Month: March 2020

10:42 AM ET The NHL has told its players they are allowed to leave their NHL cities as long as they self-isolate in their new location until at least March 27. That’s a reversal from the NHL’s initial directive, which asked players to stay in their home NHL cities as the league sorted out what
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10:04 AM ET The Women’s Tennis Association has suspended play until May 2 as the coronavirus pandemic continued its unprecedented shutdown of world sport on Monday. WTA said in a statement that tournaments in Stuttgart, Istanbul and Prague will “not be held as scheduled”. “We will make a decision in the week ahead regarding the
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9:30 AM ET A European qualifying event for this year’s Tokyo Olympic boxing tournament will be closed to spectators from Monday due to the coronavirus outbreak, organisers said. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) boxing task force which is organising the event in the Copper Box at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park said the decision was
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8:30 AM BST James Harrington ESPN’s Six Nations Fantasy Rugby competition screeched to a not-unexpected halt on Friday when Wales vs Scotland was finally called off. The encounter in Cardiff had been the one game left standing, long after the other two scheduled matches of the final weekend, in Paris and Italy, had been postponed.
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7:30 AM ET Formula One drivers Max Verstappen and Lando Norris were racing on Sunday but, with the season-opening Australian Grand Prix cancelled due to the coronavirus, it was against invisible opponents on virtual racetracks. The world of esports came to the rescue in the absence of a race in Melbourne or indeed of any
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6:20 AM ET The McLaren team member who contracted the coronavirus on the eve of the Australian Grand Prix is “recovering well” and is now free of symptoms, team boss Zak Brown has confirmed. Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix was cancelled after news broke that a McLaren team member had tested positive for Covid-19 on the
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11:15 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA sent out a memo Sunday night giving its teams further instructions over how to handle the sudden and indefinite suspension of the NBA season — including allowing players the ability to travel out of market under certain conditions and extending indefinitely the ban on full team practices. With
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