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As-it-happens update August 19, 2020
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NBCSports.com
It is pretty clear that, for most teams, there will be no fans in the stands during the 2020 NFL season due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Teams such as the Packers are taking this process very slowly, as they have announced a no fan policy for just the first two ...
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Bleacher Report
A new decade is upon us in the NFL, which gives us a nice opportunity to view the most recent quarter-century span from 1995 to 2019 for historical purposes. Which teams have been the most impressive in a single season? Let's rank the top 25. First, some ...
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NBCSports.com
The hits keep coming. Two days after the Eagles announced that starting defensive linemen Derek Barnett and Javon Hargrave would be out for multiple weeks with injuries, stud running back Miles Sanders appeared on the team's injury report with a ...
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CBSSports.com
Anthony Davis doesn't like playing the five. We know this because he literally said "I don't really like playing the five" at his introductory press conference with the Lakers in July, and by planting his flag so early, he managed to dictate both his team's identity ...
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ESPN
Last summer, running back Ezekiel Elliott was staying at the Diamante Cabo San Lucas Resort, in the middle of a contract dispute, while his Dallas Cowboys teammates were in Oxnard, California, for training camp. Elliott was working out on his own at a ...
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ESPN
Kansas City Chiefs starting cornerback Bashaud Breeland is expected to be suspended for the first four games of the season for a violation of the NFL's substance abuse policy, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Wednesday. The Chiefs have little ...
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CBSSports.com
Ah, small sample-size theater. It is one of the greatest allies of the informed bettor. The public overreacts to a single game and the lines move too far in response. We've now seen Game 1 of all eight first-round playoff series. Both No. 1 seeds lost. Several ...
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Yahoo Sports
For any team, health is the great unknown. And heading into the playoffs, the Celtics knew that all too well. Before the season paused, Boston's top 7 rotation players were available in the same game only eight times. But entering the playoffs, the C's were ...
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CBSSports.com
The Los Angeles Clippers and Dallas Mavericks treated us to an exciting Game 1, with the potential of this first-round series being more competitive than initially expected. The Clippers are still heavy favorites, not just for this round but for the championship, ...
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CBSSports.com
The top 125 golfers on the PGA Tour will tee it up this week at TPC Boston in Round 1 of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The Northern Trust gets underway on Thursday and will go a long way in determining who ultimately wins the playoffs and walks away with that ...
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NOLA.com
New Orleans Saints quarterback Jameis Winston (2) during an NFL football training camp practice inside the Ochsner Sports Performance Center in Metairie, La., Wednesday, July 19, 2020. ( Photo/David Grunfeld, Pool) ORG XMIT: LADG101. David Grunfeld ...
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Yahoo Sports
Tom Brady is, among other things, the greatest NFL draft steal in history. As you might know, the New England Patriots selected Brady with the 199th overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft. Six Super Bowl rings later, Brady has become arguably the greatest ...
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Yahoo Sports
There aren't many opportunities for NFL assistant coaches to get a taste of a head coaching job without their boss being fired, but Eagles assistant head coach and running backs coach Duce Staley got one this summer. Head coach Doug Pederson tested ...
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Yahoo Sports
Paris Saint-Germain fans fear Neymar could miss the Champions League final after he swapped shirts with an opponent after Tuesday night's victory against RB Leipzig. The Brazilian superstar was seen swapping shirts with Leipzig defender Marcel ...
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Sports Illustrated
The Pac-12 has already done it. It looks like the Big 12 is considering it, which means the NCAA likely is considering it. When the Pac-12 said last week it was halting its fall sports season, the conference also decided there would be no sports at all until ...
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Charlotte Observer
Appalachian State University linked a COVID-19 cluster with the football program Tuesday, halting practices indefinitely. In an email to students, faculty and staff, the university identified 11 cases of the novel coronavirus associated with the football team ...
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Yahoo Sports
Tuukka Rask doesn't owe the public an explanation for why he opted out of the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs. But the Boston Bruins goaltender apparently provided more insight into his decision to leave the team in two phone conversations with WEEI's Greg Hill ...
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News18
For almost two decades it had felt inevitable that Ronald Koeman would get the Barcelona job sometime. And now he has it, walking into the chaos left behind by Friday's 8-2 Champions League quarterfinal defeat to Bayern Munich and signing a contract ...
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Cyclingnews.com
While the new road to the summit of the Col de la Loze will take centre stage for cycling in four weeks' time for stage 17 of the year's Tour de France, it also saw the new colours and branding of Team Ineos on the likes of Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and, ...
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Sports Illustrated
Wake Forest wide receiver Sage Surratt has become the lastest ACC football player to announce his decision not to play in 2020 because of the risks involved with the coronavirus pandemic. The redshirt junior, who will forego the remainder of his college ...
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Auburn Tigers Official Athletic Site
AUBURN, Ala.— The Southeastern Conference announced guidelines Tuesday for its 14 member schools to establish expectations to manage the health and safety of fans in preparation for the 2020 football season, as the Conference continues to monitor ...
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ESPN
The largest 10-kilometer road race in the United States will be run virtually in 2020. The Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, which has been held on the Fourth of July since its inaugural event in 1970, shifted to a Thanksgiving date in hopes of staging the race ...
