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As-it-happens update August 19, 2020
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ESPN
Just a couple of days into full padded practices during 2020 NFL training camps and major injuries have popped up around the league. A torn Achilles tendon, a torn ACL and a concussions are among the injuries suffered early. Players such as Vince Biegel, ...
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NHL.com
Dale Hawerchuk and Wayne Gretzky were rivals in the NHL, but on Monday, the day before Hawerchuk died of cancer at 57, the two Hall of Fame forwards reminisced about when they were teammates. Gretzky, hearing Hawerchuk was not doing well, called ...
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News18
Brandon Lowe homered for the fifth time in six games, Austin Meadows also connected and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the AL East-leading New York Yankees 6-3 Tuesday night. The second-place Rays cut their deficit to 1 1/2 games in the opener of this ...
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Yahoo Sports
HOUSTON (AP) -- Myles Straw's RBI single with one out in the 11th inning lifted the Houston Astros over the Colorado Rockies 2-1 on Tuesday, extending their winning streak to a season-high six games. The back-and-forth finish came after the teams were ...
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CBSSports.com
For one game, the Houston Rockets were just fine without Russell Westbrook. On Tuesday, the Rockets beat the Thunder in every facet of the game en route to a 123-108 victory to take a 1-0 lead in their first-round series. With Westbrook out with a quad strain ...
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ESPN
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced an agreement Tuesday evening for the eight teams who were not invited to the league's restart inside a bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort to have ...
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CBSSports.com
The broad story surrounding the incident involving Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri and an Oracle Arena security guard after Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals has long been known. Ujiri, attempting to reach the court to celebrate his team's first ...
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Seahawks.com
Seahawks tight end Will Dissly is back in action after coming back from a second serious injury in as many seasons. Aug 18, 2020 at 07:21 PM. luikhj1d.jpeg. John Boyle. Seahawks.com Reporter. Twitter logo · Facebook logo · Twitter logo · Email icon
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NBA.com
Sometimes the numbers lie. Or they don't tell the whole truth. The analytics say you don't want a player who's shooting 24 percent from the 3-point line to keep firing away from deep to close out a playoff game. Jimmy Butler doesn't give a … well, let's just say ...
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ESPN
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Corey Seager singled home Austin Barnes with the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Seattle Mariners 2-1 on Tuesday for their seventh consecutive victory. Barnes scored both runs for the ...
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Yahoo Sports
BOSTON (AP) -- Bryce Harper hit a three-run homer during a seven-run sixth inning and the Philadelphia Phillies came from behind to crush Boston 13-6 on Tuesday night and send the Red Sox to their ninth consecutive loss. Rhys Hoskins, Phil Gosselin and ...
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Los Angeles Times
Another episode of Hard Knocks, another coronavirus scare. After Chargers coach Anthony Lynn revealed in the season premiere that he tested positive for COVID-19, offensive quality control coach Seth Ryan registered a positive test, which forced him into ...
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USA TODAY
Dr. Michael Ackerman, a genetic cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic, knows what launched him from the sidelines into helping to decide whether major college football is played this fall. A tweet – one that also illustrates the current confusion over whether it's ...
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New York Daily News
Only the Mets can be absolutely certain their starting pitcher is healthy the day before his outing, just to have that expectation completely vanish the next morning. Mets manager Luis Rojas was confident on Monday that David Peterson's left shoulder fatigue ...
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OCRegister
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Yastrzemski and Pablo Sandoval homered, and the San Francisco Giants snapped a five-game losing streak with an 8-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday. Yastrzemski hit his first leadoff homer when he drove ...
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cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- On Tuesday night, Carlos Santana turned back the clock and did his best imitation of Carlton Fisk in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series between Boston and Cincinnati. In that game Fisk hit a game-winning home run down the left field line ...
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Yahoo Sports
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is ever, so close to righting a wrong. Legendary Raider Tom Flores was named a 2021 finalist on Tuesday in the coaching category, a relatively new classification after years lumping them in with modern-era or senior members.
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USA TODAY
TORONTO (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored twice, including the go-ahead goal early in the third period, as Washington rallied from two goals down to beat the New York Islanders 3-2 Tuesday night and avoid a sweep in their first-round series. Evgeny Kuznetsov ...
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MiamiDolphins
It took all of one word for Eric Rowe to describe how he's feeling at the conclusion of Day 2 of padded practices in the scorching Davie sun. "Sore," Rowe said with an ear-to-ear smile on an interview that will debut on our Thursday premier of the Drive Time ...
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Yahoo Sports
Arsenal are waiting on Gabriel Magalhaes to make a decision about his next move having made an offer for the Lille defender. The 22-year-old has become sought after since the transfer window opened and the PA news agency understands Arsenal have ...
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Sports Illustrated
FRISCO - No, new Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy doesn't think Michael Gallup is "the No. 1 receiver.'' He thinks he's "a No. 1 receiver.'' And that evaluation is compliment enough for Gallup. "Let's make it clear,'' McCarthy said on Tuesday when ...
