5:23 PM ET Much like the PGA Tour, the PGA of America will require participants to take a COVID-19 test prior to the PGA Championship next month, while also outlining numerous recommendations for safe practices leading up to and during the week of the tournament. The PGA Championship, which was rescheduled from May to Aug.
Month: July 2020
2:40 PM ET Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, father of UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, died Friday after battling COVID-19, and his impact on the world of mixed martial arts was evident by the outpouring of respect that immediately followed on social media. Abdulmanap was not just the father of Khabib, the undefeated phenom who is ESPN’s top-ranked
5:47 PM ET Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta — The Edmonton Eskimos are keeping their team name. The Canadian Football League team said Friday it is keeping the Eskimos moniker following “an extensive year-long formal research and engagement program with Inuit leaders and community members across Canada.” “The consistent feedback was a desire for more engagement
4:55 PM BST English Premiership clubs will take another step towards a restart after the players were permitted to resume close contact training next week, the Professional Game Board (PGB) said on Friday. The Premiership was suspended in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic. 1 Related The government gave permission for elite sport to
4:43 PM ET Max Holloway traveled Wednesday from Hawaii to Las Vegas. At the airport was the first time the former UFC featherweight champion has seen his coaches in person for months. Holloway told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani on Friday that he didn’t go to the gym or see his coaches during his UFC 251 training
3:02 PM ET The world may be a very different place compared to four months ago, but it seems some things never change: Mercedes is still the team to beat in Formula One. Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that the reigning champions finished at the top of the timesheets after the first day of
4:28 PM ET Earlier this week, the NFL decided to shorten its preseason from four weeks to two to account for the coronavirus pandemic and the ways in which it’s affecting the league’s ability to start the season. But the NFL’s players don’t think that move went far enough. An NFL Players Association source said
1:12 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers team president and senior executive Gay Culverhouse, who devoted her life to helping former NFL players dealing with health issues including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), has died at the age of 73, a family spokesperson told the New York Times. Culverhouse, the daughter of late
3:03 PM ET Tight end David Njoku has asked the Cleveland Browns to trade him before training camp, his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday. The Browns told Njoku, 23, that they would like to keep him, but Rosenhaus told the team he’s intent on a trade. “It is in David’s best
2:38 PM ET Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said on Friday that while he’s still hopeful for a fall season, spring football is “very doable.” As COVID-19 cases have surged in Oklahoma and across the South, Riley said it’s important that all options are considered. “I think the people who say it’s not [an option], in