Anson Carter filled his time in pandemic isolation walking 11 miles a day, sometimes with his dogs, around his Atlanta neighbourhood.
When video surfaced of another Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, being shot and killed in nearby Glynn County, Georgia, Carter found himself looking over his shoulder. To use a hockey term from his playing days, he kept his head on a swivel.
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
Old Dominion is cancelling its fall sports season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
President John Broderick made the announcement Monday, saying he knows student-athletes and fans will be disappointed, but playing “posed too great a risk.”
It had to be a bit of a bittersweet day for Buffalo, N.Y., last month when the Toronto Blue Jays announced they would play most of their 2020 home games in the border city.
“Jubilation as Major League Baseball comes to Buffalo,” read the main front-page headline on the Buffalo News.
EDMONTON - The Chicago Blackhawks dressed in the Edmonton Oilers dressing room then proceeded to eat their lunch, pushing the Oilers to the edge of the abyss in the NHL playoffs with a stunning 4-3 comeback win Wednesday night.
The Superior International Junior Hockey League has set its sights on November 14 as a tentative start date for the 2020-2021 season. But there are still factors at play, before the puck can drop.
TORONTO - Sheldon Keefe didn't play for long under John Tortorella in Tampa Bay - just 93 of his 125 NHL games.
A high-scoring junior winger, Keefe was out the door by the time his old boss guided the Lightning to their only Stanley Cup victory in 2004.
But both men, set to meet in the league's best-of-five qualifying round, left lasting impressions on the other.
NEW YORK - Another player with the Miami Marlins has tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the team's outbreak total to 17 players, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday because test results were not announced.
Zach Aston-Reese pondered the question for a minute.
“I'm not exactly sure who is on their first line,” the Penguins forward said when asked how Pittsburgh plans to slow down Montreal's top line in their best-of-five play-in series that begins Saturday in Toronto.
OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says the federal government is in talks with the CFL about applying quarantine rules to returning American players that are similar to the cohort approach used by the NHL.
MIAMI - Two major league games scheduled for Monday night were postponed as the Miami Marlins deal with a coronavirus outbreak that stranded them in Philadelphia.
The Marlins' home opener against Baltimore was called off, as was the New York Yankees' game at Philadelphia. The Yankees would have been in the same clubhouse the Marlins used last weekend.
