Cricket West Indies (CWI) has approved the scheduled tour of England in principle following a meeting via teleconference on Thursday. The Test series, part of the World Test Championship, was scheduled to start from June 4 but was pushed back because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The boards are now looking at an early July start,
Cincinnati Bengals rookie quarterback Joe Burrow said the “black community needs our help” in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in police custody Monday night in Minneapolis. “They have been unheard for far too long,” Burrow, the Heisman Trophy winner and No. 1 overall draft pick, said Friday on Twitter. “Open your ears, listen,
Playing baseball is hard. Drafting baseball players might be even harder. To call the MLB draft a crapshoot isn’t exactly accurate because scouts and front offices actually do a really good job. It’s just that invariably there are going to be a lot of misses along the way. What follows is a list of 10
The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Bristol, Tennessee, on Sunday for the Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes 500. Chase Elliott took home an elusive checkered flag in Thursday’s Alsco Uniforms 500 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Who will win Sunday’s event (3:30 p.m. ET) at Bristol Motor Speedway? ESPN.com NASCAR senior writer Ryan McGee, Stats
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker says the state’s five professional sports teams — the Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins, New England Patriots and New England Revolution — can resume practicing at their respective facilities on June 6. But Baker made clear the reopening of those facilities must be done in accordance with the health
The Power 5 conference commissioners are asking Congress to move forward with federal legislation regarding compensation for college athletes. The commissioners of the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern conferences sent a letter dated May 23 to congressional leaders, as first reported by Stadium. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the
9:28 PM ET Steve KimESPN A 10-round junior welterweight matchup between Ivan Baranchyk and Jose Zepeda has been finalized for July 7 in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Baranchyk, 27, (20-1, 13 KOs), the former IBF junior welterweight titleholder, is coming off a fourth-round stoppage of Gabriel Bracero in October. His lone loss
The chances of playing the U.S. Open in New York in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic seemed remote in April, when the tournament was rescheduled from June to September. But the United States Golf Association is now optimistic about keeping the championship at Winged Foot Golf Club in suburban New York City and remains
New Denver Broncos running back Melvin Gordon said he’s not concerned if fans can’t be in the stands when the NFL season begins because he has already dealt with that. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, playing games without fans in attendance is one possibility for the 2020 NFL season. During an interview with former NFL
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 Dragon.” The movie made an
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 due to the
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 and Surrey are
It’s easy to appreciate the magic of the 2019 college football season, especially now. It seems a lot longer than four months ago that LSU’s Joe Burrow was torching Clemson to put an exclamation point on perhaps the greatest single season by a quarterback. As June edges closer, and there start to be signs of
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 past four years. Federer earned $106 million pre-tax, edging out Ronaldo by about $1 million to take over No. 1. According to the report,
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s shortened amateur draft will remain at the MLB Network studios in Secaucus, New Jersey, for the first round on June 10. MLB shortened the selections to five rounds and 160 picks in response to the coronavirus pandemic, by far the fewest number of picks since the draft started in
English authorities hoping to stage the first “bio-secure” Test matches since cricket shut down in the face of the coronavirus outbreak remain hopeful that the ICC will alter playing regulations to allow Covid-19 substitutions, according to Steve Elworthy, the ECB’s director of special operations. Earlier this month, the ICC’s cricket committee recommended against allowing such
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 to 15 on grass and another on a hard court in a hangar in the city’s closed Tempelhof airport from July 17 to 19. Each tournament will
One day in the summer of 1987, Paul Smith found himself in the England dressing room at Edgbaston during a rain break. Smith, a Warwickshire player, was 23 at the time. He had scored 1,500 first-class runs as an opening batsmen the previous season and, as a bowler, had been dubbed “the fastest white man
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