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As-it-happens update August 20, 2020
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ESPN
As strange as the 2020 NFL season is likely to be, there are players and coaches who have a disproportionate amount of their futures riding on how they perform over the next few months. It wouldn't have been anybody's choice to have their career path tied to ...
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ESPN
The longest offseason in our lifetime got a lot longer for the Big Ten and Pac-12 last week with the postponement of fall college football seasons. Obviously, this is a painful thing for fans of the greatest sport on the planet. To make it even worse, the ACC, Big ...
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ESPN
No assumption in baseball is more sacrosanct than this one: Lefty batters hit righty pitchers better, and righty batters hit lefty pitchers better. Hundreds of major league careers, and literally millions of managerial decisions, have depended on the reliability of ...
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ESPN
The No. 1 seeds in each conference both lost their first game of the NBA playoffs the first time since 2003, back when LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony were still NBA draft prospects and not grizzled veterans. One of that dynamic duo is going home early ...
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ESPN
The countdown to the 2020-21 Premier League season has begun, with the publication of the fixture list enabling clubs and supporters to pinpoint if they have a tough start, when they will face their biggest rivals and which teams stand in the way of success or ...
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nj.com
Giants outside linebacker Lorenzo Carter lined up opposite first-round pick offensive tackle Andrew Thomas during Tuesday's practice, and ushered in Thomas' "Welcome to the NFL" moment, getting the best of the Georgia alum with a power move.
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nj.com
The broadcasting career of play-by-play announcer Thom Brennaman is in doubt Thursday after he was suspended by the Cincinnati Reds for uttering an anti-gay slur on the air Wednesday during the second game of a doubleheader with the Kansas City ...
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Baltimore Sun
As disheartening as a three-game sweep to the Toronto Blue Jays was for the Orioles this week, their surprising start to the season still has them as a .500 club with 40% of their games completed. It's unclear if the top pick in the 2021 draft will indeed go to the ...
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nj.com
The first of probably many Gerrit Cole/Aaron Boone one-sided tiffs went down Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium. This was a just the best pitcher on the planet, one who has won his last 20 decisions and hasn't lost any of his last 28 starts, becoming furious ...
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cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Browns linebacker Mack Wilson suffered a hyperextended left knee in practice on Tuesday and it remains unclear how long he will be out. Wilson shared posts on social media Wednesday that indicated he could be out for a significant ...
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Yahoo Sports
Four games in, the Capitals finally have their first win. Washington won Game 4 on Tuesday against the New York Islanders to stave off elimination and force a Game 5. Game 4 was easily the Caps' best of the series, but it wasn't good enough. Yes, it was a ...
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Washington Post
OAKLAND, Calif. — Manager Bob Melvin always expects resiliency from his Oakland Athletics. Mark Canha hit a two-run homer, Robbie Grossman got things going with a two-run double in the first to back Jesús Luzardo, and the A's beat the Arizona ...
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Forbes
The reigning Super Bowl champions may be the team to beat, but the Kansas City Chiefs took a hit to the one positional group that is most lacking on the team. Addressing news that had long been speculated, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid confirmed that ...
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Washington Post
Few players mean as much to a club as Jesús Navas does to Sevilla. The links are so strong that the 34-year-old Navas already has a stadium named after him at the club's training center in Seville. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. "Navas is part of ...
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Sporting News
Reds right-hander Trevor Bauer is among MLB's most vocal critics of commissioner Rob Manfred. He doesn't care for the Astros, who were caught electronically stealing signs, either. Bauer antagonized both parties Wednesday with a pair of custom cleats ...
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nj.com
Let's get this out of the way: The Yankees don't need any one individual player in baseball. Depth and waves of talent is what makes the franchise so good, and such a sustainable force. Add in incredible resources allowing for the pursuit of a Gerrit Cole or ...
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Forbes
The Chicago Bulls have become used to the No. 7 pick. The Bulls acquired the No. 7 pick as part of the Jimmy Butler trade in 2017 and wound up with Lauri Markkanen in that spot. In 2018, Chicago won a tiebreaker over the Sacramento Kings to move into ...
