Month: May 2021

2:08 PM ET Associated Press Roush Fenway Racing on Wednesday announced a contract extension with both driver Chris Buescher and longtime sponsor Fastenal. The deal with Fastenal was extended through the 2024 season. The distributor has been a Roush anchor partner since 2010 when Fastenal joined the team as primary sponsor for Carl Edwards in
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2:25 PM BST Former New Zealand international Kieran Crowley has replaced Franco Smith as Italy’s rugby coach, the country’s rugby federation said on Wednesday. A former full-back who was part of the All Blacks’ World Cup-winning squad in 1987, Crowley has spent the last five seasons coaching Italian club Benetton. 1 Related The 59-year-old previously
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1:14 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — The Dallas Open will bring professional men’s tennis to the city next year as the first ATP Tour event there since the circuit started in 1990. The indoor hard-court tournament will be played at SMU from Feb. 6-13, the tour announced Wednesday. It is an ATP 250 event
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1:30 PM ET Duke is promoting Nina King to be its next athletic director, the school announced Wednesday. King, who joined Duke’s athletic department in September 2008 and serves as senior deputy director of athletics, will replace Kevin White, who is retiring Sept. 1 after 13 years at the school. She will become the first
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12:42 PM BST Murrayfield will allow in 16,500 spectators when the British & Irish Lions face Japan on June 26 ahead of their tour to South Africa this year, the Lions said on Wednesday. The move to let fans attend amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was made after consultations with the Scottish government. 1 Related
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10:47 AM ET The head of UK Anti-Doping, Nicole Sapstead, is leaving to take up a new role with the International Tennis Integrity Agency after 12 years with the organisation, UKAD said on Wednesday. Sapstead, who has been chief executive of UKAD for six years, will become the ITIA’s Senior Director for Anti-Doping. 1 Related
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Mohammed Siraj and Mayank Agarwal celebrating a wicket in Australia.© AFP India seamer Mohammed Siraj and batsman Mayank Agarwal on Wednesday departed for Mumbai to join the team’s bio-bubble ahead of travelling to England for a long tour. The duo confirmed their departure from their respective home cites earlier in the day via their Instagram
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8:03 AM ET Tatiana Suarez, one of the best women’s MMA fighters in the world, is finally close to returning to the Octagon. Suarez told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a video interview published Wednesday that she has been medically cleared by doctors and is targeting a return to the UFC in September, or perhaps even
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3:38 PM ET The Washington Football Team has granted longtime starting right tackle Morgan Moses permission to seek a trade, a source confirmed. Washington would save $7.75 million in salary-cap space whether it trades or releases Moses, no matter if it’s before or after June 1. He would count $1.9 million in dead cap room.
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7:27 AM ET Organisers of the Wimbledon Championships are confident that they will be able to host more fans than the current allowance of 25% of capacity at this year’s grasscourt Grand Slam following the latest easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Britain moved to stage three of its roadmap for lifting lockdown restrictions from Monday with
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