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As-it-happens update October 19, 2020
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ESPN
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- After the New England Patriots slipped under .500 for the first time this deep into a season since 2002, quarterback Cam Newton expressed confidence in a turnaround. "There's no need to press the panic button. There's no need to ...
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CBSSports.com
The ACC has been playing for five weeks, the SEC just wrapped up its third week of action, and next week we'll get the Big Ten back on the field -- which means even more quarterbacks with NFL aspirations to evaluate. For now, let's review the weekend ...
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ESPN
While the Dodgers have been wire-to-wire favorites, the Rays have been underdogs from the beginning. Tampa Bay entered the regular season as a midtier contender in sportsbooks' eyes, with 18-1 odds to win the World Series. The Rays could be found as ...
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Sporting News
And then there were three ... and one. There are only three undefeated teams left in the 2020 NFL season coming out of Week 6, and the two AFC membes of the club, Pittsburgh and Tennessee, made different kind of statements. Their delayed matchup next ...
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NHL.com
Mike "Doc" Emrick retired Monday after a 47-year career broadcasting professional hockey, including the last 15 as the lead play-by-play voice for the NHL on NBC. The 74-year-old will still contribute to NBC Sports by occasionally writing and narrating video ...
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Sporting News
The running back position is seemingly always banged up, and after a week that was relatively kind to the position, Week 6 took out a few more top fantasy football contributors. Miles Sanders, Raheem Mostert, and Mark Ingram all exited their games early with ...
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ESPN
Cincinnati Reds vice president and general manager Nick Krall will run the franchise's baseball operations department, assuming the role previously held by Dick Williams. The Reds announced the decision Monday, 12 days after Williams' abrupt resignation ...
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Yahoo Sports
With the victory laps taken over a 166-yard, two-touchdown performance from Tom Brady Sunday, it's well-established that Patriots fans have lowered the bar for what they consider a great quarterback performance. Still, I'll try: How do we think Cam Newton ...
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WDSU New Orleans
Tiger Stadium can hold a capacity of 25 percent currently, which would be nearly 26,000 fans in the stands. Late last week, Saints VP of Communications Greg Bensel released a statement regarding the team working with LSU regarding their future home ...
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Yahoo Sports
A mere 51 days after Bayern Munich lifted the 2019-20 trophy in Lisbon, the Champions League carousel starts up once again on Tuesday. Read on for Yahoo Soccer's comprehensive guide to the group stage.
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FOXSports.com
By Bob Pockrass. Joey Logano won the opening race of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs semifinal round and used that to catapult him to a championship. He hopes history can repeat itself in 2020, as he opened the round of eight with a victory Sunday ...
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Washington Times
Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry is powering past modern NFL conventions and into the MVP conversation. Because while a workhorse power runner may be a dinosaur overall, Henry still roams the Earth. And he's putting opponents who get in ...
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Sports Illustrated
CINCINNATI — The Bengals blew a 21-point first half lead in Sunday's 31-27 loss to the Colts. They fall to 1-4-1 on the season. Here's a look at the playtime percentage and snap counts for each player on the team. Screen Shot 2020-10-19 at 8.32.32 AM.
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The New York Times
Touchdowns win football games. Turnovers win football games. Dominating the line of scrimmage wins football games. But sometimes it's 2-point conversions that win (or lose) football games. Sunday wasn't the best day for execution, or decision making, ...
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FOXSports.com
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams proved they can dominate the NFL's worst division with four wins over the hapless NFC East. If they want to truly be a contender they will need to raise their game so they can compete with the tougher ...
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Chicago Tribune
Every once in a while, fantasy football can still surprise you. A rookie running back did just that in Week 6. Chances are that by midseason, other rookies or second- or third-year players will do the same. They key is predicting which ones will click just in time to ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
There are a number of ways to overreact to the Steelers' 38-7 pounding of the Browns on Sunday at Heinz Field. There are many things that could be construed as takeaways that would largely be reactionary. "The Steelers look like Super Bowl contenders" ...
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Sporting News
Joe Buck is in for a busy week of announcing major sporting events. The Fox Sports announcer will call some sort of major sporting event every single day during the week of Oct. 18. From Sunday to Saturday, Buck is set for non-stop action as he'll be ...
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Steelers.com
You've heard of statement games. This wasn't a statement game. This was more of a message game, and it was the Steelers who delivered the message. When the sixth weekend of the 2020 NFL season began, the (4-0) Steelers were one of three ...
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TribLIVE
8 minutes ago. The Steelers still haven't beaten a good team. Cleveland certainly isn't a good team. The Browns are 0-2 against Baltimore and Pittsburgh, losing those games by a combined 76-13. Quarterback Baker Mayfield (aka Johnny Manziel Jr.) is a ...
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Forbes
With the 2019-20 season officially in our rearview mirror, the Milwaukee Bucks are about to embark on their most important offseason in franchise history. Not only will they have the opportunity to extend franchise centerpiece and reigning two-time MVP ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Tributes to Sid Hartman have poured in from throughout sports: Coach, players, team executives and other have shared their memories. Here's where Star Tribune readers talk about the 100-year-old columnist who died on Sunday. Their words are taken from ...
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Forbes
Who would have predicted that Aston Villa would be the last side in England's top four leagues to have a 100% record at the start of the 2020/21 Premier League season? Perhaps even more surprising is Villa's defensive record. Only Norwich City conceded ...
