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Purdue's Jeff Brohm creates plan for spring football Like many Big Ten coaches, Purdue's Jeff Brohm was disappointed and angry upon learning the league had postponed the fall football season. He channeled those emotions into crafting a detailed plan for a spring season. Brohm's proposal outlines an ...
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Nebraska ends talk of playing outside Big Ten Nebraska has ended speculation about breaking from the Big Ten's plan to postpone fall football. "The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a fully committed member of the Big Ten Conference," chancellor Ronnie Green and president Ted Carter said in a ...
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NBA campus intel: Schedule and live updates for Day 14 of seeding games All the scenarios, all the magic numbers, all the scoreboard watching -- it's all going to be settled and easy to understand by close of business on Thursday night. But here's where it's at before we get there: Portland Trail Blazers: win and they're in (as the ...
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Florida State wide receivers challenge school's handling of coronavirus The delicate balance of player safety and pushing forward with football may have hit a tipping point at Florida State, where three wide receivers, including star Tamorrion Terry, have publicly spoken out about a lack of transparency in coronavirus testing at the ...
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Adam Silver Opens Up About the NBA Bubble: 'It's Better Than What We Had Envisioned' From behind two inches of plexiglass, a cloth mask covering his face and NBA basketball playing out before his eyes, Adam Silver felt a wave of emotion wash over him. It had been more than four months since the COVID-19 pandemic shut the league down, ...
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Should the New York Rangers trade the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NHL draft? The worst thing about the New York Rangers winning the Alexis Lafrenière draft lottery is how their fans are going to absolutely mangle his name. My father grew up in the city. His first attempt at a pronunciation was "Lufthansa." The Canadian hamlet of ...
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UFC 252: How Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier went from texting buddies to fierce rivals It was Sept. 11, 2017, a beautiful day in the Cleveland suburb of Valley View, and fire chief Ken Papesh was anxiously awaiting a visitor. UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier was headed to the firehouse to interview heavyweight champ -- and ...
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Projecting the Saints 53-man Roster: Linebacker Demario Davis etched his name into the New Orleans Saints rich history of linebackers by earning his first career All-Pro honor in 2019. Davis was the team's first Pro Bowl LB since Jonathan Vilma in 2010, and it's first All-Pro at the position since Winfred ...
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2020 NBA Playoffs: Three big questions before Celtics vs. 76ers Round 1 series The Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers - maybe the closest thing to a rivalry in an ever-changing Eastern Conference - will joust in the opening round of the bubble playoffs starting next week in Orlando. This is not your typical 3-6 matchup and the Sixers ...
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New Mexico State, an FBS independent, moves football to spring New Mexico State has postponed its football season to the spring because of the coronavirus pandemic, it was announced Thursday. "This decision was not made lightly," NMSU president John Floros said in a statement. "It was particularly hard for many of us ...
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George Kittle, 49ers Agree on Record 5-Year, $75M Contract Extension Tight end George Kittle is one of the San Francisco 49ers' best offensive playmakers, and he will reportedly now be paid like one, too. Jack Bechta, Kittle's agent, confirmed to Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area that his client and the 49ers agreed to a ...
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Suns vs. Mavericks odds, line, spread: 2020 NBA picks, Aug. 13 predictions from model on 58-32 roll The Phoenix Suns and the Dallas Mavericks meet on Thursday afternoon in an intriguing Western Conference tilt. While the Mavericks are locked into the No. 7 seed, the Suns enter Thursday's game with a great deal of pressure, needing to pick up a win to ...
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How Will 2020—and the Chase for .400—Be Remembered? The questions started to surface weeks before the start of the season: What if someone hits .400? Would it stand? Would it be asterisked? The conversation used the same vernacular as any other baseball debate about which numbers are valuable and which ...
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In Gardner Minshew's First NFL Camp As a Starter, the QB Sees a Culture Shift For Jaguars Gardner Minshew II has been through five training camps—and is working now on his sixth—since he began chasing his dream of being a NFL starting quarterback. He spent the 2015 fall camp at Northwest Mississippi Community College, before leading the ...
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Dolphins honoring Don Shula with jersey patch for 2020 season The Miami Dolphins will don a piece of history on their jerseys this season. The team announced Thursday it will wear a jersey patch to honor the late Don Shula, who passed away in May at 90 years old. "Shula 347" will be embroidered inside a hexagon just ...
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Lightning, Blue Jackets face off again after 5-overtime game The Tampa Bay Lightning and Columbus Blue Jackets are facing one more challenge than the rest of the teams in the pandemic-altered NHL playoffs. Tampa Bay and Columbus will be back on the ice less than 48 hours after the Lightning outlasted the Blue ...
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Ruiz, Sisco, Santander go deep in Orioles' win over Phillies PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Anthony Santander pinged a homer off the foul pole. Rio Ruiz f our-bounced a shovel pass to nip a runner and preserve a lead. By the thinnest of margins, the 108-loss Orioles from a year ago are turning into winners. Santander, Ruiz ...
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Pete Alonso, Dominic Smith rally Mets past Nationals 11-6 NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Alonso and Dominic Smith had back-to-back RBI doubles in a four-run first inning and hit consecutive homers in a five-run sixth, leading the New York Mets to an 11-6 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday night.
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Dan Orlovsky: If Detroit Lions don't win, Matthew Stafford could go elsewhere in 2021 With last weekend's Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony postponed until next summer because of the coronavirus pandemic, ESPN decided to look at potential Hall of Famers on every NFL roster and separate them into four groups: The locks ...
