Month: June 2020

12:48 PM ET At least two Tampa Bay Buccaneers players now have tested positive for COVID-19, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. In a statement, the Bucs acknowledged positive tests, but did not state whether the results were for players or staff. “The names of those impacted, as well as any additional information related
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3:48 PM ET LAS VEGAS — From the beginning of 2018 until today — a span that encompasses 30 months — the UFC has promoted exactly four heavyweight title fights. In other words, not even two per year. That kind of inactivity at the top of a weight class produced a logjam — a bottleneck
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4:06 PM ET A large number of LSU football players have been placed into quarantine in an effort to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, sources confirmed to ESPN. The news was first reported by Sports Illustrated, which placed the total number of players in quarantine at 30 or more. However sources told ESPN that
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4:19 PM ET ESPN News Services NASCAR’s return to racing shifts to Talladega Superspeedway, with new rules in place after Ryan Newman‘s frightful crash in the season-opening Daytona 500. The Alabama track will admit up to 5,000 fans Sunday — with at least two organizations facing a coronavirus scare — while NASCAR will be on
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10:51 AM ET NBA Hall of Famer Wayne Embry, who was the first African American to become a general manager in pro sports, believes players should use their voices by continuing to play during the current protests while supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. “I’ve always been a proponent of sports being a model of
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