Month: April 2020

5:45 PM ET Nebraska reserve quarterback Noah Vedral is transferring from the school. Vedral entered the NCAA’s transfer portal Tuesday as a graduate student and will have two years of eligibility left. He started two games last season for the Huskers, and also replaced injured starter Adrian Martinez during a win against Northwestern. Vedral followed
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5:10 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The Pirates are suspending retirement benefits for members of Pittsburgh’s baseball operations staff in an effort to cope with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. General manager Ben Cherington said Tuesday that the team has been searching for ways to find savings with the 2020 season on
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3:41 PM ET North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said that he expects one of NASCAR’s crown jewel events, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, to take place during its traditional Memorial Day weekend date of Sunday, May 24, “unless health conditions go down.” Cooper made the comments on Tuesday afternoon during his daily press
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3:20 PM ET Chief medical officers from major sports leagues participated in a call Tuesday with Seema Verma, who is a member of the White House coronavirus task force and administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. The call, according to a White House official, was to go over how sports plays a
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2:33 PM ET Major League Baseball is allowing teams to offer refunds to fans for games currently not being played due to the coronavirus pandemic. Previously, games were considered postponed, instead of canceled, allowing teams to hold on to revenue generated from ticket sales. But with little chance of MLB playing 162 games this season,
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1:22 PM ET Five-star point guard Daishen Nix is decommitting from UCLA and signing with the new G League pathway program, the league announced Tuesday. “I think it was the right thing for me because it was a family thing and a myself thing,” Nix told the Los Angeles Times. “Playing in G League is
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12:57 PM ET Formula One’s mandatory factory shutdown period has been extended into June. The coronavirus pandemic has indefinitely delayed the start of the season and there will be no racing until July at the earliest. F1 is hopeful of starting the season with behind-closed-doors races in Austria and Great Britain. American driver Juan Manuel
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10:59 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Wood, the Hampshire left-arm seamer, has revealed an 11-year fight against gambling addiction. Wood, who has won four white-ball trophies with Hampshire since making his first-team debut in 2010, has not placed a bet since December 2018 after a long battle against addiction. He has regularly suffered from long-term
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