10:33 AM ET Associated Press The R&A is postponing three amateur golf championships scheduled for June, including the Curtis Cup. The Curtis Cup was to be played June 12-14 at Conwy Golf Club in Wales. The R&A and USGA say the matches for female amateurs from the U.S. against a team from Britain and Ireland
Month: April 2020
3:22 PM BST With rugby facing an indefinite hiatus due to the coronavirus, professional players are keeping fit from their homes and trying not to lapse into off-season mode. In England, the Gallagher Premiership is postponed until the weekend of April 24-26. As rugby waits for that deadline to likely shift further into the summer,
9:51 AM ET In the 2016 NBA Finals, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers became the first team in NBA history to overcome a 3-1 Finals deficit, beating the 73-win Golden State Warriors to give the city of Cleveland its first major professional sports championship in 52 years. To do so, the Cavs needed to
8:38 AM ET Twenty-to-one. Those were the New England Patriots‘ odds to win the Super Bowl entering last season’s playoffs. They were the longest Super Bowl odds the Patriots had faced in a decade. Flash-forward three months: Tom Brady is in Tampa Bay, while Bill Belichick remains in New England with an uncertain quarterback situation
8:00 AM ET The New York Rangers‘ most significant recent free-agent acquisition might not have been superstar winger and MVP front-runner Artemi Panarin. Instead, their best signing might turn out to be someone who didn’t score a single goal — but still chewed and clawed his way into their hearts. The Blueshirts became the first
9:00 AM ET Willie Mays was still finding himself as a player when he departed the New York Giants in late May of 1952. There was no doubt he’d already displayed one of the best skill sets anyone had seen on a Major League Baseball field, but he was very much still in the process
8:19 AM ET A federal judge has ruled that swing coach Hank Haney’s lawsuit against the PGA Tour can proceed and denied the tour’s motion to dismiss the complaint, in which Haney claims the tour pressured SiriusXM Radio to suspend him and then terminate him from hosting his radio show after his comments about women’s
12:28 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq has called for a “fair and equal” resolution to the World Test Championship when cricket finally resumes even if it means extending the tournament, warning a shortened competition would fail to give a “true picture” of the standings. With cricket, like nearly all major sports and
6:12 AM ET It remains to be seen whether Formula One manages to arrange a championship season in 2020 once the world starts to return to normality after the coronavirus pandemic. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss the latest F1 news amid the coronavirus pandemic and reveal their favourite of the paddock’s most
7:18 AM BST New Zealand Rugby has offered a grant of $[NZ]250,000 to each of the country’s five Super Rugby teams to help them get through the next three months while the game remains suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. The intercontinental Super Rugby competition was shut down after round seven when the New Zealand