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Patrick Mahomes: 'No slowing down' for Andy Reid -- or Chiefs Looking ahead in the NFL world has never been quite like it is in today's landscape. However, in the case of Patrick Mahomes -- fresh off signing a blockbuster 10-year, $450 million extension -- and the reigning Super Bowl-champion Kansas City Chiefs, ...
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Senator says NBA shouldn't limit its social messages on jerseys U.S. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, in a letter to NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Friday, wrote that the league's policy on social injustice messages "appears to stop at the edge of your corporate sponsors' sensibilities," especially when it came to matters ...
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Julio Jones – not Michael Thomas – is named the best wide receiver in the NFL The NFL currently has some of the most talented wide receivers it's ever seen, from Michael Thomas to DeAndre Hopkins and Odell Beckham Jr. But in the eyes of NFL executives, scouts and players, one pass-catcher rises above the rest: Julio Jones.
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Blue Jays player expresses concern about bubble isolation TORONTO (AP) — Blue Jays infielder Travis Shaw says he's not interested in confining himself to the hotel attached to the Rogers Centre for the summer if major league baseball is granted an exemption from the Canadian government to play baseball in ...
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Couturier Repeats as Bobby Clarke Trophy Winner Created in the first season after his retirement as a player, the Bobby Clarke Trophy honors the player chosen as the Flyers most valuable player. This season, for the second straight year, center Sean Couturier was deemed team MVP by a panel of local ...
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What Buster Posey's decision means for Joey Bart, Giants' catchers Because the Giants were split into three workout groups and Buster Posey missed three days, the starting catcher had not had a lot of time to spend with top prospects Joey Bart and Patrick Bailey. The latter two worked out in the mornings, alternating reps as ...
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Lou Holtz makes Normandy reference to decry idea of no college football Former NCAA football coach Lou Holtz took major issue with the idea of no college football in the fall as a result of coronavirus concerns, arguing "there's just no way in this world you can do anything without a risk." On Thursday the Big Ten moved to a ...
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The Boom and Bust of North London Economics If you are enjoying this newsletter every Friday, we're glad. Now please pass it on to a friend (or four or five) and tell them to sign up at nytimes.com/rory. Deep down, Arsène Wenger never wanted Arsenal to leave Highbury. He knew, at the turn of the century, ...
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Friday analysis: Where has Mercedes' pace gone? Is Red Bull's step forward genuine? Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. Based on that logic, predicting anything other than a Mercedes win at this weekend's race in Austria -- the second in as many weeks to be held at the ...
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The Point: For Lakers, This Is More Resumption Than Restart Nostalgia is enticing these days. Wistfully reminiscing about pre-pandemic freedoms and pleasures we took for granted is the back door of our homes to which we are continually drawn. It's not unlike taking for granted that we feel fine until we suffer an injury ...
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The NFL and players are on a collision course over safety and money. They have weeks to avert disaster An NFL source was breaking down the league's proposal to draw back player salaries as much as 35 percent to help manage revenue losses in 2020. Framing it as an ask that was just the tip of the iceberg, the source said it foreshadowed a coming fight that ...
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FedEx is putting the pressure on Washington to change its nickname immediately FedEx, the title sponsor of FedEx Field where the Washington Redskins play their home games, has officially informed the franchise that it will remove its name and signage from the stadium if the franchise does not change its nickname by the end of the 2020 ...
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No NHL return for Pavel Datsyuk, who signs one-year deal to stay in KHL If there was a glimmer of hope that Pavel Datsyuk might return to the NHL for 2020-21, that is now gone. Datsyuk signed a one-year deal with Yekaterinburg Automobilist (or Ekaterinburg Avtomobilist) keeping the former Red Wings star in the KHL.
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FedEx Says Adios Unless Team Name Changes The Washington NFL team found out more information than just a simple yet powerful request by FedEx to change their name last week. Per the Washington Post's Liz Clarke - they also were notified that FedEx would remove all of their signage from ...
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Malcolm Jenkins says DeSean Jackson was wrong, but asks to "stay focused" Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins doesn't approve of former Eagles teammate DeSean Jackson's comments this week, but he also doesn't want to get bogged down in a problem he perceives as being not his own. Jenkins posted an Instagram video in which he ...
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Steve Kerr, Warriors will approach Chicago bubble 'like summer league' Steve Kerr made headlines a month ago when he said the Warriors would not be interested in participating in some sort of summer league with the teams not playing in Orlando. On Thursday, Golden State's coach provided an update on his perspective as a ...
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Jadon Sancho and Kai Havertz: How Close Are We to This Summer's Biggest Deals? Jadon Sancho and Kai Havertz are expected to be the two biggest transfers of this summer—but how close are we getting to their moves? A report in Bild (per Daily Mail) suggests Borussia Dortmund are setting a deadline of August 10 for a deal to be struck ...
