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As-it-happens update August 19, 2020
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ESPN
EAGAN, Minn. -- Negotiations regarding a contract extension between running back Dalvin Cook and the Minnesota Vikings have reached an impasse, multiple league sources told ESPN. Barring any changes, Cook, 25, is set to play out the final year of his ...
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NHL.com
The Chicago Blackhawks became the first team eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Tuesday. The Blackhawks lost 4-3 in Game 5 to the Vegas Golden Knights in the best-of-7 Western Conference First Round at Rogers Place in Edmonton, the West ...
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CBSSports.com
The NBA Draft Lottery will be held Thursday to set the draft order for the 14 teams who missed the playoffs this season. The order is determined by a random drawing of Ping-Pong balls and the winning combination of numbers will ultimately determine which ...
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Sports Illustrated
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A group of parents representing families of University of Illinois have written a letter to university leadership and the commissioner of the Big Ten Conference requesting answers on why the fall 2020 sports season was canceled.
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ESPN
Clemson put the cap on fall camp Tuesday with a situational scrimmage and now turns its attention to getting ready for the Sept. 12 opener at Wake Forest. In what's been an unusual preseason prep because of COVID-19 schedule delays and protocols, ...
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NBCSports.com
The Portland Trail Blazers' defense is awful. In the seeding games, they ranked 20th (out of 22) in defensive rating with 120.4, nearly seven points worse per 100 possessions than its regular-season defensive rating of 113.6 that itself ranked 27th. However ...
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Yahoo Sports
Damian Lillard delivered in the clutch Monday night to help the Portland Trail Blazers upset the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of their first-round NBA playoff series. Dame nailed a 30-footer to tie it up at 87 apiece, drilled a 36-footer to give the Blazers a 92-89 ...
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Miami Herald
FRISCO - Tuesday marked Day 2 of the Dallas Cowboys training camp padded practices, for the second day in a row conducted inside Ford Center. We empty the notepad ... Dallas Cowboys Camp Observations From Tuesday's Workout Here Inside The Star: ...
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ESPN
The 49ers are signing former Seahawks WR Jaron Brown, a source tells ESPN's Adam Schefter. Brown joins J.J. Nelson and Tavon Austin as the third wide receiver to sign with San Francisco since camp opened. San Francisco lost WR Jalen Hurd earlier this ...
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The Boston Globe
Ivan Fears slowly walked across the practice fields around 8:30 Wednesday morning, about 45 minutes before the start of practice. It was the only time during the nearly two-hour session in which the Patriots longtime running backs coach was not going full ...
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Seahawks.com
Q13 FOX, official TV partner of the Seattle Seahawks, will air Seahawks Classics Presented by Washington's Lottery the next three Sundays (August 23, August 30, September 6) at 7 p.m.. Q13 FOX will air three classic games starting with the Seahawks' 2010 ...
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FOXSports.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Chiefs will be without starting cornerback Bashaud Breeland for the first four games of the season because of off-the-field issues earlier this year, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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CBSSports.com
Penn State coach James Franklin 'frustrated' by lack of communication from Big Ten in canceling fall season. Ben Kercheval. By Ben Kercheval. Aug 19, 2020 at 11:27 am ET 2 min read. Watch Now: Penn State AD Unaware There Was A Vote To Cancel Big ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
How hard was it for UGA to figure out how to accommodate as many different fans as possible for home football games this fall? Well, Josh Brooks, Georgia's senior deputy athletic director and the point person for that very task, said he found himself at one ...
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Yahoo Sports
It's not lost on Jonathan Toews that if the NHL regular season had finished as scheduled, the Chicago Blackhawks wouldn't have made the playoffs. When they got that chance in an expanded 24-team field, the three-time Stanley Cup-winning captain shelved ...
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The National Football League is considering a league-wide policy that would allow "fan sound" to be played in stadiums, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. The proposed initiative comes as many NFL team stadiums will not have fans in attendance amid ...
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Yahoo Sports
The United States men's national team knows its path to Qatar 2022… kinda. Gregg Berhalter's men know for certain which nations they'll play in which windows of 8 of 14 final round dates, and the teams they could face in the other six. CONCACAF ...
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LA Galaxy
LOS ANGELES – The LA Galaxy have been eager to add a new dimension to their attack amid a turbulent 2020, and Wednesday, the club accomplished their goal with the signing of Colombian winger Yony Gonzalez. Gonzalez joins the Galaxy on loan from ...
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Bleacher Report
Washington Football Team president Jason Wright doesn't want the organization to rush into picking a new nickname. On Wednesday's Good Morning Football (h/t USA Today's Chris Bumbaca), Wright explained why the decision to choose a new name is ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Steelers defensive lineman Stephon Tuitt is confident the national anthem will not become a divisive issue for the team this season, but he was surprisingly mum on the subject Wednesday afternoon after some rather combative posts on his social media ...
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SFGate
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants have officially signed veteran placekicker Grahan Gano. The Giants announced the signing Wednesday, the same day they put receiver and special teams star Cody Core on injured reserve with a torn ...
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NBA.com
NEW YORK -- The National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Players Association announced today that they have finalized an agreement on a program for each of the eight NBA teams that did not participate in the resumption of the 2019-20 ...
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CNN
Maxwell Pearce, 24, known as "Hops Pearce" for the legendary basketball team, on Sunday released clips of the incident, which took place in January on Good Day Alabama for WBRC Fox6 News in Birmingham, Alabama. WBRC is a CNN affiliate.
