Month: August 2020

7:00 AM ET Rick Tocchet was disgusted. The Arizona Coyotes, riding high after upsetting the Nashville Predators in the Stanley Cup qualification round, had squandered a chance to pull another shocker in Game 1 of their quarterfinal series against the Colorado Avalanche. “You gotta be able to make a 5-foot pass and support it. It
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Aug 13, 2020 Lewis Hamilton believes a proposal to stop teams using qualifying-specific engine modes is aimed at slowing Mercedes down, but says it will not have the desired effect. The FIA wrote to teams this week to notify them it is planning to outlaw high-power engine modes that are reserved for qualifying and very
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10:41 AM ET Mercedes Formula One boss Toto Wolff cast fresh doubt on his future on Friday while signalling that the champions were now prepared to sign a new deal with commercial rights holders Liberty Media. The Austrian had said at Silverstone last week that Mercedes were not ready to sign a new ‘Concorde Agreement’
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10:46 AM ET Tiger Woods has entered next week’s Northern Trust, the first of three FedEx Cup playoff events that will conclude the PGA Tour’s 2019-20 season. Although his commitment was expected, Woods waited until Friday’s last day to announce his intentions to play at TPC Boston in the second year of a system that
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10:19 AM ET The ATP on Friday issued a revised provisional calendar for the rest of 2020, highlighted by the Italian Open changing dates to take the place of the canceled Madrid Open. Play in Rome will now begin a week earlier than planned, on Sept. 14, the day after the US Open men’s final.
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2:39 PM ET Arturo Vidal warned Bayern Munich that Barcelona “aren’t a Bundesliga team” as the war of words between the two teams heated up ahead of Friday’s Champions League quarterfinal in Lisbon. Barca and Bayern are the only two previous winners still left in the competition but they go into the game in contrasting
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Aug 13, 2020 Nebraska has ended speculation about breaking from the Big Ten’s plan to postpone fall football. “The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a fully committed member of the Big Ten Conference,” chancellor Ronnie Green and president Ted Carter said in a statement. “It is an unparalleled athletic and academic alliance.” A joint statement from
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10:38 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Puff Daddy and Mase topped the Billboard Hot 100 charts with their smash song “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” the last time the San Antonio Spurs missed the NBA playoffs. That’s how long it’s been — way back in the 1996-97 season. The final buzzer sounded Thursday night with the
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