3:27 PM ET Former Michigan football player Chuck Christian filed a lawsuit against the university’s regents last week, making him the first named plaintiff in the burgeoning legal action regarding the alleged sexual abuse of former team doctor Robert Anderson. Christian, who played tight end for the Wolverines in the late 1970s and early 1980s,
9:29 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Bao Nguyen loved to watch movies while he was growing up, but as a child of the 1980s, the options were not as robust as they are in 2020. Nguyen remembers stumbling upon a film from a decade before he was born, the Bruce Lee martial arts classic “Enter the
3:01 PM ET Associated Press Pocono Raceway will hold its NASCAR weekend without fans. The Cup Series is scheduled to race June 27-28 and Truck and second-tier Xfinity races also will be held that weekend. Pocono said in a message to fans “it will certainly miss your passion, laughs, cheers, and smiles as the green
1:38 PM ET Associated Press The NCAA released a long and detailed plan Friday to help schools bring athletes back to campus during a pandemic. The Resocialization of Collegiate Sports: Action Plan Considerations was announced as schools across the country prepare for the return of football players as early as June 8. The NCAA’s Division
1:36 PM BST Resuming training is safer than visiting a supermarket and some Gallagher Premiership players and coaches are “finding all the reasons” to avoid returning to play amid the coronavirus pandemic, Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter said on Thursday. Exeter were top of the standings when the season was suspended in March
12:09 AM IST Furloughed county cricketers have been left frustrated by the specifics of the UK government’s job retention scheme, having been advised by their counties that they should not use net facilities at local clubs despite the fact recreational players are now allowed to. All but two of the 18 first-class counties – Lancashire
10:54 AM ET Associated Press Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev and Nick Kyrgios will play exhibition tennis matches in Berlin in July amid the coronavirus pandemic. One exhibition event will run from July 13-15 on grass and another on a hard court in a hangar in the city’s closed Tempelhof airport from July 17-19. Each tournament
11:11 AM ET Roger Federer has taken over as the highest-paid athlete in Forbes annual earnings report, topping Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi who have held the No. 1 spot in three of the last four years. Federer earned $106 million pre-tax, edging out Ronaldo by about $1 million to take over No. 1. According
8:35 AM ET Steve KimESPN A full slate of fight cards are being lined up as boxing is poised to resume June 9. One key issue fighters are facing amid the coronavirus pandemic is a new reality for the money they’ll earn each time they step foot in the ring. For the time being, fighters
7:36 AM ET Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have always made it clear this new partnership in made-for-TV matches would not be a one-time thing. On Sunday, they gave us the second installment, adding Tom Brady and Peyton Manning to the mix for The Match: Champions for Charity, which raised $20 million for coronavirus relief.