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Top 2020 Seahawks Training Camp Storylines: Will The Offense Look Different This Year? With Seahawks training camp set to kick off later this month, Seahawks.com is taking a look at 12 of the team's most intriguing storylines, position battles and players heading into the 2020 season. Yesterday we kicked things off with a look at a defense trying ...
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NFL Exec: Cowboys' Amari Cooper Was Best FA WR but 'I Didn't Want to Sign Him' At least one NFL front-office person believes there is a hole in Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Amari Cooper's game that he needs to improve in order to reach the next level. As part of an article written by ESPN's Jeremy Fowler in which more than 50 league ...
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Gallo joins Rangers after missed week due to positive test ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — All-Star slugger Joey Gallo joined the Texas Rangers for the first time at summer camp Friday after missing the first week of workouts because he had tested positive for coronavirus. Gallo never felt any symptoms, but had two ...
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A's to use San Jose as alternate training site for 2020 MLB season The A's officially have chosen their alternate site for players to train during the 2020 MLB season. Oakland will use Excite Ballpark in San Jose -- the home of the Single-A San Jose Giants -- as the designated alternate site for the season, the team announced ...
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Michigan HC Jim Harbaugh: Team That Signs Colin Kaepernick 'Will Be Very Happy' Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh encouraged NFL teams to give free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick a chance for the 2020 season. Harbaugh, who served as Kaepernick's coach with the San Francisco 49ers from 2011 through 2014, spoke ...
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"OL Masterminds Summit" proceeds in Texas this weekend They're calling it the "OL Masterminds Summit." The litmus test as to whether the individuals participating are truly "masterminds" is whether they'll realize that they shouldn't attend. Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News explains that the event, featuring ...
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2020 Workday Charity Open live stream, watch online, TV channel, coverage, golf schedule, radio A one-of-a-kind event teed off Thursday morning in Ohio as the Workday Charity Open starts at Muirfield Village. This event takes the place of the canceled John Deere Classic and features some of the top players in the world taking on this amazing course for ...
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Comparing the Braves 2020 schedule to the rest of the NL East division For me, this week has been both exciting and unsettling. Like many of you, I am thrilled to have baseball back, as any sign that sports is returning to our world is great. However, also like many of you, I am anxious knowing that COVID-19 is a reality that is not ...
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Rare July Blue Grass Stakes in Cross Country Pick Five July racing at Keeneland seems a bit surreal, but they've stacked six stakes of the grade 1 or grade 2 variety into the only Saturday of an abbreviated meet, spotlighted by the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2) and Central Bank Ashland Stakes (G1), which are ...
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Wimbledon to allocate prize money despite cancellation WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Wimbledon will pay out $12.5 million in prize money to 620 players despite the tournament's cancellation because of the coronavirus pandemic, the All England Club said Friday. After consulting with its insurance provider, club ...
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Golf: Morikawa tames Muirfield to grab six-shot clubhouse lead (Reuters) - Collin Morikawa had never played Muirfield Village Golf Club prior to this week but one would hardly know by looking at his scorecard as he moved into a six-shot, second-round clubhouse lead at the Workday Charity Open in Dublin, Ohio on ...
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No Big Ten? No problem. ACC has Notre Dame football scheduling issues covered A month ago Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly spoke confidently about the school's contingency plans for its 2020 football schedule in case COVID-19 coaxed Power Five football into becoming a conference-only venture in the months ahead. On Thursday ...
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Jordan Henderson: Kyatin ɗin Liverpool zai yi jinya har ƙarshen kakar wasan bana Kyaftin ɗin Liverpool Jordan Henderson ba zai buga wasanni huɗu da suka rage a kakar wasan bana ba saboda raunin da ya ji a gwiwarsa, a cewar manajan ƙungiyar Jurgen Klopp. Henderson ya zura kwallo a wasan da suka doke Brighton da ci 3-1 ranar ...
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Mark Madden: College sports need to tap out for fall season About an hour ago. Relaunching big-time professional sports while a pandemic rages seems ill-advised and is proving difficult. But pro athletes are adults, and get compensated appropriately. It's time to tap out with college sports, especially football.
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Baseball is back in Japan, and so are fans in the stadiums TOKYO (AP) — Japan's professional baseball league opened the delayed season three weeks ago. Now fans are back, too. After playing in empty stadiums to get started, Japan began allowing up to 5,000 fans into the games on Friday, or 50% of the stadium ...
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Evergreen Jimenez, 56, leads in record bid Vienna (AFP) - Veteran Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez rolled back the years on Friday to claim a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Austrian Open, as the 56-year-old looks to shatter his own record as the European Tour's oldest winner. Jimenez ...
