Tom Taylor

Topps has issued a trading card of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, throwing out the first pitch of the MLB season last week.   The card   was only available for 24 hours, under the company’s Topps...

Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving is sitting out the NBA restart as he continues rehabilitation after undergoing surgery on his right shoulder in March. But following discussions with a group of WNBA players, including Natasha Cloud and Jewell Loyd, Irving...

At the end of last week, both Michigan State and Rutgers announced that their football teams would enter a 14-day quarantine following spikes of positive COVID-19 tests among players. Michigan State took the decision to shut down after one staff member and one athlete tested positive. Rutgers made...

On Friday, the NFL’s owners and its players’ association both agreed to revisions to the NFL collective bargaining agreement aimed at ensuring the 2020 season can go ahead in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. One revision allows players to opt out of the season by Aug. 3....

Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams was given permission on Thursday to attend a viewing of his grandfather, Paul G. Williams, who recently died. However, during Williams’s trip to Atlanta, he was caught visiting a strip club called Magic City—rapper Jack Harlow posted, and then later deleted, a...

Navigation giant Garmin was forced to take all of its systems down last Thursday after ransomware spread across its computers, encrypting files and demanding a reported $10 million fee for restoring access. The extended outage has affected not just athletes who use Garmin products to log workouts, but...

We share some of the best photos from the worlds of sports and technology every day in our newsletter. Subscribe to the SportTechie Daily   here . The National Women’s Soccer League is closing in on the first big success...

When Fox Sports broadcasts its first MLB games of the 2020 season tomorrow, the network plans to overlay CGI fans on empty bleachers and add crowd noise to make vacant stadiums appear full. Fox is collaborating with Silver Spoon Animation and SMT, and its using an augmented reality...

If fans are allowed into stadiums to watch NFL games this fall, they will be required to wear masks, regardless of local government rules. Several teams, including the Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers and Jacksonville Jaguars, had previously announced their own mask requirements. Yesterday, NFL spokesperson   ...

With rookie training camps set to begin tomorrow, quarterbacks and injured players due back on Thursday, and all other players scheduled to report next Monday, the NFL outlined details of its coronavirus-related protocols last Friday. But over the weekend, star players, including Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks Drew Brees, Russell...