10:43 AM ET The NFL has hired Maia Chaka as a game official for the 2021 season, making her the first Black woman to join the league’s on-field officiating staff. Chaka will join Sarah Thomas as the only women to officiate an NFL game. Thomas was hired in 2015 and was part of the crew
Month: March 2021
12:14 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Eagles All-Pro center Jason Kelce announced that he will return for an 11th season and has restructured his contract for 2021. Kelce has been contemplating retirement the past several offseasons but has decided to play for at least another year even though the Eagles are going through a transition
11:10 AM ET The Houston Astros are without eight pitchers at their spring training camp after they were sent home due to COVID-19 health and safety protocols, manager Dusty Baker said Friday. General manager James Click would not say if any players had tested positive, but Baker said pitchers Bryan Abreu, Luis Garcia, Ronel Blanco,
7:00 AM ET THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS spent $100 million to renovate Dodger Stadium ahead of the 2020 season, an ambitious undertaking that modified most of the infrastructure in an effort to modernize baseball’s third-oldest ballpark. “Irony of ironies,” Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten said. “After all these years of being the most beautiful
News Manu Sawhney says ‘high probability things might not go as per plan’ With the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup inching ever closer, the ICC will use the fallout from the 2021 Pakistan Super League as a “learning” experience as it prepares to conduct a safe and secure tournament comprising 16 countries. The T20 World
4:31 AM ET Manchester City face Manchester United in the 185th Manchester derby on Sunday in a game that, less than two months ago, was shaping up to be a potential Premier League title decider. 2 Related United climbed to the top of the table with a 1-0 win at Burnley on Jan. 12, moving
10:12 AM ET ASHBURN, Va. — Alex Smith‘s release doesn’t change the Washington Football Team‘s offseason plans, because it was already in the market for a starting quarterback. The move just made clear which direction it didn’t want to go to find one. Washington has two quarterbacks under contract — Taylor Heinicke and Steven Montez.
9:59 AM ET The Washington Football Team on Friday released quarterback Alex Smith, who won the 2020 NFL Comeback Player of the Year award in helping the franchise win the NFC East. Washington, which went 7-9 in 2020, wants to upgrade at quarterback this offseason and, with Smith turning 37 years old in May and
7:00 AM ET Jeff Carter doesn’t need to sugar coat it. The last two seasons were hard on the Los Angeles Kings, especially around the trade deadline. A team that won the Stanley Cup in 2012 and 2014 suddenly found itself in rebuild mode, and began moving players who were critical to those championships. “I
9:09 AM ET Williams was forced to abandon plans to reveal its 2021 Formula One car via an augmented reality app after it was hacked and images leaked online. Instead, Williams launched its new car by releasing images of the FW43B, its car for the upcoming F1 season. The team has opted for a brand