7:02 PM ET Associated Press PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan — Fred Sasakamoose, one of the first Indigenous players in the National Hockey League, has died after fighting COVID-19. He was 86. Sasakamoose’s son, Neil, said in a video posted on Facebook that his father died Tuesday in Prince Albert. “This COVID virus just did so much
6:05 PM ET No. 18 USC will resume practice Wednesday, a day after a practice was canceled and the team facility was closed after a player tested positive for COVID-19. Contact tracing was conducted and the players, coaches and staff underwent PCR tests in response to the positive case, the school said. One additional player
Nov 24, 2020 The Atlanta Hawks announced Tuesday night that they have signed restricted free-agent guard Bogdan Bogdanovic. The announcement came after the Sacramento Kings declined to match the Hawks’ four-year, $72 million offer sheet for Bogdanovic. The Kings’ front office had labored over the decision the past two days but kept coming back to
3:51 PM ET Marc Gasol admits that walking away from the Toronto Raptors — the franchise that delivered him the first and only championship of his 12-year career two seasons ago — was painful, even though it meant he was joining the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. “It was tough,” Gasol said Wednesday, conducting his
Nov 21, 2020 Not long after Leeds United established themselves as one of English football’s powerhouses in the early 1970s, then-manager Don Revie engaged in a public relations drive to change the club’s image. In an effort to rid themselves of the tag “Dirty Leeds,” which followed the club due to their combative and confrontational
12:56 PM ET The Baltimore Ravens–Pittsburgh Steelers game has been moved from Thanksgiving night to Sunday afternoon, the NFL announced Wednesday. The game was moved after positive coronavirus tests for a number of Ravens players. Seven Baltimore players — running backs Mark Ingram and J.K. Dobbins, quarterback Trace McSorley, center Matt Skura, guard Patrick Mekari,
1:40 PM ET Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU officials have begun meeting with experts from a law firm investigating the university’s handling of reported sexual and domestic assault cases. In a published letter to members of the LSU community, interim president Thomas C. Galligan Jr. and athletic director Scott Woodward said the hiring
Nov 23, 2020 New Golden State Warriors swingman Kelly Oubre Jr. had a parting shot for Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver on the day he was officially introduced as a member of what was his third team in just over a week. Oubre, who was acquired by the Warriors in a deal with the Oklahoma
2:04 PM ET New York Islanders defenseman Johnny Boychuk announced his retirement Wednesday due to an eye injury suffered during the 2019-20 NHL season. “I don’t even think it was a decision. When you play with it and realize there’s something wrong, and then you go and get tests, it really wasn’t a decision; it
7:32 PM GMT Yorkshire have committed to appointing a Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as part of the club’s efforts to “improve inclusion across all forms and levels of the game”. The club has recently been rocked by claims of racism from former player, Azeem Rafiq, and have launched an investigation to consider the