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As-it-happens update March 23, 2020
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Bleacher Report
It happens every offseason: A handful of free agents are overpaid, as NFL teams can't stop themselves from splurging on average talent. Which names fell into that category during the early portion of 2020's free-agent frenzy? Some were paid like players at ...
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ESPN
XFL star quarterback P.J. Walker has confirmed to ESPN that he will sign with the Carolina Panthers. Walker will become the first XFL player to join an NFL team since the upstart football league announced Friday that its inaugural season had been canceled ...
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ESPN
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Former Raiders linebacker Tahir Whitehead has signed a one-year deal with the Panthers, a league source confirmed to ESPN. Whitehead, who turns 30 on April 2, adds veteran experience to a linebacker corps that lost Pro Bowler Luke ...
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CBSSports.com
Cleveland Indians right-hander Carlos Carrasco had been shut down by the team during spring training with a sore pitching elbow, throwing a kink into 2020 Fantasy baseball rankings everywhere. The Indians said an MRI confirmed that Carrasco does not ...
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Bleacher Report
The moves that NFL teams make in the offseason are done with the intention of helping to lay the foundation for potentially successful seasons and maybe even a Super Bowl victory. Some teams have already made impressive additions to their rosters.
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Sports Illustrated
Through the first wave of free agency, it appears the Jacksonville Jaguars have made the bulk of their big moves to add veterans to the roster for the 2020 season. In the Jaguars' signings so far, the team has addressed every single level of the defense.
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Bleacher Report
Wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders said his grandma's love of the New Orleans Saints and his family's ability to attend his games played a key role in his decision to choose the Saints over the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans in free agency. Katherine ...
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NBCSports.com
Tom Brady is no longer the New England Patriots' starting quarterback. But while the team is facing some uncertainty at the position, some of the players on the squad seem confident in the team's quarterback options. Those options are second-year pro ...
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Bleacher Report
The Atlanta Falcons could make history as they look to bounce back from two straight 7-9 campaigns. After the Falcons announced they had signed running back Todd Gurley following his release from the Los Angeles Rams, and Zach Klein of WSB in Atlanta ...
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Sports Illustrated
West Virginia Mountaineer Freshman Oscar Tshiebwe earned first-team all-district for district eight as voted on by The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) after averaging 11.2 points and 9.3 rebounds on the season. District 8. Devin Dotson ...
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ESPN
NBA icon Charles Barkley, who announced 10 days ago that he was being tested for the coronavirus after falling ill, does not have COVID-19, he said Monday. "I've received my COVID-19 test results this morning and they are negative," he said in a statement ...
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ESPN
Training plans delivered by email, fitness sessions over Skype and food parcels delivered on a daily basis. Welcome to the new normal for professional footballers in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. At some point soon, you may even see a footballer jogging ...
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The Boston Globe
Boston's ace lefty needs Tommy John surgery. It appeared to some of us that he needed surgery last summer when he was shut down with elbow pain. But the Red Sox and Dr. James Andrews waited — a decision that appeared to be based on hope more ...
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Bleacher Report
The Kawhi Leonard-led Los Angeles Clippers and LeBron James-led Los Angeles Lakers appeared destined for a Western Conference Finals showdown before the NBA suspended its season because of the coronavirus pandemic, and there are few better ...
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NBCSports.com
It's been a rough season for the Golden State Warriors, who have been biding their time until their star players return to full health. Klay Thompson has been sidelined for the entirety of the 2019-20 campaign due to a torn ACL he suffered in last year's NBA ...
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Yahoo Sports
Let's take a burn around the National League East position groups while waiting for baseball to return. The earliest a pitch could be thrown is mid-May. So, we'll be going around the division group by group. Today we finish with the starting rotations, where a ...
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New York Daily News
TAMPA — DJ LeMahieu said last week working out helps keep him sane as everything else is so uncertain during the coronavirus pandemic and MLB shutdown. Tyler Wade thinks of the gym at George M. Steinbrenner Field as a safe space. Aaron Judge ...
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SB Nation
Because the Houston Astros haven't been talked about at all in 2020, the time has come to give them some attention. Here is every MLB team's game-by-game home run progression throughout the 1979 season, with Houston in green: They finished up ...
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Bleacher Report
Stefon Diggs wanted a new beginning and apparently helped get just that with the use of social media. Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated explored the timeline of the trade that sent Diggs and a seventh-round pick from the Minnesota Vikings to the Buffalo Bills ...
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nj.com
Our unprecedented times have led to the return of an old staple. The Rutgers mailbag is back. Since we all have a lot of time to kill as we social distance to halt the spread of the coronavirus, let's dive right in: How possible, if at all, is it for football to reach 6 ...
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FOXSports.com
That was fun Sunday. A great distraction. The eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series race on Sunday, won by Denny Hamlin, was cool to see, a great way to spend a couple hours and to try to forget the nervousness of a country plagued by the COVID-19 ...
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Bleacher Report
Florida State sophomore Devin Vassell has declared for the 2020 NBA draft with two more years of eligibility remaining. He announced his decision on his Instagram page Monday. He will have the opportunity to return to school if he withdraws by June 15.
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Giants.com
As general manager Dave Gettleman says, free agency should put you in position to take the best player in the draft. So far, the Giants have agreed to terms with the following free agents according to media reports. The agreements are contingent on the ...
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Washington Post
Sabrina Ionescu capped off a unprecedented college career by entering an exclusive club. Oregon's star guard was a unanimous choice Monday as The Associated Press women's basketball player of the year, receiving all 30 votes from the national media ...
