Rangers veteran Shin-Soo Choo is helping out financially strapped minor league players with the season on hold, giving $1,000 each to 191 of them who are in the Texas organization. Read more
UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov says he won’t leave quarantine in Russia to fight in UFC 249. Read more
Wimbledon was scheduled to be played on the club’s grass courts on the outskirts of London from June 29 to July 12. Read more
NFL teams are having to rely more heavily on game film of college prospects as they prepare for the draft. Read more
Major League Baseball players are open to just about any scenario for playing games. That includes empty ballparks, ample doubleheaders or yes, even masks. Read more
The former Texas A&M, Kentucky and Texas Tech coach had been at a Texas junior college the past five years. The 60-year-old West Texas native got a four-year contract from Tarleton State that goes through the 2023-24 season. Read more
No college coaches packed into suffocating high school gyms. No coaches milling around airport terminals, waiting for the next flight to some out-of-the-way place. No chance to shake hands with mom and dad and make a pitch that ultimately hold the fate of your career in their hands. Read more
The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year’s games. Read more
A few blocks from downtown, inside a building with a brick and stucco facade, two men were immersed in an esports event, one of the safer competitions remaining in a sporting world upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
Tokyo Olympic organizers seem to be leaning away from starting the rescheduled games in the spring of 2021. More and more the signs point toward the summer of 2021. Read more
Besides the draft, the other big event on April’s NFL calendar is the release of the regular-season schedule. Read more
He was a starting center for the Ramblers, who upset Cincinnati in the national title game and drew acclaim for their basketball prowess and for what they represented to a nation divided by segregation. Read more
Major League Baseball owners ratified a 17-page agreement with the union today in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, with players willing to extend the season as long as needed to cover as close to a full schedule as possible. Read more
Mayfield High School student Canaan Bower was being lauded as a hero after controlling suspect Daniel Arroyo Beltran, 22, of Phoenix, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported Thursday. Read more
With leagues across the world idle and thousands of athletes at home, unable to practice, clubs are increasingly concerned about their financial futures. Read more
Jimmy Wynn, the diminutive Houston slugger whose monster shots in the 1960s and ’70s earned him the popular nickname “The Toy Cannon,” has died. He was 78. Read more
The draft will still take place April 23-25. It was originally scheduled for a big outdoor production in Las Vegas, but those plans were scrapped because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
Fred “Curly” Neal, the dribbling wizard who entertained millions with the Harlem Globetrotters for parts of three decades, has died. He was 77. Read more
The Panthers have officially signed free agent quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to a three-year contract. Read more
If Major League Baseball needs to squeeze more games into a condensed season without exhausting pitching staffs, perhaps this idea could get tossed into play: seven-inning doubleheaders. Read more
The move became a mere formality after the Panthers made it clear last week they were moving on from Newton by giving him permission to seek a trade and then agreeing to a three-year, $63 million contract with free agent quarterback Teddy Bridgewater about 90 minutes later. Read more
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