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As-it-happens update March 13, 2020
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Bleacher Report
Just before the start of the 2019 season, Jadeveon Clowney was traded by the Houston Texans to the Seattle Seahawks. This marked the first time in his NFL career that the defensive end switched teams. Now, though, it could happen again prior to the 2020 ...
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USA TODAY
The NFL's twice-delayed franchise-tag deadline looms near. Teams have until 11:59:59 a.m. Monday to designate a franchise-tagged player, leaving the window to negotiate a long-term deal open until July 15. In Dallas, each day brings the Cowboys closer ...
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NFL.com
Though what's predicted to be an equally historic and chaotic free-agency period still awaits the NFL, tight end Greg Olsen has already parted ways with the Carolina Panthers after nine seasons and found his way to the Seattle Seahawks. Olsen also had ...
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CBSSports.com
The Miami Dolphins are one of the most interesting teams to watch in the 2020 NFL Draft. The Dolphins have more picks than any team in the league, and more needs to fill than just about any team as well. They have three picks in the first round, which puts ...
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Bleacher Report
The sports world has come to an unprecedented halt as countries confront the spread of the coronavirus, but the NFL offseason might be the only professional league to ignore the pause. NFL free agency is scheduled to begin Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET. Even if ...
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Sports Illustrated
It's not a promising year salary cap wise for the Steelers. Franchise tagging Bud Dupree for north of $16 million is going to be a major task all on it's own. But if they can find a list of cap casualties, they should be able to find enough space to keep their team in ...
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SB Nation
The San Francisco 49ers pulled off one of the most dramatic turnarounds in NFL history, going from 4-12 in 2018 to 13-3 and the top seed in the NFC. Head coach Kyle Shanahan led the 49ers all the way to Super Bowl 54 against the Chiefs. The comeback ...
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Sports Illustrated
In hindsight, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Detroit Pistons probably shouldn't have played against each other on Wednesday. Well, not in front of fans, at least. But it's too late for that now. Both parties, the NBA included, knew that playing games during the ...
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The New York Times
LONDON — The pilot of a small plane that crashed into the English Channel last year, killing the Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala, was not licensed to fly commercially, and neither was the aircraft, investigators said in a report released on Friday.
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NBCSports.com
Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus. Donovan Mitchell then tested positive for coronavirus. Jazz players are reportedly upset with Gobert for – before his diagnosis – going out of his way to touch them and their belongings. Mitchell's first public remarks ...
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BaltimoreRavens.com
The Ravens' best pass rusher will not be leaving via free agency. The franchise tag has been placed on outside linebacker Matthew Judon, the team announced Friday. The deadline to place the tag on players is Monday. The decision allows Baltimore to ...
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USA TODAY
East Tennessee State basketball coach Steve Forbes said he couldn't wait for his team to hear its name called on Selection Sunday. The Buccaneers were a projected No. 10 seed after winning the Southern Conference's automatic bid and a favorite to play ...
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Bleacher Report
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has praised on-loan forward Odion Ighalo and hinted the club may look to bring back the striker next season. Ighalo continued his impressive start to life at United on Thursday, scoring a brilliant goal in a 5-0 ...
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Bleacher Report
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has thanked fans for their support after testing positive for the coronavirus. The Spaniard also praised the Premier League for their decision to suspend the competition until at least April 3 because of the pandemic: Mikel Arteta @ ...
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Los Angeles Times
Del Shofner, the wide receiver who combined with Hall of Fame quarterback Y.A. Tittle to give the New York Giants one of the NFL's most prolific passing threats in the early 1960s, has died. He was 85. Shofner's daughter, Laurie Shofner Corwin, confirmed ...
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USA TODAY
CINCINNATI (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak has abruptly roused the University of Dayton from its dream of a basketball season. The 29-2 Flyers, ranked No. 3 in The Associated Press poll, were rolling into tournament play on a 20-game winning streak that ...
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New York Post
LAS VEGAS — The sports world is often considered to exist in a parallel universe from real-world problems, but it was dealt a double dose of reality on Wednesday and Thursday with the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament and the suspension of the NBA ...
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Washington Times
The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak's affect on sports around the world (all times local):. ___. 12:25 p.m.. TOP STORIES Wuhan gets back to work; positive signs for future of coronavirus in U.S. · Virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to Chinese ...
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USA TODAY
The Phoenix Suns intend to finish the 2019-20 NBA regular season without interruption. Games will still take place — just not on a real basketball court. A message on the team's Twitter account said Thursday that Suns games will continue without interruption ...
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Forbes
Alex Anthopoulos, the Atlanta Braves general manager, said the organization's players on the Major League side and Minor League side will have a light workout Friday and will take the next two days off before reconvening Monday. Anthopoulos said some ...
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Olean Times Herald
Wainwright started Thursday's Grapefruit League loss to the Marlins and fired five scoreless innings, allowing two hits and no walks while recording three strikeouts. The veteran right-hander threw 73 pitches overall in a highly efficient performance, one that ...
