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As-it-happens update August 21, 2020
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The NCAA Division I board of directors voted Friday to give all fall sport student-athletes an additional year of eligibility and an additional year to complete it through a blanket waiver. The move eliminates a cloud of uncertainty for athletes in fall sports whose ...
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ESPN
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In another loss for the Jacksonville Jaguars defensive line, the NFL announced Friday that Josh Mauro would be suspended for five games without pay for violating the NFL's policy on performance-enhancing drugs. It's the second PED ...
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ESPN
More scheduling changes impact the fantasy baseball calendar, as there are three rescheduled games (at publishing time) in Week 5. The Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals plan a doubleheader for Thursday at St. Louis' Busch Stadium, making up for ...
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ESPN
The NBA's board of governors discussed the delaying of the mid-October NBA draft and start of free agency on a call with commissioner Adam Silver on Friday, sources told ESPN. The possibility of delaying those two events -- an idea with growing support ...
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Yahoo Sports
Expectations understandably are high for No. 1 overall draft pick Joe Burrow at Cincinnati Bengals camp. And to date, the reports on his performance in the early going have been mostly terrific. Not mistake-free, mind you — but even on his poor plays, Burrow ...
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ESPN
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Royals placed catcher Salvador Perez on the injured list with lingering vision problems and recalled Randy Rosario to add a left-handed arm in the bullpen ahead of their three-game series against the Minnesota Twins on Friday ...
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BaltimoreRavens.com
Patrick Queen loves to read and react, and he has used that approach to learn quickly during training camp. The Ravens' first-round draft pick is expected to start at inside linebacker, which makes every practice crucial. On the field, he has been showing the ...
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Sports Illustrated
2019 AP Defensive Player of the Year Stephon Gilmore has been absent from the last two New England Patriots practices. But it doesn't appear to be a cause for concern. Gilmore is attending to a personal matter, which is why he has not been present at ...
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Forbes
A quartet of favorites winning on Thursday may have dampened the chaos of the NBA bubble to a degree, but the first two games of each first-round series have featured a deep slate of surprises. Both No. 1 seeds went down in Game 1, the Clippers dropped ...
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Yahoo Sports
NEW YORK (AP) -- All-Star shortstop Gleyber Torres and left-hander James Paxton have joined the New York Yankees' crowded injured list. Torres had an MRI on Friday that revealed mild strains in his left hamstring and quad, while Paxton had an MRI on ...
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Sports Illustrated
Having 15 percent of a single coaching staff share the same genes isn't exactly commonplace in the NFL, but the Patriots hold that distinction heading into the 2020 season. New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has been with the team for 20 ...
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Yahoo Sports
With each home run, Mitch Moreland transforms himself into the perfect rental. Despite a modest two-game winning streak, the Red Sox project to be sellers leading into Major League Baseball's Aug. 31 trade deadline, and Moreland suddenly looks like a ...
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USA TODAY
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The Patriots announced the signing of Cam Newton on July 8. The team wouldn't have their first practice until Aug. 11. Pads didn't come on until Monday. At this rate, Newton has been thrown into the fire with a playbook that he didn't ...
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detroitlions.com
Cornerback Jeff Okudah laid out during a team period in Thursday's practice at Allen Park for the Detroit Lions to knock a pass away from a receiver. He undercut an in-route by wide receiver Kenny Golladay early in Friday's practice to force an incomplete ...
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Sports Illustrated
Notre Dame has played outstanding defense in recent seasons, but the offense hasn't been what it needs to be in the big games. The Irish staff must go out and land top offensive players to get to the level where the offense is as good as the defense.
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FOXSports.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Wide receiver Tyreek Hill has only a minor hamstring strain and the Kansas City Chiefs intend to be cautious with their dynamic playmaker, who missed practice Friday after pulling up while running a route the previous day. That wasn't ...
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NBCSports.com
The Phillies made a trade Friday, sending right-handed reliever Addison Russ, who pitched last season at Double A, to the Yankees for 32-year-old right-hander David Hale, according to The Athletic. From a Phillies perspective ... at least it's something.
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Yahoo Sports
In the end, the ping-pong balls didn't bounce the Warriors' way. Well, not entirely. The Warriors wound up with the No. 2 overall pick in Thursday night's 2020 NBA Draft Lottery, with the Minnesota Timberwolves grabbing the top pick. That's not a bad thing, ...
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CBSSports.com
On Friday, Churchill Downs announced that this year's Kentucky Derby will run without fans. The 146th Kentucky Derby is scheduled for September 5, 2020. They released a statement explaining the decision to the fans: "With the current significant increases ...
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The New York Times
TROON, Scotland — As if Royal Troon isn't playing hard enough for the world's top female golfers this week, Dani Holmqvist is going around the wind-swept Scottish links carrying a nagging back injury from a cart crash in 2018. It is not stopping the Swedish ...
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DallasCowboys.com
FRISCO, Texas – Running back Tony Pollard summed up CeeDee Lamb's first week with the Dallas Cowboys in four words. "He's worth the hype," Pollard said after Friday's practice. A half-hour earlier, Lamb ended practice with a leaping touchdown catch ...
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Morton (shoulder) is not expected to come off the injured list and make a start in the weekend series against the Blue Jays, Alyson Footer of MLB.com reports. There had been some optimism Morton would be able to show enough progress to come off the ...
