NHL prepares despite pandemic
The National Hockey League said a total of 26 players have reported testing positive for the coronavirus since voluntary workouts began June 8.
An update Monday includes four additional cases among those tested at team facilities, to go along with the 11 announced June 19. The league said it’s aware of 11 other players testing positive outside the voluntary workout protocol.
The NHL said more than 250 players who worked out at team facilities were administered more than 1,450 COVID-19 tests.
The league and players are in the final stages of agreeing to resume the season. Training camps can open as early as July 10 if an agreement on testing, health and safety protocols and “hub” cities to play host to games can be reached.
Golf
The USGA is transferring its U.S. media rights from Fox Sports to NBC, which returns the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open to NBC this year and for the final seven years of the Fox contract. The transfer is largely attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down golf for three months.
Pro basketball
DeAndre Jordan has tested positive for COVID19 and will not join the Brooklyn Nets at Disney. Jordan is the fifth Nets player to reveal that he will not make the trip to Orlando, Fla., when the season resumes.
•Dan Hughes will not coach the Seattle Storm in the 2020 WNBA season over concerns about his risk for severe illness if he were to contract COVID-19.
• Brooklyn Nets guard
Spencer Dinwiddie said he has tested positive for the coronavirus.
• The Cleveland Cavaliers agreed to terms with free-agent forward Jordan Bell on a two-year contract and signed forward Dean Wade to a multiyear deal.
College
Kansas State football players said they will boycott all team activities until administrators create a policy that would allow a student to be expelled for “openly racist, threatening or disrespectful actions.”
• Michigan’s athletic department is projecting a $26.1 million deficit for the upcoming fiscal year. The school expects athletic department revenues to drop by more than $50 million for the fiscal year that starts July 1 because of the pandemic.
• Austin Peay suspended voluntary workouts and closed its facilities after a cluster of positive tests for the coronavirus among its athletes. The Governors currently have 11 athletes who have tested positive.
Pro football
Prosecutors charging New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft with twice buying sex from massage parlor prostitutes will attempt to save their case this week by arguing to an appeals court that his rights weren’t violated when police secretly video-recorded him in the act.
Elsewhere
Italian auto racing champion turned Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi underwent a second brain surgery, 10 days after an emergency operation after a crash on his handbike. Zanardi was returned to the intensive care unit in a medically induced coma.