Month: May 2021

Cricket

SLC lines up August window for LPL’s second season

News Franchise tournament to be staged immediately after India’s white-ball tour Sri Lanka Cricket have announced that the second season of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) will be played from July 30 to August 22, with further details about the franchise tournament yet to be confirmed. The window falls immediately after Sri Lanka’s home series
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NBA

Jazz say Mitchell (ankle) to miss final 3 games

7:51 PM ET All-Star shooting guard Donovan Mitchell will not play in the Utah Jazz‘s final three regular-season games as he continues to recover from a sprained right ankle, the team announced Tuesday night. The determination was made after Mitchell was reevaluated by the team’s medical staff Tuesday. He will continue treatment in Salt Lake
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Tennis

French Open allows 1 hour out of bubble per day

10:01 AM ET Associated Press Players at the French Open will be allowed a daily one-hour window outside their social-distancing bubble, tournament organizers said Wednesday. Guy Forget, the director of the clay-court Grand Slam, said players will have the chance to get out for a jog or enjoy some fresh air during their stay in
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NFL

Saints superfan’s dad gets 8 years in fraud case

7:04 PM ET Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana man whose seriously ill son gained fame in New Orleans for his devotion to the Saints football team was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for drug trafficking and for fraudulently capitalizing on his son’s illness with a phony charity. Jordy Robertson, 37, was
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MMA

Ex-UFC champ Silva says MMA career likely over

8:05 AM ET Anderson Silva, one of the greatest to compete in the cage, says he thinks he has fought in mixed martial arts for the final time. The former longtime UFC middleweight champion told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in an interview published Wednesday that he likely is done with MMA following his release from the
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Golf

PGA Tour best bets: AT&T Byron Nelson

8:00 AM ET Coming off last week’s Wells Fargo Championship (won by Rory McIlroy, who was picked by betting deputy editor David Bearman to win at 18-1), the PGA Tour heads to McKinney, Texas, for the AT&T Byron Nelson for a tuneup before the PGA Championship. This year’s event is moving to TPC at Craig
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Formula 1

FIA to clamp down on ‘bendy wings’

4:20 AM ET Formula One’s governing body has warned teams it will introduce new rear wing flexibility tests next month amid suspicions of rule bending. 1 Related Mercedes’ seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton flagged up the issue after qualifying for last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, which he won. “The Red Bulls are really fast
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