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Titans' Ryan Tannehill: 'People are waking up' to injustice NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Like many other professional athletes, Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill has taken to social media to show that he's taking a stand against police brutality and social injustice. The death of George Floyd has left a different ...
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Lions' Justin Coleman says friend Ahmaud Arbery's life had a purpose Justin Coleman was in college at Tennessee when he came home to Brunswick, Georgia, and while hanging out with friends got into a conversation with one of his closer family friends, Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery, his football and track teammate, had just ...
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Colts QB Philip Rivers Quickly Settling in Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS — Say this for Philip Rivers, he's not wasting any time getting acclimated with Indianapolis. Rivers and his wife Tiffany moved their nine children from the Florida Panhandle to the Northside of his new NFL address about a week ago, which the ...
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Hawks' Trae Young 'frustrated' but understanding of 22-team restart Trae Young had hoped the Atlanta Hawks would be included in the restart of the NBA season. Instead, 22 teams were invited to resume playing at a bubble site in Orlando -- and the Hawks were not one of them. "I was mad," Young said on a video call ...
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Bruce Arians considering quarantining one quarterback, could other teams do the same? As the NFL prepares for a return to action in the coming months amid the coronavirus pandemic, numerous measures will be put in place to try and ensure the safety of the players. Testing and forcing separation in locker rooms will be essential to stopping or ...
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Kirksey Joining Packers 'Feels Like Cinderella Story' GREEN BAY, Wis. – In 2016 and 2017 with the Cleveland Browns, Christian Kirksey was one of the most productive linebackers in the NFL. He had 281 tackles during that span, a figure that trailed only Seattle star Bobby Wagner. Between those seasons, he ...
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What MLS is Back means in our changed world | Andrew Wiebe Major League Soccer is coming back. I've waited almost three months to write those words. We've all waited that long to find out how and when our game, our clubs, our league will emerge from a global pandemic that's thrown our lives into varying degrees of ...
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Players who will shape 2020 NFL season: We may not have seen the true ceiling of Patrick Mahomes I like to think of every NFL season as a separate story within the larger book of the league's history. Not every paragraph from each story is etched into our memory. Years later, we don't recall every detail from an NFL season. However, just like any good story, ...
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USC welcomes back Reggie Bush after 10 years in NCAA exile Reggie Bush was the centerpiece of Southern California's last football dynasty. He inspired players to become Trojans and continued to be adored by USC fans while spending a decade in NCAA-mandated exile from the college. USC welcomed back Bush ...
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Random Thoughts: Tua Talk, Shorter Preseason and Kudos to the Dolphins We'll start with Tua Tagovailoa because, well, he's Tua. If it's not clear by now that Chris Simms does not like Tua Tagovailoa as a quarterback, you haven't been paying attention. That said, it clearly should not be surprising to see his take that Jarrett Stidham, ...
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Minnesota Timberwolves executive calls more for more diversity in pro sports The Minnesota Timberwolves hope their words and actions will yield to various reforms regarding police brutality and racial inequality after an unarmed black man (George Floyd) was killed by a local white police officer (Derek Chauvin). They also hope that ...
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NFL, Black College Football HOF to host QB Coaching Summit June 22-23 The NFL announced Wednesday that the third annual Quarterback Coaching Summit will take place virtually from June 22-23. The program, which is in partnership with the Black College Football Hall of Fame, will feature sessions and panels led by NFL ...
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Charles Schwab Challenge predictions, odds 2020: Kevin Na, Gary Woodland picks from PGA insider It will be a strange new world for golfers when the PGA Tour returns on Thursday with the 2020 Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth. Social distancing will prohibit fans from attending the historic event at Colonial Country Club and television resources will ...
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NBA will create panel of physicians to evaluate health risk for coaches entering Disney bubble, per report One of the major issues that the NBA has grappled with in constructing its Disney World bubble has been figuring out who it can and cannot medically protect within it. A number of NBA head coaches, for instance, are 65 or older. Those in that age group are ...
