NFL
Eli Manning has won the Pro Football Writers of America’s Good Guy
Award for his cooperation with the media.Manning, who retired after the 2019 season, has been lauded for years for his dealings with local and national media. He’s the second member of the New York Giants to win the award.
Martha Firestone Ford is stepping down as principal owner of the Detroit Lions. The Lions announced today that Ford’s daughter, Sheila Ford Hamp,
is taking over as the team’s principal owner and chairman. Hamp has been one of the team’s vice chairmen during her mother’s ownership.
NHL
Pittsburgh is out of the running to be one of the two hubs for the NHL when the league resumes its season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Penguins submitted what the club called an ”aggressive” bid to be a hub city and was among the 10 finalists – including seven in the U.S. – announced by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.
Tennis
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic announced today he and his wife have COVID-19 after he played in a series of exhibition matches he organized in Serbia and Croatia with zero social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. He is the fourth player to test positive for the illness. Djokovic, who is not showing symptoms of COVID-19, said he will remain in self-isolation for 14 days.