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syracuse.com
Jim Boeheim has been the head coach at Syracuse University for 44 years. His teams have been to the NCAA Tournament 34 times. He's been to the Final Four on five occasions and won the national championship once. The NCAA's decision to cancel its ...
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CNN International
(CNN) As Covid-19 spreads with alacrity around the world, billion-dollar sports leagues have been brought to a halt. Thursday in the US was one of the most extraordinary in the country's sports history as the NBA, the WNBA and the much-anticipated NCAA's ...
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ESPN
Organizers of the Boston Marathon, the planet's most celebrated footrace, are postponing the event until Sept. 14 because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced Friday. The Boston Athletic Association, which ...
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Bleacher Report
Alabama basketball player Alex Reese was arrested Friday morning in Tuscaloosa County on a charge of public intoxication. Per Michael Casagrande of AL.com, Tuscaloosa Police said they spotted Reese walking on a street around 3:30 a.m. local time and ...
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Yahoo Sports
As sports leagues around the world suspend seasons and cancel events, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Thursday that his promotion will continue holding events over the next month. Some events will be moved to UFC's 1,500-capacity Apex facility ...
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ESPN
IndyCar has called off its season opener in St. Petersburg, Florida, with the series announcing that all races through April have been canceled. Friday's announcement covers the first four races of the 2020 season. The next scheduled race is the GMR Grand ...
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NBCSports.com
MLB has stopped all Spring Training games and could suspend all baseball activities until May due to preventative measures against COVID-19. Host Chuck Garfien discusses what happens now and why this is disappointing for White Sox fans.
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TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
The Big Ten Conference opened the possibility of restarting athletic activities in early April. The conference announced Friday morning that all organized team activities are suspended until April 6 and "will be re-evaluated at that time" as the U.S. deals with the ...
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House of Houston
Anthony Weaver leads the Houston Texans' defense quest to climb back up the league unit rankings as the 2020 free agency and draft season approaches. When Anthony Weaver earned a promotion to the Houston Texans' defensive coordinator role earlier ...
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TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
The girls state basketball tournament came to a screeching halt Friday morning, when the Minnesota State High School League announced the remainder of the tournament would be canceled. Next weekend's boys basketball state tournament, and the ...
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Paulick Report
In a Washington Post editorial published Friday, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert says the federal indictments this week of 28 people for illegally doping racehorses has changed his mind about the congressional legislation known as the Horseracing Integrity ...
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CBS Denver
After the University of Denver informed the Colorado High School Activities Association late Thursday that it could no longer host the state's 3A tournament, the CHSAA announced the cancellation of the rest of its basketball tournament. "With uncertainty at all ...
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ESPNcricinfo.com
Despite having deferred the IPL until April 15, the tournament's governing council will meet on Saturday in Mumbai to review the precautionary steps needed to be put in place for the marquee event to start in April. The IPL top brass will also be meeting the ...
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Vaught's Views
By KEITH TAYLOR, Kentucky Today. LEXINGTON — John Calipari was looking forward to the NCAA Tournament. The Kentucky coach believes the Wildcats could have competed for a national title. Kentucky won the Southeastern Conference regular-season ...
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KTOO
Defending Iditarod champion Pete Kaiser mushing into Nikolai on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media). Hundreds of sled dogs are running across Alaska this week as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race plays out over ...
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Riverhead News Review
The intersection of real life and sports has turned March madness into March sadness. From professional sports to college games, right down to athletics at the high school and middle school levels, the coronavirus pandemic has taken the fun out of America's ...
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The Guardian
Adam Zampa bowled the ball of the summer but no-one was there to see it as Australia beat New Zealand by 71 runs behind closed doors at the SCG. On a day when the coronavirus consumed the sporting landscape, Australia recorded their first ODI win in ...
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247Sports
The NCAA announced Thursday afternoon it will cancel all remaining winter and spring championship events in the light of the coronavirus pandemic. That means no NCAA Tournament and no College World Series. Countless athletes have seen their ...
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Flyers were the NHL's hottest team, winners of nine of their last 10 games, and on pace for 106 points. They have topped that total just once in the last 33 seasons. They have come together as a true team, displaying a relentless style at both ends of the ...
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WYMT News
(WYMT) - COVID-19 has made its way into spring sports, as the KHSAA also announced that they are canceling all sports for that dead period until April 12th. This impacts the Sweet 16 and all spring sports, in addition to spring football. Here's the statement ...
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redlegnation.com
Well, the Major League Baseball season is going to be delayed a little bit. No one know for how long that will last at this point, but the plan is to eventually play baseball this season. A few days before the delay was announced, the folks over at Sports ...
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BBC Sport
Italian Niccolo Bonifazio won stage five of Paris-Nice in a sprint finish. The Total Direct Energie rider, 26, took the race's longest stage - 227km from Gannat to La Cote-Saint-Andrea - ahead of Ivan Garcia Cortina and Peter Sagan. Germany's Max ...
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