Month: July 2020

1:05 PM ET NFL players took to Twitter on Sunday in a coordinated effort to urge the NFL to listen to its experts’ guidelines on safely opening training camps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Many of the players used the hashtag #WeWantToPlay to accompany their tweets. NFL Players Association president JC Tretter tweeted: “What you are
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1:24 PM BST England coach Eddie Jones has called on rugby union’s lawmakers to implement measures to speed up the game and increase fatigue, including reducing the number of permitted replacements in matches from eight to six. Jones said lengthy television reviews and debates with referees have provided players with extended breaks and prevented them
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12:26 PM ET Associated Press Sidney Crosby was two months removed from lifting the Stanley Cup when he turned his attention to winning another championship. It was early September 2016, and the Pittsburgh Penguins captain stepped on the ice in Ottawa for Canada’s training camp ahead of the World Cup of Hockey. Players had gone
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1:32 PM ET Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The first exhibition games of the NBA restart will go a little more quickly than usual. The NBA is tweaking the rules for those initial matchups, going with 10-minute quarters instead of the usual 12 minutes. The change is for several reasons, including not wanting
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10:56 AM ET Former Nebraska receiver JD Spielman, who led the Cornhuskers in receiving yards and touchdown catches in 2019, has transferred to TCU, sources confirmed to ESPN on Sunday. Spielman, a senior from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, will have one season of eligibility remaining. 247 Sports first reported Spielman’s decision. Spielman, 5 feet, 9 inches
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9:03 AM ET Max Verstappen crashed his Red Bull on the way to the starting grid for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver was on his lap from the pit lane back around the Hungaroring circuit to the start-finish straight. The circuit was wet from pre-race rain and the Dutchman lost control of
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6:03 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Busch celebrated a 10th NASCAR Xfinity Series victory at Texas Motor Speedway, and then had it taken away. Busch failed postrace tech inspection Saturday after finishing ahead of Austin Cindric, who was declared the winner for the third victory in a row after winning both
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