Month: July 2021

2:40 PM ET As the Seattle Kraken select their first roster of players in Wednesday’s expansion draft, some of the city’s most famous athletes will be announcing their names. Scheduled to reveal players selected by the Kraken in the expansion draft (8 p.m. ET Wednesday, ESPN2) are Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird, Seattle Sounders FC
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2:41 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — SEC commissioner Greg Sankey announced Monday that the presidents and chancellors of the conference approved a new diversity initiative to establish an expectation for athletics department hiring processes around key leadership roles. Sankey pointed out that while LSU hired the league’s first Black president, William Tate, in May there
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2:22 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — SEC media days kicked off on Monday with commissioner Greg Sankey announcing that six of the league’s 14 football teams have reached 80% vaccinations. “That number needs to grow and grow rapidly,” Sankey said. “We have learned how to manage through a COVID environment, but we do not yet
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12:23 PM ET The NHL’s 2021-22 regular-season schedule will include a break for the Winter Olympics in Beijing, sources with knowledge of the schedule confirmed on Monday. The Olympic break is reportedly scheduled from Feb. 5-22, 2022. The schedule, which will be released on Thursday, is expected to include a caveat that NHL participation in
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9:19 AM ET Nashville Predators prospect Luke Prokop on Monday became the first active player under NHL contract to come out as gay. Prokop, 19, made the announcement in an Instagram post. “It has been quite the journey to get to this point in my life, but I could not be happier with my decision
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10:28 AM ET The prospect of winning an Olympic gold medal for Serbia outweighs the disappointment of playing in an empty venue at the Tokyo games, the men’s world tennis No. 1 Novak Djokovic said on Monday. Djokovic considered pulling out of the Olympics due to COVID-19-related restrictions after winning Wimbledon this month but decided
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