Basketball’s Hall of Fame to delay ceremony until ’21
Basketball Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo told ESPN on Wednesday that the enshrinement ceremony for Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan and five others will be delayed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The ceremony was to have taken place in Springfield, Mass., on Aug. 29. Colangelo told ESPN that the event will be moved to the spring of 2021.
Colangelo did not respond to a request for comment from the Associated Press. There was no immediate announcement from the Hall of Fame about the rescheduling plan.
“We’re definitely canceling,” Colangelo told ESPN. “It’s going to have to be the first quarter of next year. We’ll meet in a couple of weeks and look at the options of how and when and where.” Baseball: Major League Baseball’s players appeared likely to propose increasing the number of regularseason games this year while holding to their demand for full prorated salaries, people familiar with their deliberations told the AP.
A day after MLB proposed a sliding scale of salary slashing for a pandemicdelayed season in ballparks without fans, the union held a conference call that included its executive board, player representatives and alternate player representatives, the people said.
It was unclear when the union will respond to MLB’s plan, the people said. Soccer: The National Women’s Soccer League intends to start a 25game tournament featuring its nine teams on June 27 in two Utah stadiums — Zions Bank and Rio Tinto — that will be kept clear of fans to protect players from COVID19.
Games are to be televised and streamed by CBS and its online and broadcast affiliates, with a champion to be crowned July 26.
Players can opt out of the tournament, and several players from last summer’s Women’s World Cupchampion U.S. team are expected to do so.
Basketball: The WNBA’s Dallas Wings traded former Cal standout Kristine Anigwe and a thirdround draft pick to the Los Angeles Sparks for a secondround pick.
Anigwe averaged 2.4 points and 2.4 rebounds per game as a rookie last season.
Kentucky transfer Johnny Juzang, a guard, can play for UCLA this winter, beginning the 202021 season as a sophomore.
Motor sports: Rain forced the postponement of the NASCAR Cup Series’ Alsco Uniforms 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., until Thursday. The race is scheduled to be shown on FS1 beginning at 4 p.m.
NHL: Detroit Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman says he is keeping head coach Jeff Blashill despite the team’s leagueworst 17495 record this season.
Obituary: Former Atlanta catcher Biff Pocoroba, who played in the 1978 AllStar Game and was a backup on the Braves team that won the NL West title in 1982, died Sunday at age 66 in the Atlanta suburb of Snellville. No cause of death was given.