Month: March 2020

3:18 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” All 30 Major League Baseball teams on Tuesday pledged $1 million each to help cover the lost wages of ballpark employees who have been affected by the coronavirus crisis’ postponement of the
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4:21 PM ET Let the speculation begin — or continue. It’s only been a few days since Augusta National announced it would be postponing the 2020 Masters due to the coronavirus pandemic. And the club is in the process of shutting down its operations this week. So how far the leaders of the Masters have
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1:24 PM ET Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions, following the guidelines announced by the British government and the British Boxing Board of Control, has followed other United Kingdom promoters and, as of Tuesday, postponed its upcoming events. “Queensberry Promotions feel it would be inappropriate to proceed with any forthcoming boxing promotions in front of live audiences
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2:48 PM ET One day after his UFC main event was postponed along with two other fight cards because of the coronavirus pandemic, Leon Edwards said Tuesday that he’s hopeful his fight with former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley will be rebooked once the UFC resumes operations. “This fight’s not going nowhere,” Edwards told ESPN’s Ariel
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1:48 PM ET The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Los Angeles Chargers are emerging as the favorites to land Tom Brady in the American sports betting market. Brady announced Tuesday that his time with the New England Patriots had ended and his “football journey will take place elsewhere.” On the news, Caesars Sportsbook moved the Patriots’
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1:12 PM ET Kiki VanDeWeghe, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations, sent a memo to NCAA coaches Tuesday morning to inform them that the league is accepting applications to the Undergraduate Advisory Committee, which provides feedback to players on potential draft stock. In the memo, VanDeWeghe briefly addressed the “rapidly evolving coronavirus situation,”
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12:57 PM ET The ACC became the latest NCAA conference to cancel athletics activities through the end of the 2019-20 academic year in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it might not be the last one to do so. In a statement on Tuesday, the ACC said its member schools voted unanimously to cancel “all
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