Month: May 2020

7:59 AM ET Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush voiced strong concerns over the NCAA’s recent support of a player endorsement plan, saying that paying college athletes for their names and likenesses is “going to destroy some people.” Bush, whose outstanding career at USC was marred by his eventual forfeiture of the 2005 Heisman Trophy, touched
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9:03 AM ET Europe’s top two club basketball competitions have been terminated this season without naming any winners due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers EuroLeague Basketball said on Monday. “Having explored every possible option, the Executive Board has made the decision to cancel the 2019-20 EuroLeague and EuroCup,” the organising body said in a statement.
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9:03 AM ET New Zealand will stage a team-based tennis tournament for local-based men’s players from June 3, organisers said on Monday. The event will mark the southern hemisphere’s first professional competition since the coronavirus pandemic brought global sport to a halt. All 112 matches of the “NZ Premier League” will be played in Auckland
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7:58 AM ET World No. 27, Nikoloz Basilashvili, has been charged with assaulting his former wife, his lawyer Irma Chkadua said. The Georgian has denied allegations that he attacked his former wife in front of their five-year-old son and he has been released on $26,000 bail. The preliminary court hearing is scheduled for July 16.
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12:22 AM ET Brad Keselowski held off Jimmy Johnson, Martin Truex Jr., Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman, among others, to win the weather-delayed Coca-Cola 600 in overtime Sunday night in Concord, North Carolina. In another NASCAR race held without fans, this one at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, Keselowski won the circuit’s longest event of the
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4:01 PM ET Williams driver George Russell won the Virtual Monaco Grand Prix by 39 seconds as the tight street circuit resulted in a race of utter carnage among his rival drivers. The event was held in lieu of the real Monaco Grand Prix, which was scheduled for this weekend before the coronavirus pandemic forced
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