Less than five weeks after pushing football and other fall sports to spring in the name of player safety during the pandemic, the conference changed course Wednesday and said it plans to begin its season the weekend of Oct. 23-24.
The once-reluctant league brought racial injustice to the forefront on the NFL’s first full slate of games.
Seaver, the galvanizing force who steered the New York Mets from the National League cellar to a stunning World Series title in 1969, died Monday from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19.
At a time of racial reckoning, the longtime coach says, “No more being quiet, no more being afraid to talk the topics, no more ‘I’m a little bit uncomfortable, I might lose my job.’”
Players pledged to finish the postseason even as they wrestled with their emotions about wanting to bring change in their communities.
While players and teams from baseball, the WNBA, MLS and tennis sat out their competitions Wednesday night, NBA players and coaches met for nearly three hours in a Disney hotel to determine next steps.
The Pac-12 said its season would be postponed until the spring, while the Big Ten said it will explore a spring season.
Commentary: Sports can't be played safely in a country that doesn't value public health
The players’ precarious health and postponement of two games at the last-minute raised anew doubts about the league's ability to finish the season during a pandemic.
With every pitch, with every swing, with every inning in empty parks across the majors, this looks, sounds and feels like the most bizarre season in big league history.
The kraken — akin to a monstrous squid — was mentioned in an Alfred Lord Tennyson sonnet from 1830 and later popularized in the 1953 novel “The Kraken Wakes” by John Wyndham.
The MLB began its most bizarre season ever Thursday night, a 60-game sprint rather than the traditional 162-game marathon.
There have been repeated calls in the past for the team to change its name.
In one of the first Major League Baseball games since sports shut down after the novel coronavirus outbreak, San Francisco Giants Manager Gabe Kapler and several players and staff took a knee during the national anthem.
Allegations over more than a decade range from unwelcome overtures to exhortations to wear revealing clothing.
The NFL franchise bowed to recent pressure from sponsors and decades of criticism that the name is offensive to Native Americans.
The National Hockey League and the NHL Players' Association on Monday announced reaching a tentative deal on a return to play format which is coupled with the two sides agreeing to a memorandum of understanding on a four-year extension of the collective bargaining agreement.
The said recent events around the U.S. and feedback from the community prompted the formal review.
Fans hoping to see a game in person may have to settle for places like the Bleacher Bar, the Rogers Centre hotel or the Wrigley rooftops, pressing their face up to the windows or squinting through fences like the Knothole Gangs of yore.
