10:05 AM ET Bobby Marks NBA teams will withhold more than $30 million from player paychecks on Friday, as players receive their first salary reduction since the league and union agreed to a plan to temporarily cut pay by 25%. But six of the NBA’s top 10 earners this season — LeBron James, Stephen Curry,
10:44 PM ET Sean Payton is not surprised that the NFL plans to end its one-year experiment of allowing pass interference calls to be reviewed by replay. Appearing on Baltimore’s 105.7 The Fan on Thursday, Payton said it became clear last season that “we weren’t prepared to enforce that and monitor that the correct way.”
7:19 AM ET Associated Press Padraig Harrington was planning to bring a 150-strong traveling party with him to the Ryder Cup, giving the people closest to the European captain something of an inside experience of one of the great events in golf. “I’m now down to four, something like that,” Harrington said, rather dolefully, as
The closed net facilities in Victoria Park, London © Andrew Miller Club cricketers in England will be permitted to return to the nets for outdoor practice under strictly limited conditions, according to new guidance from the ECB, issued in the wake of the UK government’s partial lifting of the Covid-19 lockdown. The new measures apply
11:53 AM IST Over the next week or so, professional cricketers around Australia will dig out their kit bags and embark on a lengthy pre-season, which will likely have a very different feel from the usual as sport adapts to the new normal following the Covid-19 pandemic. The centrally contracted Australia players come off annual
3:45 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff India coach Ravi Shastri believes cricket should look at keeping world events on hold and instead prioritise domestic and bilateral cricket to get players back in the groove once sport resumes. Looking at it from India’s perspective, he prefers the IPL and bilaterals to take precedence once the federal government
2:38 AM ET This year’s Tour of Britain scheduled for September has been cancelled and the same route will be used for the 2021 edition, organisers said on Thursday. A statement read: “The decision has been taken in light of the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, which makes continuing with the planning and organisation
12:32 AM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Pepper Rodgers, a colorful personality who helped Georgia Tech to an unbeaten season as a player in 1952 and went on to coach the Yellow Jackets as well as Kansas, UCLA and Memphis teams in both the USFL and CFL, died Thursday. He was 88. A statement from
10:55 PM ET Commissioner Rob Manfred on Thursday night outlined the coronavirus-testing protocols Major League Baseball is proposing, telling CNN that frequent tests will be key to the sport’s restart and that a positive test won’t mean shutting down the entire team. Players who do test positive will be quarantined until they have two negative
6:00 AM ET The NFL draft is over and free agency has wound down. With the dust beginning to settle on roster changes, and the Cleveland Browns in the middle of their virtual offseason, here’s a projection of where their offensive depth chart stands (starters in bold): QB: Baker Mayfield, Case Keenum Every major move