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As-it-happens update August 8, 2020
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The Boston Celtics might have played their best game of the 2019-20 season Friday, beating the Toronto Raptors 122-100 in a game that was more lopsided than that final score would indicate. But afterward, Celtics coach Brad ...
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ESPN
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Royals won the World Series five years ago with a bullpen that rarely squandered the slimmest of leads. Their reworked relief corps looked awfully similar Friday night. After getting a go-ahead homer from Ryan McBroom in the sixth ...
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ESPN
LOS ANGELES -- Mookie Betts homered for the first time at Dodger Stadium, and Max Muncy, Will Smith and Edwin Rios went deep to help Los Angeles defeat the San Francisco Giants 7-2 on Friday night. The Dodgers have won three in a row and eight of ...
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USA TODAY
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Pinch-hitter Michael Perez hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning on his 28th birthday, six Tampa Bay pitchers combined on a two-hitter and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the AL East-leading New York Yankees 1-0 on Friday night.
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ESPN
BOSTON -- Mitch Moreland's crack of the bat in a nearly empty Fenway Park was easily heard. Alex Verdugo's yell after his homer-saving catch might have been even louder. Verdugo hit two solo homers over the Green Monster and made a homer-robbing ...
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ESPN
A week after losing No. 1 draft pick Sabrina Ionescu to an ankle injury, the New York Liberty finally broke through for their first victory this WNBA season. The Liberty, who started the season 0-5, beat Washington 74-66 Friday in Bradenton, Florida. "I'm really ...
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ESPN
A glance at the leaderboard at the 2020 PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park offers variety, from Brooks Koepka trying to make history to Li Haotong and Mike Lorenzo-Vera trying to stun everyone. Then there's Tiger Woods, who had a miserable putting ...
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ESPN
The Orlando Magic have clinched the final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference after the Washington Wizards became the first team of the 22 teams in the NBA's bubble to be eliminated. The Wizards' 118-107 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans helped ...
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Yahoo Sports
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The NBA playoff picture is getting a little clearer, and the Eastern Conference field of qualifiers is now set. Brooklyn and Orlando clinched the last two remaining East spots Friday, meaning no play-in series — a new wrinkle ...
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Forbes
If Michael Porter Jr.'s performance in the Denver Nuggets' post-hiatus games is any indication, he looks to be squarely back on the path to NBA stardom after a years-long detour. In Denver's first official return game at the NBA's protective bubble at Disney ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pirates like to talk about their never-say-die attitude, the fight that often shows up late in games. It's not wrong. They've scored an MLB-best 34 runs in the seventh inning or later and also lead baseball with five home runs in the ninth. But even though this ...
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
For all those years, the Cincinnati Reds featured plenty of offense but not enough pitching to back it up, and paid the consequences for it. Now, the script has flipped. Through 14 games this season, the Reds often have struggled on offense – they were batting ...
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Los Angeles Times
Mike Trout homered again on his birthday, but Robinson Chirinos drove in two runs without a hit and the Texas Rangers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-3 win over the Angels on Friday night. Trout turned 29, and homered for the fifth time in the ...
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The Denver Post
Name the ways the first-place Rockies needed to play to keep their early-season momentum going in the first game of their second road trip, and they did it Friday night in Seattle. Quality start to maintain the starting pitching swag? Check. Station-to-station ...
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USA TODAY
Ten days later, Vic Beasley watch is over. The Titans outside linebacker finally reported to training camp Friday, the team confirmed. Signed earlier this offseason to a one-year, $9.5 million deal, Beasley will now go through COVID-19 testing — he needs ...
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CBSSports.com
All coaches, staff and non-competing student-athletes are required to wear a face mask/neck gaiter on the sideline. Physical distancing should be employed to the extent possible. Competing student-athletes shall wear a neck gaiter that can be used for timeouts ...
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Sporting News
Now that it is part of a Saturday-Sunday doubleheader, the start time for the first NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway this season is much later than originally scheduled. This is what happens when NASCAR has to squeeze two ...
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Yahoo Sports
VIDEO SHOWS: NEWS CONFERENCE WITH CHELSEA MANAGER FRANK LAMPARD AND CENTRE BACK ANTONIO RUEDIGER. EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: CONTAINS WHITE FLASHES. RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT. SHOWS: MUNICH ...
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USA TODAY
Former Florida State basketball center Michael Ojo died on Friday from a heart attack he suffered during practice overseas, the university's athletic department confirmed. Ojo was 27. "In all of my years of coaching, I've never been around a person who ...