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Bleacher Report
Stan Van Gundy has plenty of experience as a head coach at the NBA level, but he is not interested in returning to the game on the New York Knicks' sideline. Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic shared some of Van Gundy's notable quotes during an appearance ...
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Sports Illustrated
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame has announced that the Purdue men's basketball team will face West Virginia in the Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational on Dec. 13. The game will take place Dec. 13, at the Barclays Center in ...
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The Boston Globe
Zdeno Chara became the latest local star to say goodbye to Tom Brady when the 14-year Bruins veteran posted a photo to Instagram Sunday. "It's with sadness and joy I find myself reflecting on the news of my friend and sports legend @TomBrady moving on ...
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Sports Illustrated
Wayne Gretzky was already known as "The Great One" before March 23, 1994, but he took his legacy to new heights that night by becoming the NHL's all-time goals leader. When the Kings hosted the Canucks at the Forum that night, Gretzky was on the verge ...
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oregonlive.com
Free agent offensive lineman Mike Remmers has signed a deal with Super Bowl champion Kansas City, the team announced. Welcome to the Kingdom, Mike pic.twitter.com/XtOGKZ5Ymj. — Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) March 21, 2020. The former ...
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nj.com
Joe Buck is just like the rest of us. Stuck at home, missing sports and (in many cases) unable to work because of the coronavirus. LATEST CORONAVIRUS UPDATES FROM NJ.COM. Buck, the lead Fox Sports play-by-play announcer for Major League ...
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CBSSports.com
The rapid spread of the coronavirus is causing cancellations and postponements of sporting events and affecting sports around the globe. One of the biggest developments is that Canada and Australia have announced that they don't plan to send athletes to ...
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Forbes
After one week of public outcry, including a lambasting from the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs finally created a fund for hourly employees affected by the NHL's work stoppage. The problem is, the deal still falls short, and ...
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For The Win
It could be nothing: Deshaun Watson sending out a quote on Twitter that comes from Emotionless, maybe about all the madness of being stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Or, you know, the Houston Texans quarterback doesn't sound so happy ...
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Yahoo Sports
Mikel Arteta has always been "ahead of his time" and a "student of the game", says Leon Osman, with the Arsenal boss expected to have "improved" further after working with Pep Guardiola. The Spaniard took up a coaching post at Manchester City after ...
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CBS Denver
(CBS Local/CBS Baltimore)- Heading into another week without sports due to the coronavirus pandemic, we as sports fans are making do with what is available to us. Over the weekend, CBS aired classic NCAA Tournament games including several recent ...
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CNN
(CNN) The Azerbaijan Grand Prix has been postponed, becoming the latest sporting event to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The race in Baku -- due to take place on Sunday, June 7 -- is the eighth Formula One race to be impacted by the spread of ...
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New York Post
The girlfriend of Denver Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray issued a plea to fans Sunday on Twitter after an alleged sex tape leaked online. "If you have the video please delete it," Harper Hempel posted, which has since been retweeted over a thousand times ...
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oregonlive.com
EUGENE — It could've been a Northwest showcase in the Sweet 16. No. 4 seed Oregon edged No. 5 seed Butler, 53.2 percent to 46.8 percent, in our mock NCAA Tournament, in which fans decide who survives and advances to simulate the 2020 tournament ...
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Sports Illustrated
Quinton Dunbar might just get his wish. He's screamed, whined, sucked on his thumb, pouted and told anyone who would listen that he wants nothing to do with the Washington Redskins. Good. The Redskins apparently now want nothing to do with him.
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Brew Hoop
You can never lose if you're literally not allowed to play. It is that factual truth, and the reality that Milwaukee still tenuously holds the best record in the entire NBA, that keeps me fueled. It's top of mind now more than ever even only a week and a half after the ...
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Fox News
Legendary boxer Manny Pacquiao said Saturday "he's not afraid to die" to help the Philippines during the coronavirus pandemic. Pacquiao, who was elected to the Philippines' House of Representatives, entered politics in 2010. Six years later, he was elected ...
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Fox News
Andrew Luck is doing everything he can to keep his young fans entertained during the coronavirus pandemic, which has effectively shut down sports, meet-and-greets and other social gatherings across the U.S.. Indianapolis is one of the cities that has seen ...
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HuskerExtra.com
Jaevon McQuitty's college football career might not be over just yet. The former Nebraska wide receiver's name is in the transfer portal, a source confirmed to the Journal Star, which likely means McQuitty is at least exploring the idea of trying to continue ...
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MLive.com
The Michigan High School Hockey Coaches Association has named its Coaches of the Year while electing two others to its Hall of Fame. J.J. Bamberger of Saginaw Heritage was named Division 1 Coach of the Year after leading the Hawks to a 25-3-0 record ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
After the deal with running back Todd Gurley, the Falcons' depth chart must be updated. Gurley averaged 3.8 yards per carry and had career lows in carries (223) and yards (857). Because of a left knee injury, Dr. David J. Chao said that Gurley's knee must be ...
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bleedcubbieblue.com
When I was a little kid I wanted to be Harry Caray when I grew up. I thought he had the greatest job in the world: talking about Cubs baseball for millions of fans. As I got older and learned the game better I still loved Harry Caray, but I shifted my idolatry a bit.
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The Jerusalem Post
Following Team Israel's meteoric rise to Olympic heights, four-time MLB All-Star Ian Kinsler, widely recognized as the greatest Jewish second baseman of all time, made aliyah earlier this month. His goal: helping the blue-and-white squad win Israel's first-ever ...
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