Month: June 2020

6:54 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Major League Baseball has submitted a plan to the Canadian government to play in Toronto this year and health authorities are examining it. Anna Maddison, a spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada, said Wednesday the restart plan is being reviewed. “The resumption of activities in Canada
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4:38 PM ET Associated Press The University of Northern Colorado will discontinue the men’s and women’s tennis programs as part of a cost-saving effort due to budget shortfalls created by the coronavirus pandemic. The school located in Greeley, Colorado, will now sponsor 17 intercollegiate athletic programs, including nine women’s sports. Northern Colorado says it will
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1:46 PM ET Bubba Wallace is thankful that a noose found in his garage at Talladega Superspeedway wasn’t intended for him, but he doesn’t think the ensuing investigation was an overreaction. “Are we hypersensitive to everything that’s going on in the world now? Absolutely,” Wallace, NASCAR’s only Black full-time driver, told ESPN’s First Take on
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2:38 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The U.S. Tennis Association changed its plans and now will include wheelchair competition at this year’s scaled-down US Open after athletes complained about the original decision to drop their event. The USTA announced Wednesday that wheelchair tennis will be played at Flushing Meadows from Sept. 10-13, the
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12:59 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning reopened their training facility Wednesday, a source confirmed to ESPN. The news comes five days after the team announced that three players and additional staffers tested positive for coronavirus. General manager Julien BriseBois said last week that the players who tested positive were self-isolating and “are asymptomatic other
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