10:25 PM ET The Missouri Valley Conference will move its football season to the spring because of the coronavirus pandemic. The league’s presidents council announced Friday that it will not conduct conference play this fall, instead moving to an eight-game spring schedule, with the expectation that the season will culminate with a spring Football Championship
9:16 PM ET Associated Press BROOKLYN, Mich. — Zane Smith scored the first Truck Series win of his career Friday night with a last-lap pass in double overtime at Michigan International Speedway. Grant Enfinger tried to win the race as the leader on four previous restarts but a slew of cautions spoiled his race. Enfinger
5:23 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Cleveland Indians hitting coach Ty Van Burkleo has opted out of the 2020 season due to concerns about contracting the coronavirus. Team president Chris Antonetti said Friday that Van Burkleo had been contemplating his departure for some time because of a personal high-risk condition and for his family.
7:06 PM ET Kelly CohenESPN Major League Baseball fans have found a new way to memorialize family and friends. ESPN has confirmed over a dozen instances of people who have died then being made into a cutout and displayed in the stands at major league parks throughout baseball during the COVID-19 pandemic. To make for
9:41 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Eloy Jimenez has no interest in the designated hitter job with the Chicago White Sox. He doesn’t want to hear anything about a late-inning defensive replacement, either. His team wants the same thing for him. Jimenez was back in left field Friday against Cleveland, one night after an
3:19 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg is scheduled to make his season debut for the Washington Nationals on Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles after being sidelined by a nerve problem in his pitching hand. Strasburg missed what would have been his first two appearances of 2020 after making all
7:37 PM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Major League Baseball has been in touch with the Oakland Athletics about their bench coach making a gesture that appeared to be a Nazi salute following a win over the Texas Rangers. No discipline has been announced against coach Ryan Christenson, who has apologized for the gesture.
3:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Eric Kay, a former director of communications for the Los Angeles Angels, has been charged by the Drug Enforcement Agency with illegally supplying drugs to pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who died in a hotel room in Texas last year. Skaggs, 27, was found dead on July 1, 2019, after police
8:20 PM ET ESPN News Services TORONTO — The Pittsburgh Penguins entered their qualifying round matchup against Montreal healthy but wary. Optimistic but guarded. While they’d shown plenty of grit during a regular season that featured extended absences by high-profile names on their star-laden roster, in a short series facing a goaltender like Carey Price,
9:05 PM ET In a shared locker room that needed cleaning so the next team could take over soon, there was no celebration for the Brooklyn Nets as they officially secured a playoff berth Friday with a 119-106 win over the Sacramento Kings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. While it was a bit of a