Soccer: Chicharito to headline MLS esports tournament
Major League Soccer is kicking off a five-week esports tournament on Sunday featuring players such as new LA Galaxy striker Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez, as the sporting world adapts to life indoors amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Ex-NFL QB Jackson killed in car crash
Former NFL quarterback Tarvaris Jackson was killed Sunday night in a car accident in Alabama.
Larson uses racial slur during live stream, NASCAR expected to act
NASCAR driver Kyle Larson and Chip Ganassi Racing are expected to hear from race officials after he used a racial slur in a livestream broadcast of an iRacing event on Sunday night.
Judo: Jordanian Judoka stays in shape during lockdown by lifting little sister
With no access to gym equipment during the lockdown in Jordan, Olympic hopeful judoka Hadeel Alami has hit upon an unorthodox way to stay in peak condition – using her little sister as a weight during her training routine.
Soccer: More than 1,000 fans shrug off virus concerns to attend match in Belarus
More than 1,000 soccer fans cheered, chanted and hugged each other as they attended a Belarusian top-flight league match on Sunday despite calls from a growing number of supporters to boycott games due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On this day: Died April 14, 2001: Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer
The Scottish footballer Jim Baxter, who died of cancer at the age of 61 on April 14, 2001, is remembered as one of the greatest talents never to have featured in a World Cup.
Baseball, soccer seasons get underway in Taiwan
The baseball and soccer seasons got underway behind closed doors in Taiwan at the weekend, providing rare live action for fans at home at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down most professional sport around the globe.
ITTF chief mulls scrapping individual world championships
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) chief Steve Dainton has suggested the sport’s annual individual world championships be scrapped, with champions instead decided by the winners of the new “Grand Smash” mega tournaments.
Goodell to announce picks from his basement
The 2020 NFL Draft won’t have crowds, big stage and the usual fanfare that comes with the offseason’s biggest night because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But fans who do tune in for the first night of the event will reportedly get a different so…
Golf: Four-time major runner-up Sanders dies aged 86
American Doug Sanders, who was three feet away from beating Jack Nicklaus and winning the 1970 British Open at the home of golf, has died of natural causes aged 86, the PGA Tour said on Sunday.
