Month: July 2020

7:07 PM ET Danica Patrick and Aaron Rodgers are no longer a couple, a rep for the former professional driver told E! News on Thursday. The two had been dating since 2017. Speculation of a breakup had picked up over the past week. Patrick wasn’t spotted in Lake Tahoe, where Rodgers competed in golf’s American
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5:05 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — The Blue Jays have been given clearance by Ontario and Toronto to play regular-season games at Rogers Centre amid the coronavirus pandemic and await approval from Canada’s federal government. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said permission had been given by the chief medical officer in Toronto and his provincial
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7:32 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Middle-of-the-order batters Juan Soto and Howie Kendrick finally joined the Washington Nationals for summer camp and played in an intrasquad scrimmage Thursday night, after missing nearly two weeks of workouts. While the Nationals never explicitly announced why the key players were absent for the ramp-up to the regular
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4:55 PM ET Canadian five-star recruit Karim Mane has elected to sign with an agent and keep his name in the 2020 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Thursday. Despite only recently graduating high school, Mane, a guard, is eligible for the draft as an international player who satisfies the NBA’s age requirement, having turned
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3:56 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers guard Rajon Rondo had successful surgery on his fractured right thumb Wednesday, according to the team. Rondo’s timeline to return to full basketball activities remains six to eight weeks. Earlier this week, Lakers coach Frank Vogel said the team still expects Rondo to be “part of our playoff run.”
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3:37 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell sees an opportunity for growth in one category when NBA action resumes this month: passing. The 23-year-old All-Star is averaging a career-best 24.2 points and 4.4 rebounds with 4.2 assists, which matches his top output from last year, but without second-leading scorer Bojan Bogdanovic, he
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7:32 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Indiana Pacers guard Malcolm Brogdon returned to practice this week inside the Orlando bubble at Walt Disney World Resort with a new accessory. After testing positive for the coronavirus, Brogdon is wearing a mask as a safety precaution during workouts until official action resumes. “I intend to do it until
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6:45 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — The Tennis Integrity Unit has fined and suspended a Belarusian chair umpire and a Greek tournament director for match-fixing and betting offenses. Umpire Alexey Izotov was suspended for three years and fined $10,000 on Thursday for failing to report a corrupt approach and of soliciting other umpires to
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