MLB proposes 76-game schedule with 75% prorated salaries: report
Major League Baseball has made a new offer to the Players Association on Monday, proposing a 76-game season with 75% prorated salaries, ESPN reported, citing sources.
Golf: Britain’s Rose sponsors new women’s series
Former world number one Justin Rose and his wife Kate are to sponsor a new women’s series in Britain starting this month.
Report: Replacement players to be permitted
NBA teams will be permitted to carry replacement players who can be added to the active roster in the event of a positive COVID-19 test, ESPN reported.
Reports: MLB proposes 76-game season
Major League Baseball has offered a new proposal to players for a 76-game season at 75 percent of their salaries, multiple outlets reported Monday.
USSF to consider repealing ban on players kneeling during anthem
The United States Soccer Federation (USSF) will hold a special meeting on Tuesday to consider repealing a policy requiring national team players to stand during the national anthem.
Not athletes’ job to fix racism, says Sport England board member
It is not the responsibility of elite athletes to fix the issue of racism in sport and the heads of governing bodies must study the true extent of the problem to find solutions, Sport England board member Chris Grant said.
Motor racing: Hamilton supports protesters who tore down slave trader’s statue
Six-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has backed the anti-racism protesters who toppled the statue of a 17th-century slave trader in the English port city of Bristol, and urged governments across the world to take similar action.
Russian high jumper Shustov receives four-year doping ban
Russian high jumper Alexander Shustov, the 2010 European champion, has received a four-year ban for anti-doping violations, the country’s athletics federation said on Monday.
Evans dismisses Djokovic’s U.S. Open concerns over COVID-19 protocols
Britain’s Dan Evans believes Novak Djokovic’s concerns about players having only one member of their support staff at the U.S. Open does not apply to the majority of the field and compromises should be made when action resumes.
Athletics ex-boss stands trial for taking bribes to clear Russians of doping
Lamine Diack, the former head of the governing body for world athletics, was at the heart of a corruption scam that saw Russian athletes pay six-figure sums to have their names erased from doping lists, prosecutors told a French court on Monday.
