Major League Baseball will hold its Opening Day festivities on July 23 or 24 after players signed off on the health and safety protocols for a 60-game regular season on Tuesday. Players will report for preseason activities on July 1, and will prepare to play a season in which they […]
Nikola Jokic, two-time All-Star with the Denver Nuggets, tested positive for coronavirus in his home country of Serbia. Jokic came in contract with tennis star, Novak Djokovic, who also tested positive for COVID-19. Jokic, 25, encountered Djokovic in Belgrade. Jokic tested positive for coronavirus last week and he’s been asymptomatic. […]
The Major League Baseball season looks poised to begin around July 24, as owners have voted unanimously to implement a 60-game season under the March agreement between the league and the MLB Players Association. The league needs the MLBPA to sign off on health and safety protocols, and agree to […]
World No. 1 men’s tennis player Novak Djokovic announced Tuesday that both he and his wife tested positive for COVID-19 following his participation in the Adria Tennis Tour. Djokovic helped organize the Adria Tour, which held events in Belgrade and Zadar, Croatia over the past two weeks. Djokovic: Tour Organized […]
Multiple players and coaches have tested positive for COVID-19 following their participation in the Adria Tennis Tour exhibition event in Croatia last week, organized by Novak Djokovic. The tournament halted just before the final between Djokovic and Andrey Rublev, after participant Grigor Dimitrov reported that he tested positive for the […]
The growing number of COVID-19 cases in Florida is impacting the return-to-play plans of several major sports that have pinned their hopes on coming back either in part, or entirely, on the Sunshine State. All Major League Baseball teams temporarily closed their spring training facilities after multiple clubs reported positive […]
The National Basketball Coaches Association is concerned that some high-risk team staff won’t be able to participate in the NBA’s Orlando restart plan, an absence that could hurt their careers further down the line. That could potentially include some of the league’s older coaches, who could face unique restrictions and […]
To nobody’s surprise, Tiz the Law opened as your healthy 6/5 favorite for Saturday’s 152nd running of the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes. He’ll do so out of the eight post in the 10-horse field, drawn Wednesday afternoon at Belmont Park. And Tiz the Law will do so as the only […]
The WWE temporarily halted production on Tuesday after one of its wrestlers tested positive for COVID-19, prompting the company to test all of its employees for the virus. The WWE confirmed that a performer in its developmental pool tested positive, and that the individual was in the audience during the […]
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is casting doubt that there will be a Major League Baseball season in 2020 after players rejected the league’s latest offer. On Monday, the commissioner’s office told the MLBPA that it won’t schedule a season unless the players waive their right to argue that the league […]
The United States Tennis Association plans to hold the US Open at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York this summer, though many top players are skeptical of the idea. ESPN reported Monday that both the ATP and WTA support the USTA plan, citing a source […]
John Harbaugh aired his frustrations with the NFL’s COVID-19 guidelines during a radio interview on Thursday, saying that while he’ll do as much as possible to protect the health and safety of his players, the current rules are too strict. The Baltimore Ravens head coach told 105.7 The Fan that […]
A group of NBA players has raised concerns about returning to play in Orlando next month, though nobody has officially petitioned to opt-out of the season resumption, according to an ESPN report. ESPN cited sources who said that a “faction†of about 40 to 50 players expressed uncertainty about the […]
UFC president Dana White confirmed on Tuesday that the company’s so-called Fight Island is located in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, and that the UFC will hold four events at the complex in July. Fight Island is located entirely on Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island, which features a number […]
Major League Baseball has reached out to players with a new return-to-play plan for the 2020 season on Monday, offering a 76-game season where players could make as much as 75% of their prorated salaries, according to sources cited by ESPN. The proposal would guarantee only a portion of those […]
NBA commissioner Adam Silver says that some older coaches may not be able to sit on the bench when the league returns to action due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19. Silver made his comments on Thursday’s episode of Inside the NBA, suggesting that he had an interest in […]
Major League Baseball has rejected the latest offer from the MLB Players Association for a 114-game regular season, according to multiple media reports. The Athletic first reported the news, saying that MLB informed the union that it doesn’t intend to make a counteroffer to start the 2020 season. Player Pay […]
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the WNBA plans to hold its season in a single location, provided the league plays at all in 2020. According to the report, the MGM Resorts in Las Vegas and the IMG Academy in Florida are the leading contenders to host the WNBA. Engelbert […]
You can call what transpires today at Belmont Park a serendipitous collision of circumstances. Belmont Park opens for spectator-free racing Wednesday – 5 ½ weeks later than planned due to the coronavirus pandemic. And the star of the third race of a COVID-19-delayed meet is a 2-year-old horse named Fauci. […]
Minor League Baseball teams collectively released hundreds of players on Thursday, the first wave in what could be a massive number of cuts throughout baseball. More than a thousand players could lose their jobs as Minor League Baseball teams deal with the reality that they likely won’t be playing games […]
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