Photo from AFP One year after Covid-19 sent sport across North America grinding to a halt, professional leagues and tours are inching back towards normalcy after absorbing a multi-billion-dollar financial hit. Twelve months ago on March 11, NBA commissioner Adam Silver sent shockwaves across the...
Major League Baseball announced plans to allow some 11,500 fans to attend National League Championship Series and World Series games in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by RONALD MARTINEZ / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) Major League Baseball announced plans Wednesday to allow some 11,500 fans to attend...
Genesis Cabrera of the St. Louis Cardinals delivers a pitch against the Milwaukee Brewers in the eighth inning at Busch Stadium on September 27, 2020 in St Louis, Missouri. Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images/AFP Harrison Bader blasted a home run as the St. Louis Cardinals clinched a playoff spot with a...
Pitcher Justin Verlander #35 of the Houston Astros (Photo by Rich Schultz / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) Houston Astros star pitcher Justin Verlander said on Saturday he will miss the remainder of the Major League Baseball season and undergo "Tommy John" tendon replacement surgery. The...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 29, 2019 a view of the world series logo prior to Game Seven of the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. - The 2020 World Series will take place at a neutral venue for the first...
Catcher Robinson Chirinos #26 of the New York Mets and Manager Luis Rojas #19 look to home plate to get a ball to begin play after a pitching change was made during the bottom of the seventh inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at Sahlen Field in Buffalo, New York. Nicholas T. LoVerde/Getty...
General view of the MLB 2020 Opening Week sign painted on the field prior to the game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Toronto Blue Jays on Opening Day at Tropicana Field on July 24, 2020 in St Petersburg, Florida. (Douglas P. DeFelice / Getty Images / AFP) No Major League Baseball players and...
Johnny Cueto, right, #47 of the San Francisco Giants leans against the dugout after a baseball game against the San Diego Padres was postponed at Petco Park on September 11, 2020 in San Diego, California. (Denis Poroy / Getty Images / AFP) The San Francisco Giants divisional clash with the San...
St. Louis Cardinals hall of famer Lou Brock (Photo by Jeff Curry / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) St. Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock, second on Major League Baseball's all-time stolen base list and elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985, died Sunday. He was 81. The Chicago Cubs,...
In this file photo taken on July 16, 2013 Hall of Famer Tom Seaver throws out the first pitch before the 84th MLB All-Star Game at Citi Field in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) Hall of Fame pitcher Tom...
LeBron James, Kevin Love among those who paid tribute to the late actor In this file photo actor Chadwick Boseman attends the Los Angeles Premiere of "42" at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 9, 2013 in Hollywood. (Photo by Joe KLAMAR / AFP) American actor Chadwick Boseman, 43, succumbed to colon cancer...
Houston Astros walk off the field before playing the Oakland Athletics as both teams elected not to play in protest of racial injustice and the shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha, Wisconsin police at Minute Maid Park on August 28, 2020 in Houston, Texas. (Bob Levey / Getty Images / AFP) The Houston...