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Los Angeles Times
A'ja Wilson scored 26 points with 11 rebounds and Angel McCoughtry added 24 and the Las Vegas Aces beat the Sparks 86-82 on Friday night. Wilson — who recorded her fourth consecutive double-double — finished 11-of-19 shooting and scored 12 in the ...
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Yahoo Sports
Juventus coach Maurizio Sarri said he was "bitter" as the Italian giants crashed out of the Champions League on Friday to Lyon despite a Cristiano Ronaldo double giving the hosts a 2-1 win over the French club on the night. Captain Memphis Depay's ...
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DallasCowboys.com
FRISCO, Texas – Head coach Mike McCarthy met with reporters on Friday during a virtual press conference from The Star inside Ford Center. It was his first press conference since the team got back in the building and the coach discussed a wide range of ...
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Reuters
Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jake Cronenworth led off the first and second innings, respectively, with first-pitch home runs Friday night and right-handed starter Zach Davies retired the first 13 Diamondbacks he faced as the Padres shut out visiting Arizona 3-0 in the ...
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NASCAR
Johnny Sauter is feeling the postseason pressure. With only five races and five spots remaining, the 2016 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series champ has yet to secure a spot in the upcoming 2020 playoffs — something his three ThorSport Racing ...
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Washington Post
A look at what's happening around European soccer on Saturday with the remaining Champions League last-16 games: BARCELONA (1) VS. NAPOLI (1). Support our journalism. Subscribe today. Having sealed a Europa League spot by winning the Italian ...
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ESPN
Fitzhugh is believed to be the first Black team broadcaster hired by an NHL franchise. He has spent the past five seasons as the director of media relations and broadcasting for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. Fitzhugh served as the play-by-play ...
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Albany Times Union
Saratoga Springs. If the neck was a little longer, you would not be seeing Caracaro in Saturday's 151st running of the Travers Stakes. That was the margin of defeat for the son of Uncle Mo in the Grade III Peter Pan at Saratoga on opening day. If Caracaro was ...
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oregonlive.com
What a difference seven days has made for the Portland Trail Blazers. After four games, Portland has gone from having a reasonable shot at reaching the NBA playoffs to legitimately being in control of this race. Well, to a certain degree. "With four games to go, ...
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MLSsoccer.com
Chelsea and US men's national team star Christian Pulisic will be out roughly six weeks after injuring his right hamstring during Saturday's FA Cup Final, Chelsea manager Frank Lampard confirmed on Friday. The news means Pulisic will be out not only for all ...
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The Indianapolis Star
There's no question Indiana Pacers forward T.J. Warren has been putting on a clinic in the NBA bubble. Warren led the NBA in scoring after the first three games and tied a Pacers franchise record by scoring 119 points during that span. Warren isn't the only ...
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Yahoo Sports
LAS VEGAS — A large percentage of the UFC roster, both male and female, weren't born when Aleksei Oleinik made his professional mixed martial arts debut by winning three fights in the same night on Nov. 10, 1996, in Ukraine. Bill Clinton had just been ...
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News-Herald.com
Ohio's high school football season will look very different this fall. On Aug. 7, the OHSAA sent member schools a plan for a six-game season that has all teams entering the playoffs. The modified season, which would begin the week of Aug. 24, is set to end on ...
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The Courier-Express
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was already on record as saying his defense can do more in 2020. Even in the turnover department, where the franchise led the NFL last year with 38. "It's reasonable to expect us to improve in that area and to ...
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247Sports
After massive changes to the Power Five schedules across the country, it looks like the college football season is going to fight hard to play, despite the coronavirus pandemic. But one school's players are not comfortable with the health concerns associated ...
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STLtoday.com
In the feature bout of Bellator MMA 243 Friday night in Connecticut, St. Louis native Michael Chandler scored a first-round knockout of Benson Henderson in a lightweight bout. Chandler, the only three-time champion in Bellator history, was 2 minutes and 9 ...
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KELOLAND.com
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Banquet in Sioux Falls offers meals to people in need, and there are many people who take them up on the offer. The organization opened up a permanent location on March 9 in west Sioux Falls, and the number of people ...
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Yahoo Sport Australia
Valerie Loureda has hit back at critics of her social media activity after she was called out by an MMA rival. The UFC's Macy Chiasson called out Loureda earlier this year after she posted a workout video in the gym that Chiasson described as a "strip-tease.".
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