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Rockets GM Daryl Morey: I've let James Harden down by not helping him win title Since joining the Rockets, James Harden has received 47% of possible MVP-voting points. The leaderboard during that seven-season span: LeBron James: 53%; James Harden: 47%; Stephen Curry: 32%; Kevin Durant: 26%. (Harden will almost certainly ...
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Claudell Washington dies at 65 Former Atlanta Braves outfielder Claudell Washington died Wednesday morning at the age of 65. Washington was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017. He had stopped treatments in January 2018, according to a report from the Athletic. The Braves signed ...
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How will MLB Draft picks work in 2020? Explaining the format changes for shortened baseball draft From Omaha to living rooms, the MLB Draft is going on as planned. There are many changes coming to the 2020 MLB Draft, most of those changes due to the coronavirus pandemic that has stopped the sport globally. The most forward-facing change to the ...
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Jesuit's Mick Abel expected to go in the first round of tonight's MLB draft Jesuit High School right-handed pitcher Mick Abel is expected to be drafted in the middle of the first round in tonight's Major League Baseball draft. Abel, a 6-5, 198-pound flamethrower, led the Crusaders to the state championship last season and his team ...
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Jets' CJ Mosley says he is healthy, will be ready when training camp begins C.J. Mosley expects to participate fully when the Jets open training camp at the end of July. The four-time Pro Bowl linebacker said he has been fully cleared after undergoing core-muscle surgery in December. "I'm cleared to do everything," Mosley said on a ...
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Shams: Warriors Will 'Look Hard' at Packaging 2020 1st-Round Draft Pick in Trade The Golden State Warriors could land the No. 1 pick of the 2020 NBA draft, but they could use that pick as trade bait instead of finding a future star. "They're going to look hard at maybe packaging the pick," NBA insider Shams Charania said on Complex's ...
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Jason Heyward reportedly lists posh Gold Coast condo for nearly $7.6 million Jason Heyward listed his Gold Coast condo for nearly $7.6 million on Tuesday, according to the Chicago Tribune. Latest Cubs Talk. Jason Heyward's Gold Coast condo for sale, comes with sweet perks · MLB-MLBPA negotiations for 2020 'goes back to the ...
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US team for Ryder Cup has 6 qualifiers, 6 captain's picks U.S. captain Steve Stricker would pick half of his 12-man Ryder Cup team under a revised points system that accounts for golf not being played for three months during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualifying for the top six Americans also was extended by one ...
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Mask requirement among safety protocols for fans at The Memorial Tournament in Ohio The Memorial Tournament will require fans to wear masks next month, when it becomes the first PGA Tour event to allow spectators during the coronavirus pandemic. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine gave approval last week to allow a limited number of spectators at ...
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Penn State's Keaton Ellis: 'Everything isn't going to be normal' Penn State athletes' phased return to campus began this week, and perhaps nobody had a shorter commute than State College Area High School alum and Nittany Lion cornerback Keaton Ellis. "It's the first step to getting back to playing the sport that we love ...
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Bayern beats Frankfurt in cup semi, still targeting double MUNICH (AP) — Robert Lewandowski scored the winning goal as Bayern Munich beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1 Wednesday to reach the German Cup final, with both teams paying tribute to the global protests against the killing of George Floyd. Lewandowski ...
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George Floyd protests: Eagles' Carson Wentz, Zach Ertz sign Players Coalition letter to Congress on police brutality Carson Wentz is among the 1,400 current and former athletes and coaches asking Congress to end qualified immunity. Introducing Eagles Extra: Sign up for a free trial now. Get exclusive news, behind-the-scenes observations and the ability to text directly ...
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Man reportedly broke into Miller Park, tried to carve name in grass A Milwaukee man reportedly faces criminal charges after trying to make some personal renovations inside Miller Park. Latest Cubs Talk. Man who reportedly broke into Miller Park had crazy plan · Jason Heyward's Gold Coast condo for sale, comes with sweet ...
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SEC Football Media Days to Be Conducted Virtually Amid COVID-19 Pandemic The SEC's annual media days event will still take place this year, but it will be held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced the change in a statement released on Wednesday: "Conducting football media days in ...
