1:49 AM ET Chicago Cubs manager David Ross, a white man raised in northern Florida, struggled to compose himself when asked about Jason Heyward‘s plight as a Black man in America. “I can’t even imagine what he’s going through,” Ross said, his voice quavering, before abruptly ending his video conference with MLB reporters Wednesday night.
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1:37 AM ET ESPN News Services Bubba Wallace, the lone Black driver competing full time in NASCAR at the national series level, took to Twitter on Thursday night to say that the sport’s drivers remain committed to fighting racial inequality, even though they’ll be racing Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway. Teams from the NBA,
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7:30 PM ET Orlando Magic forward Aaron Gordon has left the NBA bubble because of a strained left hamstring injury, the team announced Thursday. Gordon has been out of action since the injury occurred during an Aug. 5 loss to the Toronto Raptors. In the second half of that game, Gordon went up for a
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11:15 PM ET LA Clippers coach Doc Rivers said his players are ready to continue the NBA postseason after “they thought it was over” following Wednesday’s emotional players’ meeting. “Oh, they want to,” Rivers said when asked if his team is ready to move forward during an interview Thursday on Fox Prime Ticket. “They are
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8:47 PM ET Associated Press OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — One of the toughest tests of the year made it clear that par would be a great score at Olympia Fields. Leave it to Hideki Matsuyama to make a 65-foot birdie putt on his final hole Thursday to lead the BMW Championship. Matsuyama, the Japanese player
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8:50 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — There was not a lot of talk publicly from players — including Tiger Woods — about possibly skipping the first round of the BMW Championship on Thursday, potentially joining others in the sports world who are not playing games this week as a form of protest of racial
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9:50 PM ET While a fight with Georges St-Pierre has long been on UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov‘s MMA bucket list, St-Pierre said Thursday that the chances of him returning to the Octagon are “incredibly low.” “It takes three parties to make a fight,” St-Pierre, who officially announced his retirement from the UFC in February
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