Month: April 2020

1:45 PM ET Associated Press So here’s a dose of realism — or surrealism — for the first video game tournament of the coronavirus pandemic involving professional tennis players: Thanks to Rafael Nadal‘s balky back, a match got postponed Monday. That bit of news from Day 1 at the controller-instead-of-racket Madrid Open came 24 hours
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11:58 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former NASCAR champion Matt Kenseth will again come out of retirement to compete for Chip Ganassi Racing as the replacement for fired driver Kyle Larson. Larson lost his job two weeks ago after using a racial slur during a live-streamed virtual race. Although Ganassi development driver Ross
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11:08 AM ET Associated Press A group of professional tennis players led by Dustin Brown will meet in a series of exhibition tournaments in Germany starting Friday. The live-streamed event will take place at an academy near the small town of Hohr-Grenzhausen. The men’s and women’s professional tours are currently suspended until July because of
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10:07 AM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas athletic director Jeff Long, football coach Les Miles and basketball coach Bill Self announced Monday they had taken a 10% salary reduction for the next six months in an effort to save the athletic department nearly $500,000. The move comes as the COVID-19 pandemic is putting
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9:37 AM ET When General Motors repurposed one of its dormant plants in Warren, Michigan, to produce masks for front-line workers, it needed some help for a crucial step: disinfecting. So the company turned to the hockey community for an assist. GM called the Ilitch family, which owns the Detroit Red Wings. Christopher Ilitch then
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8:59 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer The ATP and WTA tours are currently suspended due to the global coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn’t mean you can’t see your favorite tennis players working on their skills. Thanks to the wonder of the internet, stars like Roger Federer and Andy Murray have started their own viral challenges,
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