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CBSSports.com
The highly anticipated boxing exhibition between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. may already be in jeopardy. Recently delayed from Sept. 12 at the Dignity Health Sports Park in California to Saturday, Nov. 28, the move has upset the former light unified light ...
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Forbes
On Tuesday, Nate Pearson did something on an MLB mound for the first time: he pitched with a lead. He's still missing a few big "firsts" though, including a win — and even a quality start. The road has been rocky for the Blue Jays' top prospect so far, and it ...
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Tampa Bay Times
They're almost there. One year after being swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the lowest seed in the field, the Lightning are on the cusp of sending those same Blue Jackets back to their offseason homes. Feeding off the energy generated by Yanni ...
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OrlandoMagic.com
It was just the eighth time in Magic playoff history they dished out 29 or more assists. D.J. Augustin handed out 11 of them, while Markelle Fultz had six dimes. The 34 assists Orlando recorded on April 26, 1996 against Detroit is the team playoff high. #9 Khris ...
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Niners Nation
ESPN's Bill Barnwell invented 32 props for each team. For the San Francisco 49ers, Barnwell came up with a rushing prop. How many 49ers will have a rushing touchdown this season? Barnwell set the prop at 6.5: Number of 49ers with a rushing touchdown ...
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KSL.com
PROVO — Athletics directors begin signing contracts on football seasons years in advance, but they didn't predict the global coronavirus pandemic and how it would ravage their carefully planned work, in addition to the lives lost and economic impact of ...
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Comcast SportsNet Chicago
LAKE FOREST, Ill. – With only 26 days until the regular season opener in Detroit – and no preseason games between now and then – each rep in practice is carrying more weight than ever for the Chicago Bears. Tuesday's second padded practice at Halas ...
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Yahoo Sports
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) -- Clemson has added one of its most decorated players in C.J. Spiller to its coaching staff. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said Spiller would be a graduate intern with the team as the former NFL running back works toward his Masters' ...
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NBC Sports - NFL
Dixon was waived by the Jets on Wednesday, Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News reports. The 26-year-old running back was a fourth-round pick for the Ravens back in 2016, and while he's been the subject of fantasy-football hype on a few different ...
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Newsday
CHICAGO - (AP) -- Yu Darvish is taking his time again. Slow and deliberate works just fine for him. Darvish pitched six effective innings in his fourth straight win, and the banged-up Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3 on Tuesday night. "His stuff is ...
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Sporting News
Vanessa Bryant on Monday shared an image of the Lakers' "Black Mamba" tribute jerseys, which honor her late husband Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna. The jerseys — which Kobe co-designed with Nike in 2018 — feature a subtle ...
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masslive.com
BOSTON -- In a season that's going nowhere, it's likely that the 6-18 Red Sox will undergo some sort of makeover before the Aug. 31 trade deadline. With less than two weeks remaining, that reality is starting to sink in for manager Ron Roenicke and his ...
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The Columbus Dispatch
The Crew didn't waste any time when the transfer window opened last week to bolster its depth on defense, in the midfield and attack. With the starting lineup solidified, the club prioritized available players who would transition seamlessly into the roster.
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Tar Heel Blog
Yesterday, Mack Brown took questions via Zoom from sports reporters that had one eye on the (hopefully) upcoming football season, but another eye focused squarely on the swath of viral destruction in Chapel Hill. Four COVID-19 clusters on campus in the ...
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CBSSports.com
With Jon Jones recently announcing he had vacated the UFC light heavyweight championship, the promotion wasted little time in putting together a bout for the vacant belt. Top contenders Dominick Reyes and Jan Blachowicz will battle to determine only the ...
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WBIR.com
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Monday night, #FreeCadeMays began trending on Twitter after Coach Jeremy Pruitt announced that the NCAA denied the transfer offensive lineman's request for immediate eligibility. Former Catholic player and Georgia offensive ...
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Online Athens
We've reached the point in the pandemic where Lane Kiffin stands as a voice of reason. The first-year coach at Mississippi, is challenging his players to do the right things socially and away from the football facility to limit potential exposure to COVID-19.
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The Mercury News
Four practices into training camp and 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh likes what he sees. What's not to like, especially when Nick Bosa and Dee Ford are racing off the edge while a "wide open" competition is underway at right cornerback?
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TheChronicleHerald.ca
The NHL Awards presentations that came as a bonus with Edmonton becoming the start-to-finish Stanley Cup playoff Hub City host should have included an asterisk. Yes, they'll be awarded here. Yes, all the NHL's famed hardware will be here. Yes, if the ...
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ESPN
The Boston Celtics said Tuesday that forward Gordon Hayward will be out for about four weeks with a severe ankle sprain. Hayward suffered the injury in Boston's win over Philadelphia Monday night in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series when he rolled ...
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FOX 13 Tampa Bay
Mike Harmon Racing is a team that competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with racing driver Kyle Weatherman at the wheel of the No. 47 Chevrolet Camaro. Sadly, both parties are currently out of a race car, a trailer, and a Ford pickup truck, after their entire ...
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