• Artemi Panarin ‘kidding’ about Rangers exit if NHL cuts pay over coronavirus

    Artemi Panarin ‘kidding’ about Rangers exit if NHL cuts pay over coronavirus

    Rangers fans need not fear. Artemi Panarin isn’t planning to bolt the team and sit out next season if the NHL’s finances take a severe beating as a result of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, despite a report circulating on a Russian website, in which the winger is quoted saying as such on Friday. “Of course …
  • Poll paints sobering picture of what sports is up against

    Poll paints sobering picture of what sports is up against

    Every day there is civil war, raging in our hearts, seething in our souls, fulminating our conscience. We know what we are supposed to do, and mostly we have done that. We have stayed home. We have masked up, and gloved up, whenever we venture to grocery stores. We have kept our social distance. But …
  • Poll: 72 percent won’t go to games again without coronavirus vaccine

    Poll: 72 percent won’t go to games again without coronavirus vaccine

    United States sports leagues may be itching to return to action but 72 percent of those who responded to a Seton Hall poll said they would not feel safe to attend games until a vaccine for the novel coronavirus is developed. Asked what they would do if the leagues resumed play before there was a …
  • Trump says NFL season should start on time amid coronavirus crisis

    Trump says NFL season should start on time amid coronavirus crisis

    President Trump believes the NFL season should start on time in September. Trump said as much in a conference call with the commissioners of the major sports leagues on Saturday, and also said he hoped to have fans back in stadiums by August and September, according to ESPN, citing sources familiar with the call. The NFL …
  • March mercifully ends with sports, world unrecognizable

    March mercifully ends with sports, world unrecognizable

    On March 1, there were two stories that dominated much of the news cycle. There was much buzz attached to Joe Biden’s stunning political resurrection after winning the South Carolina primary. There was hope surrounding an agreement signed between the U.S. and the Taliban to end America’s longest war, which on that Sunday had lasted …
  • Forgotten Stanley Cup mayhem resurfaces with coronavirus

    Forgotten Stanley Cup mayhem resurfaces with coronavirus

    Sarah Hall has heard the stories about her great grandfather, more and more as the years have gone on. She understands the rising interest in Joe Hall — sometimes dubbed “Bad” Joe Hall for his overwhelming penalty minutes while playing for the Canadiens just after World War I. Hall was on the team in 1919 …
  • Ottawa Senators player is NHL’s first coronavirus case

    Ottawa Senators player is NHL’s first coronavirus case

    The NHL has its first coronavirus case after a member of the Ottawa Senators tested positive for the virus, the team announced Tuesday.
  • Sports will be hit hard by CDC’s coronavirus recommendations

    Sports will be hit hard by CDC’s coronavirus recommendations

    Get ready for a sports-less landscape for longer than initially hoped, after federal officials recommended Sunday all events with 50 or more people for the next eight weeks be avoided. Signs point to it being even longer than that. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, NBA owners and executives are bracing for a best-case …