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CFL commish: 2020 season likely off, league in trouble
As part of a request for balloon funding to keep the league in position to play, Canadian Football League commissioner Randy Ambrosie told the House of Commons the 2020 season would "most likely" be c...
May 08, 2020
NFL has flexibility to delay ’20 schedule
Plans are subject to change during a pandemic, and the NFL is armed with the ability pause or delay the start of the 2020 season. ESPN's Adam Schefter reported the NFL could delay the season by severa...
May 08, 2020
NBPA president: NBA ‘bubble’ plan ‘incarceration’
Isolating players to resume the NBA season sounds like a closed book if National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts is telling the story. In an interview with ESPN, Robe...
May 08, 2020
NHL: League postpones games in Europe due to COVID-19
By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - The National Hockey League on Friday scrapped plans to play regular-season games in the Czech Republic and Finland this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic which has alre...
May 08, 2020
Five substitutions per team to be allowed on temporary basis
By Brian Homewood BERN (Reuters) - Teams will be allowed up to five substitutions per match, instead of the usual three, as a temporary measure to help cope with potential fixture congestion in the af...
May 08, 2020
Michael Jordan’s first Air Jordans up for auction at Sotheby’s
(Reuters) - An autographed and well-worn pair of basketball legend Michael Jordan's Nike shoes hits the auction block at Sotheby's on Friday, in a celebrity-infused test of the market for sneakers as ...
May 08, 2020
Soccer comes in from the COVID-19 cold in Faroe Islands
By Philip O'Connor STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - It may not be the biggest in the world, but the Faroe Islands' Betri League will for once be in the spotlight when its season kicks off on Saturday. The windsw...
May 08, 2020
Mixed martial arts: UFC returns with Ferguson eyeing ‘real’ lightweight title
By Philip O'Connor (Reuters) - The main event of Saturday's UFC 249 card in Florida is billed as being for the interim lightweight title but Tony Ferguson says he should be considered the real champio...
May 08, 2020
Former ABA commissioner Storen dies at 84
Mike Storen, a sports executive who served as commissioner of the American Basketball Association in the 1970s, died Thursday at age 84. His daughter, ESPN broadcaster Hannah Storm, said her father di...
May 08, 2020
On this day: Born May 9, 1968: Marie-Jose Perec, French athlete
By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - The greatest French athlete of all time, Marie-Jose Perec will be remembered for gracing the track with her elegant stride, but also for mysteriously walking away fr...
May 08, 2020
