Three Tampa Bay Lightning players and two staffers test positive for...
Following news of the Philadelphia Phillies shutting down their Clearwater, Florida training facility after eight positive COVID-19 tests (five from players, three from staffers), another pro sports...
View ArticleBlue Jays close Dunedin training facility after a player showed COVID-19...
The Florida COVID-19 sports news continues to roll in. Following news Friday that five Philadelphia Phillies players and three staffers and three Tampa Bay Lightning players and two staffers had tested...
View ArticleMaple Leafs’ Auston Matthews tests positive for COVID-19, some Coyotes’...
Following the news earlier Friday that three unnamed Tampa Bay Lightning players and two staffers had tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, Steve Simmons of The Toronto Sun reported Friday...
View Article23 Clemson football players have tested positive for COVID-19
Friday’s wave of positive COVID-19 test results in sports has continued, this time with the Clemson Tigers football team. The school announced Friday that their athletics department has seen 28...
View ArticleNick Watney tests positive for COVID-19, withdraws from second round of PGA...
Friday saw plenty of positive COVID-19 test results announced across sports, and golf is no exception there. The PGA Tour announced Friday afternoon that golfer Nick Watney (seen above at the Honda...
View ArticleFormer USC and NFL lineman Max Tuerk passes away at 26, reportedly after...
A former NCAA and NFL offensive lineman is gone too soon. Max Tuerk starred at USC from 2012-15, earning a Freshman All-American nod in 2012 and a first-team All-Pac-12 selection in 2014, then was...
View ArticleWorld No. 19 Grigor Dimitrov tests positive for COVID-19, leading to...
Friday saw plenty of positive COVID-19 tests across sports, and this weekend saw a notable one in tennis. The multiple-country Adria Tour exhibition event, organized by Novak Djokovic and his brother...
View ArticleMLBPA announces that players are set to report to training camps, with “all...
The long and often–acrimonious negotiations about what a MLB season would look like this year appear to be over. MLB announced Monday that their owners had unanimously voted to impose a 60-game season...
View Article37 Clemson football players have now tested positive for COVID-19, roughly...
There have been plenty of concerning COVID-19 test reports throughout the NCAA football world, but the numbers for the Clemson Tigers (last year’s national runners-up) appear particularly worrying....
View Article26 NHL players have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past three weeks
The NHL is continuing to move forward with its reopening/postseason tournament plan, with hub cities expected to be announced soon, but they’re already seeing significant numbers of positive COVID-19...
View ArticleMLB players opting out of the 2020 season so far include Ryan Zimmerman, Joe...
While MLB is moving forward with its 2020 return to play plan, some recognizable names won’t be taking part. The league has allowed players to opt out of this season for health or other concerns, and...
View ArticleMinor League Baseball season cancelled, president Pat O’Conner says “We are...
For the first time since 1901, there won’t be any official Minor League Baseball this summer. The MiLB season had long seen rumors of cancellation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, but that cancellation...
View ArticleAdam Silver says NBA may abandon postseason if there’s a large outbreak:...
While COVID-19 cases are on the rise across the U.S. in general and in Orlando in particular, the NBA is still planning to resume its season in Orlando in early July, with 22 teams set to travel to the...
View ArticleZachary Price, Ryan Blaney’s rear tire changer, was caught between cars...
NASCAR’s Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400 at the Brickyard Sunday saw quite the incident, with a seven-car crash on pit road leading to a member of Ryan Blaney’s pit row team getting caught between cars....
View ArticleThe Milwaukee Bucks are the latest NBA team to shut down their practice...
While the NBA is moving ahead with its plans to restart its season with a tournament in Orlando (and now, reportedly perhaps also one in Chicago for the eight teams not invited to Orlando), there are...
View ArticleNHL and NHLPA announce tentative deal to begin postseason play August 1,...
The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association have come to a tentative deal on both formal dates for a return to play and a four-year collective bargaining agreement extension. The current CBA runs through...
View ArticleNashville SC removed from MLS is Back tournament after positive COVID-19...
2020 was MLS expansion club’s Nashville SC’s debut season, but that campaign so far hasn’t gone as planned. They played one match (on February 29, where they lost 2-1 to Atlanta United) before the...
View Article71 MLB players and 12 staffers have tested positive for COVID-19 since June 27
Ahead of Major League Baseball’s planned July 23 start of its season, MLB teams have been doing training camps at their stadiums (following the shutdowns of their Florida and Arizona training camps...
View ArticleThe PGA Tour reportedly plans to play the rest of this season’s tournaments,...
While the PGA Tour had initially planned to have fans at many of its remaining tournaments this season, that appears to be no longer the case. This past week saw the Tour reverse course on this coming...
View ArticleWhite Sox outfielder Luis Robert hit a home run while falling down
Luis Robert has been hitting plenty of balls hard during Chicago White Sox intrasquad games, and he continued that Saturday despite falling down. During an intrasquad game at Guaranteed Rate Field,...
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