Predators, Wolves team up
Nashville Predators president of hockey operations / general manager David Poile announced Thursday that the team has partnered with the Carolina Hurricanes to have Predators prospects assigned to Carolina’s primary developmental affiliate, the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League, for the 2020-21 season.
This comes after Monday’s announcement that Nashville’s primary AHL affiliate, the Milwaukee Admirals, would not be playing this season due to fiscal ramifications and current health and safety standards in Wisconsin.
The Wolves, who will play this season at their practice facility in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, are entering their first year as a Hurricanes affiliate.
NFL
The Cleveland Browns placed safety Ronnie Harrison on the COVID-19 reserve list while they await permission from the NFL to practice before Cleveland’s first playoff game since 2003.
Harrison is the latest infection on the Browns, who will be without coach Kevin Stefanski for Sunday’s wild-card game against the Pittsburgh Steelers after he tested positive with the virus. The team is down seven rotational players and six coaches at this point and its training facility in Berea, Ohio, remains closed.
TENNIS
Dayana Yastremska, who is ranked 29th, was provisionally suspended for failing an out-of-competition doping test, the International Tennis Federation announced.
The ITF said Yastremska, a 20-year-old Ukrainian, tested positive for mesterolone metabolite, a prohibited substance that can be used to boost testosterone.
She reached a career-high ranking of No. 21 in January 2020, and her best showing at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon in her main-draw debut there in 2019.