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Comcast SportsNet Bay Area
Welcome to the post-bubble edition of the NBA Power Rankings. The Lakers have been crowned champs, but every team's record is back to 0-0 as we head into the most uncertain offseason in NBA history. Can the Warriors return to greatness after a down ...
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syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. — Clemson and Alabama, the two programs that dominated the last decade of college football, begin a new one in a familiar place: the top of the polls. Clemson, headlined by a historically great backfield in Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etienne, ...
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Tacoma News Tribune
Russell Wilson and the Seahawks gained this weekend—while having a backyard, quarantine pumpkin patch and family infield practice. Seattle's franchise quarterback was all dad during the team's bye weekend off.
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syracuse.com
Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse football just suffered through the ultimate October surprise in losing to Liberty 38-21 at the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Syracuse is 1-4, and merely getting another win in the 2020 season now seems like a gargantuan task.
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Royals Review
Royals Rumblings - News for October 19, 2020. Jeffrey Flanagan takes questions for his mailbag, with an interesting answer for the immediate future of Bobby Witt, Jr. Does Witt have a shot to make the Opening Day roster? — @hanan_kent. The one ...
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The Indianapolis Star
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue's Jeff Brohm isn't ruling out he'll be on the sidelines for Saturday's game against Iowa but it's probably a longshot. On Monday, Brohm confirmed he tested positive for COVID-19. On Sunday, Brohm returned a presumed positive ...
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Quad City Times
Game week has returned for the Iowa football team and the Hawkeye 10@10 is back as well, serving up a daily dose of Iowa news and notes. Join us daily at 10 a.m. at hawkmania.com and qctimes.com throughout the season for the latest in all things Iowa.
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Bicycling
This season's final grand tour is always one of the hardest and most exciting races of the year. The Tour of Spain (or Vuelta a España) was originally scheduled to be held from late-August through early-September, but COVID-19 pushed the race to ...
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AthlonSports.com
As is rapidly becoming an overall sports tradition in 2020, college football is being played at a fluid pace. With this in mind, it's time to take a step back and reassess. Especially after the extremely loud insistence by Nebraska and other key Big Ten schools that ...
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desmoinesregister.com
A matchup of men's basketball teams expected to be in the preseason top 10 nationally is officially set: Iowa vs. Gonzaga on Dec. 19 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The high-profile game was announced Monday morning by the ...
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Goal.com
The German head coach has confirmed that the defender "will be out for a while" after limping out of the Premier League clash with Everton. Jurgen Klopp has promised that Liverpool will support Virgil van Dijk "like a good wife is waiting when the husband is ...
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Cincinnati.com
Former Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price - who had two years remaining on his contract as the Philadelphia Phillies' pitching coach - announced Sunday that he's retiring to spend time with his family, a decision Phils manager Joe Girardi said "shocked" ...
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Sumter Item
The entire Sumter High School junior varsity football team is under quarantine for two weeks after playing against a St. James team on Thursday that had two players who had tested positive for coronavirus. According to a story by Nick Masuda of Post and ...
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Observer Online
Observer Sports Staff | Monday, October 19, 2020. No. 14 Notre Dame suffered a second consecutive home loss in a 2-1 defeat to No. 4 Clemson Sunday afternoon in the home finale for the Irish (3-3, 3-3 ACC) at Alumni Stadium. Irish freshman forward Ellie ...
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West Hawaii Today
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Ryan Fitzpatrick blocked on a running play, improvised a left-handed completion and led cheers for his replacement during mop-up time Sunday. Least remarkably, he beat the New York Jets. Everybody is doing that. ADVERTISING ...
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Toledo Blade
The University of Toledo head men's basketball coach Tod Kowalczyk has tested positive for coronavirus, the university announced Monday morning. Kowalcyzk will self-isolate for 10 days and has released this statement: ...
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On Tap Sports Net
You saw the Nomar Mazara Experience, right? It was truly one of the most gut-wrenching sights of the 2020 White Sox season. The offseason acquisition that the team was hoping would fill the void in right field failed miserably. The left-hand hitting Mazara hit ...
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Tomahawk Take
The elimination game. The cliches are abundant: "win or go home", "all or nothing", "all hands on deck", and such. For the Atlanta Braves, though, the "anything can happen" phrase is one they know all too well. 2019. A Game 5 in the best-of-5 series vs. the St.
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Financial Express
After defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore off the last ball, KXIP once again found themselves taking the run chase too deep against Mumbai, leading the game to two Super Overs on Sunday. Kings XI Punjab batsman Chris Gayle plays a shot during the ...
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CyclingTips
From 2021, Team Jumbo-Visma will start its own women's professional and development cycling teams. The expansion of the team is being supported by its main sponsors Jumbo and Visma, as well as Parkhotel Valkenburg also committed to the new ...
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hoopsrumors.com
Victor Oladipo is also eligible for an extension, but it might be tricky for him and the Pacers to arrive at a mutually acceptable figure. The team can offer a new deal that starts at around $26MM — 120% of his salary for next season.
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Chiefs Digest
In preparation for the Buffalo Bills, the Kansas City Chiefs coaching staff hasn't really had a chance to think about how they'll use recently signed running back Le'Veon Bell. Due to COVID-19 protocols, Bell can't even join the Chiefs until he passes a ...
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Saints Wire
How did the NFC South race shake up with the New Orleans Saints sidelined for their bye week? The Buccaneers, New Orleans' chief competition for a fourth consecutive division title, won their game handily, and the Falcons pulled off a surprising road win.
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