugello on Tuesday. Vettel and Leclerc split duties in the team’s 2018 car, the SF71H, at the Tuscany circuit, which has been slated as a possible late
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10:35 AM ET The Detroit Lions are getting a new owner — and it is staying in the family. The Lions announced Tuesday that Sheila Ford Hamp will take over as the team’s principal owner and chairwoman in place of her mother, 94-year-old Martha Firestone Ford. Ford Hamp is expected to address the media later
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8:58 AM ET Former Formula One driver and twice Champ Car champion Alex Zanardi will remain in an induced coma until at least next week, according to the neurosurgeon who operated on him. The 53-year-old Italian suffered severe head injuries in a road accident while racing his handbike in Italy on Friday. “Zanardi is in
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3:13 AM ET A third tennis player has tested positive for the coronavirus after participating in Novak Djokovic‘s Adria Tour. The No. 184 ranked Viktor Troicki played in the first leg staged at Djokovic’s tennis complex in central Belgrade from June 13-14. 1 Related Troicki, 34, entered Janko Tipsarevic‘s Eastern European Championship tournament which started
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8:07 AM ET ESPN News Services Novak Djokovic has tested positive for the coronavirus after taking part in a tennis exhibition series he organized in Serbia and Croatia. The top-ranked Serb is the fourth player to test positive for the virus after first playing in Belgrade and then again last weekend in Zadar, Croatia. His
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