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Yahoo Sports
A look at what's happening around the majors today: SAN DIEGO SLAMMERS. The Padres have hit grand slams in four straight games, the only team in big league history to accomplish the feat. Eric Hosmer extended the streak when he connected Thursday ...
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Washington Post
COLOGNE, Germany — Romelu Lukaku played a part in both teams' goals as Sevilla beat Inter Milan 3-2 on Friday to win the Europa League for a record-extending sixth time. The Inter forward deflected Diego Carlos' overhead kick into his own net for ...
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Sports Illustrated
Chelsea are on the verge of signing Leicester City and England international Ben Chilwell this summer. The 23-year-old has been Frank Lampard's priority as he looks to sort out the Blues' defence this summer and Chelsea are getting closer to landing him.
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Salt Lake Tribune
The 2020 Major League Soccer season has felt like that childhood game Red Light, Green Light with all the stops and starts it's had due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But for now, it's green light. Ten teams have already restarted their seasons in the last few ...
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National Post
Joe Pavelski was starting to get up off the ice after being knocked down in the front of the net when a puck came whizzing toward his head. "Saw this black thing coming my way and just trying to get out of the way," said Pavelski, the veteran center who in his ...
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U.S. News & World Report
Jimmie Johnson is at the win-or-else stage of his playoff push as he hits his favorite track. Johnson has a record 11 victories at Dover International Speedway, a staggering total that started in 2002 and stretched to June 2017, a win that has stood for three-plus ...
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Chattanooga Times Free Press
During the decade-long stretch in which either Kirby Smart or Jeremy Pruitt coordinated Alabama's defense, there was not a more consistent and imposing entity in college football. The Crimson Tide's national championship teams in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 ...
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247Sports
Ahmari Harvey, one of the top safety recruits in the 2021 recruiting class, announced his commitment to Auburn live Friday afternoon on CBS Sports HQ. Harvey chose the Tigers over fellow finalists Florida State and Texas A&M. The industry-generated ...
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9News.com KUSA
DENVER — There was a special guest watching the Broncos training camp practice Friday. Actually, Peyton Manning is a frequent guest. The former Broncos quarterback great and Denver resident stops by to watch a camp practice or two every year since ...
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Press of Atlantic City
A day after an epic bullpen collapse, the Philadelphia Phillies began to try to fix a season-long problem. The Phillies traded minor-league reliever Addison Russ to the New York Yankees for veteran reliever David Hale on Friday afternoon. Philadelphia (9-12) ...
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Saturday Tradition
LINCOLN — More cost-saving measures are on the way at Nebraska in the wake of a postponed fall football season, the athletic department announced in a statement Friday. With the door closed on Big Ten fall football — and the looming consequential ...
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Lansing State Journal
The emojis with sad faces were among the text messages received by St. Johns volleyball coach Katy White after she delivered to her team the latest update from the Michigan High School Athletic Association regarding their season. Even White admits to, first ...
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USA TODAY
A Montreal player got ejected for a hit from behind. A Philadelphia player faces suspension for a cross check to the face. This is the classic Canadiens-Flyers series that history showed was coming. Don't expect players to engage in an all-out brawl in ...
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The Coloradoan
The Denver Broncos will not have fans in attendance when they host the Tennessee Titans on Monday Night Football in Week 1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Broncos announced Monday that they will not host fans at Empower Field at Mile High for ...
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ESPN
NORTON, Mass. -- Phil Mickelson has work to do before next month's U.S. Open at Winged Foot, the site of one of his most bitter major championship disappointments. After a second-round 68 at the Northern Trust on Friday put him firmly outside the cut line ...
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KIRO Seattle
The National Hockey League condemned an "insensitive and insulting" comment against women made by analyst Mike Milbury during Thursday night's telecast of a Stanley Cup playoff game, saying the broadcaster's words did not reflect the league's stance ...
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TribLIVE
11 minutes ago. Wide receiver Diontae Johnson and safety Terrell Edmunds were starters who sat out Friday's Pittsburgh Steelers practice because of injury, coach Mike Tomlin confirmed during a Zoom call after the session at Heinz Field. Tomlin did not ...
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KSAT San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO – While the fall schedule keeps changing and adapting for the UTSA football team, it appears that volleyball and soccer will have to wait for their first taste of competition. On Friday afternoon, Conference USA announced that fall team sports, ...
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Washington Post
INDIANAPOLIS — It was the saddest Carb Day in Indianapolis 500 history. The Snake Pit sat silent in the empty infield, no sign of any rowdy revelers who turn an important day at the track into Indiana's biggest party. Support our journalism. Subscribe today.
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USCHO
Arizona State defenseman and co-captain Josh Maniscalco, who completed his sophomore season in 2019-20, has signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Maniscalco will forgo his last two seasons of NCAA eligibility.
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Casino.Org News
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says his sports media company is interested in pursuing the naming rights to the NFL Buffalo Bills stadium. Barstool Sports Dave Portnoy Buffalo Bills. Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports (right) plans to make a bid for the ...
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Cowboys Wire
Mike McCarthy is unquestionably a no-nonsense guy. Maybe it stems from his upbringing in the Rust Belt, where he grew up surrounded by honest blue-collar folk. Perhaps it was honed by his long and storied tenure in Green Bay, where smalltown sensibility ...
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outlooknewspapers.com
Collin Morikawa officially cemented himself as one of the top professional golfers in the world last Sunday by claiming the PGA Championship, the first major title of his career. The La Cañada Flintridge native finished 13-under par to earn his third PGA Tour ...
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