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Vikings to donate $5 million to various social justice causes In the wake of George Floyd's death while in custody of Minneapolis police, the Vikings are donating $5 million donation to social justice causes throughout the country. Vikings Chief Operating Officer Andrew Miller announced the donation during a video call ...
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Bay Area women file sexual abuse suit against USA Swimming and former coaches Debbie Denithorne was a Bay Area 11-year-old with Olympic aspirations in 1980 when Andy King approached her parents about coaching her. "I could be an elite swimmer, perhaps an Olympian," Denithorne recalled King telling her parents. "This was ...
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Safety first, fans in stands last: 5 takeaways from state high school sports coronavirus meeting Syracuse, N.Y. -- The body in charge of high school sports in New York state dug into the task of making some sense of if and when the 2020 fall season will begin. The New York State Public High School Athletic Association held its first coronavirus task force ...
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Home of Lynn Bowden's grandmother searched by DEA officials A house where Raiders rookie Lynn Bowden was staying in Youngstown, Ohio, was raided early Wednesday morning by officials from the U.S. Marshals office and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Bowden was handcuffed during the search and released ...
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Giants extend weekly stipends to minor-leaguers through season's end The Giants have joined a growing list of major-league teams that have agreed to pay their idled minor-league players through the end of the their season. The team announced Wednesday that it would continue to provide the $400 weekly stipends through ...
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The IOC Will Lose the Podium Protest Battle, No Matter How Hard They Fight Earlier today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reaffirmed its position outlawing podium protests at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which are tentatively to be held in the summer of 2021. In doing so, the organization has again grossly miscalculated ...
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Evaluating the first five games that are critical for NY Giants 2020 Season The first five weeks of the 2020 season will reveal a lot about this NY Giants team and provide some immediate answers for some of this off-season's biggest questions. As momentum continues to build surrounding an on-time start of the NFL season, teams ...
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Illinois High School Association to vote on basketball state final locations on Monday BLOOMINGTON — Where oh where will the Illinois High School Association state basketball finals take place? That answer will come on Monday when the IHSA hosts a virtual board meeting via Zoom to vote on the site of the finals on a three-year contract for ...
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Djokovic says players may skip US Open and start on clay Belgrade (AFP) - Novak Djokovic suggested that his season might resume on clay rather than at the US Open as he repeated concerns about playing in North America. "Nothing is certain yet, a final decision is expected by the end of the month," world number ...
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Former Preds duo help form Hockey Diversity Alliance A group of current and former NHL players joined together to form the newly-created Hockey Diversity Alliance on Monday, with former Nashville Predators players Joel Ward and Wayne Simmonds part of the seven-man assembly. The group is led by former ...
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Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand are back on the ice With the NHL slowly moving forward in its phased reopening plan and the state of Massachusetts entering Phase 2 of its own plan this past Monday, it was inevitable that players would begin to trickle in to team facilities. Today, Patrice Bergeron and Brad ...
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Warren Moon says age has already caught up with Tom Brady When all is said and done, Warren Moon will likely have beaten current Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback and six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady to the Hall of Fame by about two decades, so the NFL and Canadian Football League icon is no ...
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Lions making commitment to ground game ... now it's about their defence It's not a hard-and-fast rule because so much goes into the making of the end result, but show me a good team and quite often I'll show you a team that can run the ball. And then there's the Detroit Lions. Very rarely do they find success. They've made the ...
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Giants Weeks 7 & 10 Opponent Breakdown | Philadelphia Eagles Since Super Bowl XLII, no team has beaten the Giants more than the Eagles. The rivalry has gone 20-5 in favor of the Eagles since 2008, including an 11-1 stretch since 2014. This stretch of Eagles dominance came to a peak in 2019 when, for the first time in ...
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Falcons game by game predictions: Week 13 In Week 13, the Falcons face their arch-rival for the second and final time unless they meet again in the playoffs. This game will take place at home, where the Falcons have had much more success against the Saints, although they didn't put up much of a fight ...
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