8:30 AM ET The sheer volume of questions about the NHL’s season restart this summer can leave one feeling woozy. Will teams and players come back? Can they come back? Should they come back? And that’s not even getting into the mysteries concerning locations, schedules and the hundreds of health and safety considerations necessarily for
Month: June 2020
6:55 AM ET The NBA’s return-to-play plan, which includes a likely 22-team field competing in Orlando, Florida, in regular-season games and a play-in tournament to decide postseason berths, is expected to pass in a Thursday board of governors vote. The Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic were holding the No. 8 seeds in their respective conferences
10:00 AM ET Amy K. Nelson Editor’s note: This story on Armando Galarraga’s almost-perfect game was originally published on Jan. 5, 2011. Today is the 10-year anniversary of the game. PORTLAND, Ore. — Jim Joyce’s garage smells of old cigarettes and motor oil. It’s early December, and he is at home playing solitaire on his
8:14 PM IST The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) organisers have submitted a proposal to Keith Rowley, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, to stage the entirety of this year’s tournament in the country, starting in mid-August. Last week, Rowley told the local press that he was waiting for a formal approach from the CPL,
7:30 AM ET Only a few years ago, Derrick Mains and his staff were fighting an uphill battle trying to pitch golf courses on the idea of a single-rider golf cart. The president at Phat Scooter, which produces a golf-specific scooter meant for one rider, Mains remembers going to the PGA Merchandise Show three years
6:00 AM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Las Vegas Raiders are in the ultimate hurry-up-and-wait mode. Sure, they officially rebranded themselves with a renaming ceremony in the shadow of Allegiant Stadium on Jan. 22. And plans were for the team to hold its draft, rookie minicamp and OTAs at its Alameda facility before holding mandatory
8:35 AM ET New York Rangers prospect K’Andre Miller addressed the racist treatment he received while being introduced to the team’s fans in April, saying it was another example of his challenge to be accepted as a black hockey player. “I struggle because I’ve never been fully accepted by either the black community or the
9:23 AM ET In 2007, the WTA announced that upon revisiting the rankings data for 1976, Evonne Goolagong — a multiple Grand Slam singles champion who had never reached the No. 1 ranking — should have been in the top spot ahead of Chris Evert for two weeks in 1976, officially altering the record 31
12:02 AM ET The UFC has a newly minted welterweight contender. Gilbert Burns defeated former champion Tyron Woodley via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-44, 50-44) in a complete performance Saturday night in the main event of UFC Las Vegas. Burns nearly finished Woodley in the opening minutes and never let his foot off the gas pedal,
5:09 AM ET Formula One has announced the first eight dates of its rescheduled calendar as the sport aims to return to racing on July 5 in Austria. 1 Related The first ten races of the original 2020 calendar were either cancelled or postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, forcing F1 to reschedule as many