A view across the redeveloped Junction Oval in Melbourne © Getty Images Up to half of Cricket Victoria’s staff have been sacrificed, with community cricket particularly hard hit, in a restructuring of the state association that has been explained away as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic but has origins stretching back nearly a decade.
3:42 AM BST ESPN staff Former All Blacks coach remains Steve Hansen remains upset about the decision that cost his side a potentially series-winning penalty against the British & Irish Lions in 2017. The series locked at 1-1 game apiece, the two sides met at a packed Eden Park in Auckland for the decider. With
2:01 AM ET Mark McNamara, the 6-foot-11 center who etched his name into the Cal men’s basketball record books during his two seasons there before moving on to an eight-year NBA career, died Monday of heart failure. He was 60. McNamara had been dealing with heart issues and other health problems for several years. McNamara
12:26 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN A FEW WEEKS ago Paul Armendariz, an air conditioning mechanic from California’s Central Valley, was talking to his aunt Yolanda, who had just received her $1,200 federal stimulus check. Aunt Yolanda, now 74, was the 11th of 12 children from Fresno by way of Mexico, part of an immigrant generation
12:26 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA issued a memo Thursday night advising teams not to arrange coronavirus tests for asymptomatic players and staff, league sources told ESPN. The memo states that, “for the time being, it is not appropriate in the current public health environment to regularly test all players and staff for the
7:59 PM ET For a time, Las Vegas was the most popular idea for a proposed resumption of the NBA season: a bubble city of teams grinding out the playoffs within a quarantine of connected casino hotels and arenas. As time has passed, those talking with NBA commissioner Adam Silver find him still needing to
11:46 PM ET Associated Press Former NHL enforcer Georges Laraque has tested positive for COVID-19. The 43-year-old Laraque made the announcement on social media Thursday in a post showing him in a hospital gown. “I guess I’m not invincible, just got diagnosed with Covid, since I’m asthmatic, not the best news, will fight it off!”
11:13 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN With NFL facilities shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Seattle Seahawks are holding video conferences in lieu of in-person meetings that would normally take place at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Coach and noted prankster Pete Carroll, whose team began its virtual offseason program this week, wanted to
10:29 PM ET The coronavirus pandemic has forced golf courses to get creative in order to stay open and safe. Jordan Spieth became a high-profile victim of the rules in place at Maridoe Golf Club in Carrollton, Texas, on Thursday when he watched his tee shot fly into the cup for an apparent ace, only
9:55 PM ET Associated Press MALENY, Australia — Adam Scott‘s “Nine holes with a mate” was authentic, if nothing else. With the PGA Tour suspended and sports generally shuttered globally because of the coronavirus pandemic, Scott is back in Australia and looking for ways to keep golf fans engaged. The 2013 Masters Champion livestreamed nine