Arizona willing to host all MLB games
League cuts pay of its senior staff
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports
Conferences ask NCAA for relief
Relaxed requirements sought after
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports
Unfiltered Michael Jordan gets last word in ESPN’s ‘Last Dance’
Practice was over, and Michael Jordan swaggered over to the sideline with a camera crew in tow.
Chicago Bulls General Manager Jerry Krause was standing near a Gatorade cooler with...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports
Tour de France postponed by coronavirus
PARIS – After weeks of holding out hope that the Tour de France would be able to go ahead as planned, the world’s most famous cycling race was finally added to the list of sporting events po...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports
University of Cincinnati drops men’s soccer in virus fallout
CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati eliminated its men’s soccer program Tuesday as other colleges weighed cutbacks because of budget problems resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports
NFL, union approve virtual offseason workout program
The NFL and its players union have agreed to conduct “virtual” offseason workout programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic until every team is permitted to open its facilities.
Teams ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports
FIFA: International games could be off until 2021
Most international soccer might not be played until 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic travel restrictions and the need to give club competitions the chance to resume, a FIFA vice president sa...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports
XFL files for bankruptcy, cites COVID-19 crisis
The XFL filed for bankruptcy on Monday, likely spelling the end of the second iteration of the league.
The filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware estimates the organization h...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports
ESPN and NFL Network will combine for NFL draft telecast
NEW YORK – ESPN and NFL Network will join forces for this year’s NFL draft. They will produce a broadcast that will air on both networks over all three days.
The April 23-25 draft...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports
Tokyo 2020: ‘No B Plan’ for another Olympic Postponement
TOKYO – Tokyo organizers said Tuesday they have no “B Plan” in the event the Olympics need to be postponed again because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Masa Takaya, the spokesman fo...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports
For an Olympic canoeist, training alone its own kind of social distancing
His boat, an 11½-foot Vajda C1 MM racing canoe, stays strapped to the roof of his Volkswagen at all times, and most days Casey Eichfeld still manages to get out on the water. Social distanci...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports
Young’s sudden sayonara to Skyler the Skyhawk
Student mascot doesn’t get goodbye to Fort Lewis College fans he had hoped
DATE: Apr 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports