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Real Madrid vs. Alaves FREE LIVE STREAM (7/10/20): Watch La Liga online | Time, USA TV, channel Real Madrid faces Alaves in a La Liga match at Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano in Madrid, Spain, on Friday, July 10, 2020 (7/10/20). Fans without cable can watch the match for free via a trial of fuboTV or Sling. The contest will be played without fans in attendance ...
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Michigan athletics reports 2 more COVID-19 cases Two more positive cases for the novel coronavirus have come back at the University of Michigan. According to updated figures released by the school's athletic department on Friday, four out of the 375 tests on student-athletes have been positive for ...
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Saints allow season ticket holders to opt out of 2020 The Saints are the latest team to let season ticket holders know that this season will be very different. Saints season ticket holders have been sent a form that allows them to choose to either get a refund on their tickets for this year or roll them over to the 2021 ...
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2020 Alsco 300 odds, predictions: NASCAR Xfinity Series picks from computer model that nailed the Daytona 500 One day after Austin Cindric pulled off a surprising win at the Shady Rays 200, the NASCAR Xfinity Series returns to Kentucky Speedway on Friday night at 8 p.m. ET for the 2020 Alsco 300. It's the 11th Xfinity Series race since May 21 as the series looks to ...
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How often does JT Realmuto wash his hands and other notes from Phillies summer camp Philadelphia Phillies' J.T. Realmuto warms up in the outfield during baseball practice at Citizens Bank Park, Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum). Matt Slocum. As a catcher, J.T. Realmuto can't social distance. The umpired hangs ...
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Source: Sporting KC player tests positive for coronavirus at MLS is Back A player for MLS club Sporting Kansas City has tested positive for the coronavirus, a team source has told ESPN's Stefano Fusaro. Neither the club nor the league has commented on the SKC case. Two clubs have already been withdrawn from the MLS is ...
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What we learned about return of fall sports from today's KHSAA Board of Control meeting Limited practices for high school fall sports in Kentucky – except for golf – will continue through at least Aug. 2, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association's Board of Control voted Friday during a meeting in Covington. KHSAA commissioner Julian Tackett ...
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Would trading for Raheem Mostert make sense for the Bears? San Francisco 49ers running back Raheem Mostert is unhappy with his contract, one that's scheduled to pay him $2.5 million in 2020, and has requested a trade, according to his agent. "After months of unproductive talks with the 49ers about fairly adjusting ...
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Update on the latest sports NBA-WILLIAMSON LAWSUIT. Court filing alleges $400K paid to Williamson family in '18. UNDATED (AP) — The legal fight over NBA rookie Zion Williamson's endorsement potential now includes an allegation his family received $400,000 from a marketing ...
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Quaker State 400 Picks, Odds for Sunday's Race Kevin Harvick, NASCAR, Quaker State 400 Kevin Harvick seeks another victory this week at the Quaker State 400 in Kentucky. (AP). We are nearly halfway through the NASCAR season, and it's clear that the driver to beat is Kevin Harvick. Harvick claimed his ...
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Five-star CB Tony Grimes plans to reclassify and enroll at UNC Virginia Beach (Va.) Princess Anne five-star cornerback Tony Grimes is planning to reclassify and enroll at North Carolina on Aug. 1, his father Deon Glover tells 247Sports. Grimes is the No. 1 cornerback and No. 7 prospect overall in the 2021 class per the ...
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No football at Trinity, Wesleyan as NESCAC becomes latest conference to cancel fall sports amid coronavirus pandemic Days after the Ivy league became the first conference to cancel sports competition through the fall, the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) followed suit, announcing Friday that conference competition for fall sports will be canceled due ...
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Joe Burrow uncertain if fans will be in the stands to begin season In an appearance on ABC News, Joe Burrow broke down what he is doing to prepare and expressed uncertainty surrounding fan attendance. Coming off of a national championship and thrilling Heisman Trophy season, Joe Burrow found himself at the ...
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Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association halts fall play CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, a conference comprised of historically black colleges, is suspending all fall sports out of concern over the COVID-19 pandemic. A statement from the conference said several of its ...
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Houston Texans: Biggest concern going into 2020 season Over the last few seasons, the biggest derailment to the Houston Texans success has been players staying healthy. This season will be no different, but it won't be confined to just playing football. A major contributor suffering a major injury has become a bit of ...
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New Jersey suspends Ukrainian table tennis betting over match-fixing concerns New Jersey sportsbooks are no longer allowing bets to be placed on Ukrainian table tennis. According to ESPN, the Sports Wagering Integrity Monitoring Association informed New Jersey regulators on July 7 of concerns that the sport's matches may be fixed.
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NJSIAA pushes back start of fall sports season If New Jersey holds a high school fall sports season, it's going to be a short one. The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association announced Friday that competition is being pushed back by approximately one month. Girls tennis teams will start on ...
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