Sports
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NFL to Play Black National Anthem Before Week 1 Games, May Put Victim Names of Police Brutality on Jerseys
“Lift Ev’ry Voice” will be played prior to the national anthem
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Former ESPN Personality Will Cain to Co-Host ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’
Cain will be the new co-anchor of the weekend morning show
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BlackSportsOnline CEO Robert Littal Apologizes, Calls Past Treatment of Female Contributors ‘Totally Wrong’ (Video)
Writers allege that Littal made inappropriate advances and harassed them
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Fox Sports Drops USGA TV Rights, Golf’s US Open Moves to NBC Sports
COVID-19 has shifted Fox’s only major to September, when it will (hopefully) air Major League Baseball and college and NFL football
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Ava DuVernay to Executive Produce Scripted Series Based on Colin Kaepernick’s High School Years
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback to narrate and executive produce six-episode Netflix show written by Michael Starrbury
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NBA Sets TV Schedule for Season Restart at Disney World
First night back features Zion Williamson and an LA-inner city rivalry (played outside the city)
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NFL Cancels 2020 Hall of Fame Game, the Kickoff to Preseason Football, Due to Coronavirus
Cowboys-Steelers exhibition is the first NFL game canceled due to the virus
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Bleacher Report CEO Howard Mittman Exits After After Outcry Over Staff Diversity
Turner Sports head Lenny Daniels will take over in the interim
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Bubba Wallace Says Rope in Garage Was a ‘Straight-Up Noose,’ Not a Door Pull (Video)
NASCAR driver appeared on Don Lemon’s CNN program Tuesday night after the FBI found he was not the victim of a hate crime
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MLB Announces 2020 Season Will Begin Next Month
Players will report for training by July 1
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NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace Was ‘Not the Target of a Hate Crime,’ FBI Finds
“The garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall,” racing league says
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Novak Djokovic Tests Positive for Coronavirus After Organizing Tennis Tournament With No Social Distancing
No one saw this coming for world’s No. 1 player
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Virtual ESPYS Settle for 482,000 Viewers Across ESPN and ESPN2
Best-in-sports awards show aired on cable for the first time in five years
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MLB to Impose Shortened 2020 Season After Negotiations With Players Fall Apart
Season expected to begin in late July, assuming COVID-19 doesn’t get the final say
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NASCAR and Alabama DA to Investigate Noose Found in Bubba Wallace’s Garage at Talladega
“We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act,” racing league says
 