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247Sports
The Miami Dolphins are finishing up their first week of practice in full pads and first-round pick Tua Tagovailoa has been as good as advertised in terms of velocity and accuracy with the second and third-teamers, showing no ill effects in his return from a hip ...
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Yahoo Sports
Kylian Mbappe is 'guaranteed' to win the Ballon d'Or as he is already among the best three players in the world alongside Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, according to Louis Saha. Still just 21, Mbappe has enjoyed another spectacular season with 30 ...
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Jackson Clarion Ledger
STARKVILLE – Erroll Thompson never thought about opting out of the 2020 college football season. The Mississippi State senior linebacker's reasoning was both straightforward and sentimental. "I love football too much to opt out," he said. College football ...
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ESPN
In a memo emailed to students and faculty Wednesday, the University of Mississippi said 13 athletes and one employee tested positive for the coronavirus, constituting an outbreak according to the Mississippi State Department of Health's guidelines. Of the 13 ...
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The Blue Testament
Sporting Kansas City are back! Again! Major League Soccer has been very start/stop with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic hitting the world hard. Friday will be an attempt to restart league play in an 18-game sprint to the finish before jamming in the MLS Cup ...
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FIFA.com
Following a request by the chairwoman of the investigatory chamber, and in accordance with article 85 of the FIFA Code of Ethics (FCE), the provisional ban imposed on 25 May 2020 on Yves Jean-Bart, the President of the Haitian Football Association (FHF), ...
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Tampa Bay Times
In accordance with the surrealism of 2020, USF's non-conference football schedule may be transitioning from decimated to dazzling, courtesy of two words. Fighting Irish. Reports from South Bend late Wednesday indicate the Bulls are close to filling one of the ...
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The Columbus Dispatch
Ready or not, fall contact sports are all-systems-go after getting the OK from Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday to compete. While athletes and coaches alike were ecstatic, they realize that nothing will be normal about this coronavirus-threatened season, ...
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The Denver Channel
When it comes to Olympic tickets, the Latin expression "caveat emptor" often applies: "Let the buyer beware." The unprecedented postponement of the Tokyo Olympics has left buyers of millions of tickets in a quandary. Will the games happen next year?
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
If Vikings fans are allowed inside U.S. Bank Stadium for the Sept. 13 opener against the Packers, they will see a less-cluttered sideline. Fans will not see purple-clad cheerleaders or Viktor the Viking, the team's mascot, on the field. There will be no sideline ...
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Washington Post
Arrieta (1-3) took the loss Wednesday at Boston after surrendering four runs on five hits across 4.1 innings. He had three strikeouts and four walks. The veteran right-hander entered Wednesday having issued only two walks this season, but he struggled with ...
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syracuse.com
The New York Red Bulls face New York City F.C. in a regular season game at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J. on Thursday, August 20, 2020 (8/20/2020) as Major League Soccer returns to home markets following the MLS is Back Tournament. Both teams sit ...
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The Daily Collegian Online
The constant hum of student sections and alumni both celebrating and jeering, once commonplace at Penn State, will turn to silence this fall. Once the Big Ten officially announced the cancellation of football and the rest of the fall sports seasons due to the ...
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Massive Report
By the time Thursday's game against the Chicago Fire kicks off, it will have been 21 days since Columbus Crew SC took the field in an official match. It will also be 174 days since the Black & Gold last played a game at MAPFRE Stadium. The Crew had a ...
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Newsday
NEW YORK - (AP) -- The United States could start qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Trinidad, where the Americans flopped on the final night three years ago and failed to reach the 2018 tournament. "We know what happened last time around, and it could ...
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The Daily Collegian Online
Penn State has said that students and employees "should practice social distancing, avoid large gatherings and wear face masks while on campus, as well as within their local communities in line with local and state requirements" in past press releases ...
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Times Colonist
Mitch Berger can feel the Toronto Blue Jays' pain. The Blue Jays are playing most of their 30 home games this season in Buffalo, N.Y., after the Canadian government rejected their plan to use Rogers Centre. Ottawa cited the cross-border travel by ...
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