Month: April 2020

2:12 PM ET Hall of Fame defensive end Willie Davis, who thrived with the Green Bay Packers in the Vince Lombardi era, died Wednesday at age 85. Davis had battled health issues recently. He was part of five championship teams, including the first two Super Bowls. He was enshrined in Canton in 1981 and into
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1:03 PM ET Ohio State coach Ryan Day said all possibilities should be considered for college football to happen this year, including playing a shortened season that would be conference-only games. “Any football is better than no football,” Day said Wednesday. “We’ll do whatever we need to do. We’ll make it work — whatever they
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12:01 PM ET Steve Fainaru Close ESPN Senior Writer Winner, 2008 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting Four-time first-place winner in Associated Press Sports Editors competition Co-author of New York Times best-selling book, “League of Denial” Mark Fainaru-Wada Close ESPN Staff Writer Investigative reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit since 2007 Co-author of New York
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11:00 AM ET Former Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Damaso Garcia died Wednesday in the Dominican Republic at the age of 63, his son, Damaso Garcia Jr., told ESPN. Garcia played 11 seasons in the majors and was a two-time All-Star (1984, ’85). He played seven seasons for the Blue Jays and in 1982 won
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10:45 AM ET Associated Press Speedway Motorsports, owner and operator of eight tracks that host NASCAR’s top Cup Series, has laid off 180 employees and furloughed 100 as part of a company restructuring during the sports shutdown. Speedway Motorsports owns the Atlanta, Bristol, Charlotte, Kentucky, Las Vegas, New Hampshire, Sonoma and Texas tracks. The coronavirus
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10:49 AM ET Associated Press Novak Djokovic has been praised by the director general of the local health authority in Bergamo for his donation to help control the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. Peter Assembergs says “we never expected to see on our bank account a donation from such a prestigious person.” Assembergs says “reading among
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