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Yahoo Sports
Forty "social distance ambassadors" will monitor the U.S. Open grounds to make sure players and others are avoiding close contact and wearing face coverings — the U.S. Tennis Association bought 500,000 masks to distribute — as part of efforts to avoid a ...
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Kansas City Star
The Chiefs' decision to allow fans — at a reduced capacity — inside Arrowhead Stadium this season followed ongoing conversations between several entities and an extensive evaluation process, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said Tuesday. But when ...
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Yahoo Sports
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Twins right-hander Kenta Maeda has a no-hitter through eight innings against the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night, setting the club record with eight consecutive strikeouts in the process. Maeda has thrown 113 pitches ...
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STLtoday.com
COLUMBIA, Mo. — When the Missouri football team kicked off its first preseason practice Monday morning the Tigers were unsure who they were preparing to face in their first game. By the afternoon, they knew. Alabama's quest for a sixth national ...
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Wolverine Maven
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan offensive tackle , is entering the NFL draft. The junior announced his plans Tuesday night on Twitter. "These last few weeks have been filled with stress and have put me in a place where I have a difficult decision to make," ...
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Forbes
The Knicks hiring of Johnnie Bryant to Tom Thibodeau's staff apparently has two aims. First, Bryant is seen as a strong player development coach who, like former Kentucky assistant Kenny Payne, fits Thibodeau's larger emphasis on player development as ...
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TribLIVE
48 minutes ago. Jacob Stallings couldn't decide which was weirder, the Pittsburgh Pirates being stuck in isolation in Cincinnati when their weekend series was postponed because of coronavirus concerns or waiting until MLB decided whether they would play ...
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Newsday
Sunday Aaron Judge sounded certain. Saturday, when he's eligible to come off the injured list, the rightfielder, placed on the IL with a right calf strain last the weekend, said he expects to be activated and in the lineup. Aaron Boone isn't quite ready to make ...
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Yahoo Sports
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles FC President Tom Penn is leaving his job to move into private business. LAFC made the surprising announcement Tuesday. Penn will remain an executive consultant for LAFC, but he is leaving to become the CEO of Co.
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Yahoo Sports
The latest transfer news in the Premier League sees Wolves rejecting an absurd request to send Raul Jimenez to Juventus, Man City back in for Kalidou Koulibaly and Man United moving on from Jadon Sancho… [ MORE: Should Messi leave Barcelona?
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The Boston Globe
Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy says the chances of David Pastrnak playing in Game 5 against the Carolina Hurricanes are "better than they were" for Game 4 in the best-of-seven first-round playoff series in Toronto. "He skated today, made it through practice, ...
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FiveThirtyEight
LeBron James is, of course, no stranger to the postseason: He has missed the playoffs only three times in his 17 seasons in the NBA, including his disastrous inaugural season with the Los Angeles Lakers. But though LeBron has been a fixture in the finals, ...
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Yahoo Sports
Angel Di Maria said Tuesday he will find it difficult to sleep after scoring in Paris Saint-Germain's 3-0 victory over RB Leipzig to reach the Champions League final. Di Maria claimed his side's second goal, which came between headed strikes from Marquinhos ...
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USA TODAY
MADRID (AP) — Real Sociedad signed former Manchester City playmaker David Silva on a two-year contract Monday. The Basque Country club picked up Silva on a free transfer after his decade-long stint at City ended. Sociedad said the 34-year-old ...
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NBC News
The Charlotte Hornets have suspended radio play-by-play broadcaster John Focke indefinitely after he used a racial slur on his Twitter account. Focke used the slur while Tweeting about [Monday's] Jazz-Nuggets playoff game. He has since deleted the tweet ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Steelers sustained their first potentially troublesome injury of training camp when rookie guard Kevin Dotson, a fourth-round draft choice who is looked upon as a potential future starter, injured his left knee in practice and was taken from the field on ...
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Rivals.com - Alabama
Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian addressed the media on Tuesday evening. Sarkisian spoke about his recent health scare and also spoke about managing Alabama's very experienced offense. Latest team nuggets (August 18 fresh) ...
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Wisconsin Public Radio News
Before it was derailed by the coronavirus pandemic, this was shaping up to be a special summer in southeast Wisconsin. Now the Democratic National Convention, originally scheduled to take place in Milwaukee, is now almost entirely online. Meanwhile, the ...
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MedicineNet
The odds are not good for college football conferences that have decided to press forward with their fall season despite the coronavirus pandemic, experts say. The Big 10 and PAC 12 have decided not to play sports in the fall, but the SEC, the Big 12 and the ...
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Nets Wire
The Brooklyn Nets were far from favorites heading into Game 1 of their first-round matchup against the Toronto Raptors on Monday, but they weren't expected to lose by 24 points. When BetMGM set the spread for Game 1, the sportsbook was giving the Nets ...
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Los Angeles Times
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich paid $1.475 million for his three-bedroom Presidio Heights condo in 2002, records show. (Vaughn Ridley / Getty Images).
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