Sports Stories from June 19, 2020 (Change date)
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French league votes to keep 20-team 1st division next seasonJun 19, 2020 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - The French league voted on Friday to keep a 20-team first division next season, despite a court's decision to suspend the relegations of Amiens and Toulouse...
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Wheelchair tennis players now told they could play US OpenJun 19, 2020 7:00 am - There might be wheelchair tennis competition at the 2020 U.S. Open, after all. The U.S. Tennis Association acknowledged Friday it should have consulted wheelchair athlet...
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Marseille fined by UEFA but keeps Champions League placeJun 19, 2020 7:00 am - NYON, Switzerland (AP) - French club Marseille was ordered to pay a fine of 3 million euros ($3.4 million) to UEFA on Friday for breaking rules that monitor club finance...
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Texas Tech adding grad transfer from Alabama in backfieldJun 19, 2020 7:00 am - LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Texas Tech is adding Alabama graduate transfer Chadarius Townsend, who was used sparingly at running back by the Crimson Tide and has two years of ...
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Clemson sees 23 football players test positive for COVID-19Jun 19, 2020 7:00 am - CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) - Clemson said 23 football players have tested positive for coronavirus since returning to campus this month. Clemson announced the results Friday. I...
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Phoenix gets OK to move to Australia, finish A-League seasonJun 19, 2020 7:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - Wellington Phoenix, the New Zealand-based club in the A-League, says it has been given the OK to relocate to Australia to finish the season. The A-League h...
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AP source: MLB spring training sites close amid virus worryJun 19, 2020 7:00 am - Every team in Major League Baseball will shut its spring training camp over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, a move that came in the wake of the Philadelphia Phi...
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AP Source: Jets agree to terms with 2nd-round pick WR MimsJun 19, 2020 7:00 am - The New York Jets have agreed to terms with Baylor wide receiver Denzel Mims, their second-round draft pick in April, a person with knowledge of the deal tells The Assoc...
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Sané rejects City contract extension, opens door for BayernJun 19, 2020 7:00 am - MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester City forward Leroy Sané could leave the club after rejecting offers of a contract extension. The 24-year-old Sané, a German inter...
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Japan opens baseball season after 3-month pandemic delayJun 19, 2020 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Japanese baseball managed to do what American baseball has not - play ball. After a three-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the world's second...