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ESPN
Perhaps this can all be traced back to Le Giuse? The Italian restaurant owned by Marco Verratti, located on the famous Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore near the Champs-Elysees, is where Paris Saint-Germain's season changed for the better. On Feb.
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masslive.com
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association unanimously approved a series of recommendations Wednesday morning that will allow for fall sports in the commonwealth. Within those recommendations was the call for a four-season athletic ...
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The Boston Globe
Tuukka Rask left the Bruins for a "medical emergency" concerning one of his older daughters, according to a Boston radio host who said he spoke with the goaltender this week. Greg Hill said that Rask, who has appeared numerous times on Hill's morning ...
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Miami Herald
Notes and observations from Day 3 of Miami Dolphins' padded training camp practices in Davie: ▫ Hours after Brian Flores said Tua Tagovailoa has delivered some "good, some bad" in his first two days of camp, the Alabama rookie didn't have as prominent ...
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Bleacher Report
A dispute has broken out between Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Strahan and a sports memorabilia dealer over the authenticity of a Super Bowl 42 jersey up for auction. Per TMZ Sports, Goldin Auctions has listed Strahan's No. 92 jersey from the New ...
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Sporting News
Two former LSU students spoke with USA Today and accused former Washington Football Team running back Derrius Guice of rape. The two women allege that Guice raped them in 2016 when the running back was a freshman on the team. 0:00. From USA ...
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Forbes
The Big East Conference is the latest sports league to endorse Black Lives Matter. The league announced Wednesday that the Conference's eleven member schools have unanimously approved the display of BLM patches on their men's and women's ...
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Richmond.com
ASHBURN - At one point, doctors considered amputating Alex Smith's right leg, as infection began to spread through his body. Tuesday marked 664 days since Smith's tibia was shattered on the football field, and it was a stunning sight to see him back in his ...
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OCRegister
The biggest obstacle HBO's "Hard Knocks" faced for delivering an entertaining 15th season amid a pandemic would be to fill 60 minutes of airtime without preseason games, a staple of the reality show's success. The daunting task was viewed as feasible ...
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The Guardian
Barcelona is rekindling its links with Dutch soccer. The Spanish team officially announced Ronald Koeman as its new coach on Wednesday, a day after club president Josep Bartomeu had said the Dutchman accepted the coaching offer and only details ...
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Boston.com
BOSTON — With one big inning, Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies crushed Boston's hopes of snapping out of its losing streak. The Phillies outfielder hit a three-run homer during a seven-run sixth on Tuesday night, and Philadelphia came from ...
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Houston Chronicle
DENVER — Astros designated hitter Yordan Alvarez may miss the remainder of the season, manager Dusty Baker revealed in a radio interview on Wednesday afternoon. "Yordan Alvarez, it looks like he's done, maybe for the year, maybe," Baker said on ...
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Montgomery Advertiser
AUBURN — There will not be 87,451 fans packed inside Jordan-Hare Stadium if Auburn plays football this season. But it won't be empty. The university announced Wednesday that, under the direction of state health officials, capacity will be reduced to ...
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New York Post
Former Mets ace Matt Harvey hasn't pitched in the majors in more than a year, and he knows that this could be his last chance at sticking in the big leagues. The 31-year-old Harvey is set to start for the Kansas City Royals in the second game of a ...
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Winston-Salem Journal
Cameron Young, a former Wake Forest star, was at a crossroads with where his professional golf season would go. He had qualified for the McKenzie Tour, which is in based in Canada, but when the pandemic hit that tour was shut down. Fast forward to a ...
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Over The Monster
Did you miss the pitcher churn? It's been about as long as we've gone all year without the Red Sox adding a recently cast aside pitcher from another organization, but they broke the drought during Wednesday afternoon's game against the Phillies. Boston ...
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FBSchedules.com
The BYU Cougars and Army West Point Black Knights have scheduled a home-and-home football series for 2020 and 2032, it was officially announced on Wednesday. In the first game of the series, BYU will travel to take on Army at Michie Stadium in West ...
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Hoops Habit
The Boston Celtics will be without starting small forward Gordon Hayward for at least four weeks, and they will need these three key players to step up. As they walked off the court with a 109-101 Game 1 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers Monday night, the ...
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Pats Pulpit
Tom Brady led the New England Patriots offense for almost two decades, but earlier this offseason decided to take his talents elsewhere: hitting free agency for the first time in his career, the now-43-year-old decided to leave the team with which he had won ...
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Deseret News
PROVO — BYU's season-opening football game against Navy will be played on Sept. 7 on ESPN. But, as Naval Academy athletic director Chet Gladchuk announced Wednesday, fans will not be allowed to watch the game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial ...
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The Boston Globe
Michael Smith and Michael Holley will be the hosts and executive producers of a new daily show on the NBC Sports channel of the new Peacock streaming service. Titled "Brother From Another,'' the longtime friends and former Globe sports writers will ...
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For The Win
The Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes will meet in Game 5 of the best-of-seven series on Wednesday live from Toronto, Ontario. The Bruins can close out the series tonight if they can keep Carolina off the scoreboard. Watch Now. Everything you need to ...
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Sky Sports
Billy Vunipola says he declined to take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter last weekend because of his opposition to elements of the movement's protests. Vunipola, the England number eight of Tongan heritage, remained standing before Saracens' ...
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NBC Sports - NFL
The Bengals may have lost another defensive player for an extended period of time. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, Bengals defensive tackle Renell Wren suffered a "significant" quadriceps injury in practice Monday. He's getting a second ...
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