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No fans. KJ Wright is back. Will Dissly full go. More from Seahawks training camp day 1 Everyone not wearing a helmet was wearing a mask. Everyone. Pete Carroll. All his assistant coaches. Trainers. Team doctors. Ball boys. Even injured players on the side. Players wearing contact-tracing monitors when they aren't on the field. Those beep ...
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Morning sports update: Joe Montana explained why he thinks Tom Brady left the Patriots The Bruins pulled off an overtime win in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference first round series against the Hurricanes. Patrice Bergeron's winning goal was the culmination of a series of passes from Boston's "perfection line," which includes Brad Marchand ...
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Tom Brady leads Bucs in watered-down portion of training camp TAMPA — Tom Brady was warming up. And with temperatures climbing quickly to 84 degrees at the AdventHealth Training facility Thursday morning, nobody reached for the water bottle and a towel during passing drills more than the Bucs' transplanted ...
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The NCAA Establishes a COVID-19 Concern Hotline It's been a busy week across college athletics, as multiple conferences (MAC, Big Ten, Pac-12) have suspended fall sports competition, while most others continue to press forward amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. For athletes who are still participating in fall ...
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Mariners' Erik Swanson: Disappoints against Rangers Swanson (0-1) was tagged with the loss and a blown save Wednesday against the Rangers. He gave up five runs on three hits while striking out in two-thirds of an inning, and he also hit two batters. Swanson was all over the place Wednesday and gave the ...
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Packers Release Griffin to Get to 80 GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers made room for Tuesday's addition of receiver Malik Turner by releasing safety Frankie Griffin. Wednesday's transaction kept the Packers at 80 players, meaning they don't need to go to split-squad practices.
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Cup news: League Cup begins in September, no replays in FA Cup The domestic treble is still an option for the clubs of the Premier League despite the late start to the 2020-21 season. The League Cup and FA Cup are both back for the congested new season of English football, albeit with significant changes to each ...
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Vasilily Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez Jr. come to terms on lightweight unification targeted for Oct. 17 One of the biggest fights of 2020 is now official after unified lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and IBF titleholder Teofimo Lopez Jr. came to terms late Wednesday for a unification targeted for Oct. 17, per an ESPN report. This long-awaited showdown ...
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'Excited' Djokovic confirms US Open participation Novak Djokovic confirmed on Thursday he will play at the US Open, the world number one ending speculation about his presence at the first Grand Slam tournament since the season restarted following the coronavirus-enforced shutdown. "I'm happy to ...
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Photos From Notre Dame Fall Football Practice No. 1 The Notre Dame football team returned to the practice field Wednesday evening. Although there wasn't any media viewing, we were still able to hear a little from Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly, get some photos and video courtesy of Notre Dame ...
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Raiders' Tyrell Williams: Hard Knocks was definitely a distraction last year Williams said he didn't really grasp how big a distraction the reality TV cameras were last training camp until this year, when he has realized it's a lot easier to focus on the task at hand without thinking about what's going to end up on HBO. "Last year, going ...
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Cubs are comfortable with being uncomfortable, and that's bad news for National League Having four days off after last weekend's postponed series with the Cardinals might have been tough for a team as hot as the Cubs. But they seem to be showing no ill effects. They kept the good times rolling, beating the host Indians 7-2 on Wednesday to earn ...
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Who will be the ACC's next commissioner? Syracuse chancellor Kent Syverud will have a say Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse chancellor Kent Syverud is positioned to lead the ACC's 15 presidents as the league picks a new commissioner to replace John Swofford. Swofford, the ACC commissioner for 24 years, will retire after this season. Syverud, by virtue ...
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Ozil blasts Arsenal failure to back his Uighur Muslim comments Mesut Ozil has slammed Arsenal's failure to back his support of Uighur Muslims over their alleged persecution in China. Arsenal midfielder Ozil spoke out on Instagram against China's treatment of the Uighur population in Xinjiang last year. More than one ...
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Senators lay out plan for college athletes bill of rights A group of senators led by Cory Booker of New Jersey and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on Thursday released a plan for reforming college sports with an athletes bill or rights. The legislative plan calls for college athletes to have the ability to earn ...
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McCaffery: For Eagles, Doug Pederson, training camp will be no time for games In a normal NFL preseason, if that's what any of them could have been called, Doug Pederson would have done the usual in the past few days. He would have cut practice early Tuesday to point the Eagles toward a game that would have so little relevance ...
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Southland Conference postpones fall sports competition due to COVID-19 BEAUMONT, Texas — The Southland Conference has announced that all fall sports competition will be postponed but schools may "participate in limited fall competition." In a statement released Thursday morning the conference announced that football, ...
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Avalanche score 3 third-period goals to beat Coyotes 3-0 EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) - Colorado dominated well into the third period with nothing to show for it. All that firepower and the Avalanche could not solve Arizona goalie Darcy Kuemper. Once they broke through, an avalanche of goals followed, giving ...
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NCHSSA Sets New Sports Schedule North Carolina High School Athletic Association Commissioner Que Tucker announced Wednesday a new high school sports calendar due to COVID-19, that delays all sports until at least November and postpones high school football until the spring ...
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Golden Knights' Fourth Line Is the Best in the Playoffs The Vegas Golden Knights are the top seed in the Western Conference for the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs. The success of the team in the bubble so far can be attributed to many different factors, but there is one that seems to fly under the radar: their fourth-line.
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Sixers Assured Of Receiving OKC's 2020 First-Round Pick The Thunder's last-minute win over the Heat on Wednesday assured that Oklahoma City will send its 2020 first-round pick to the Sixers, as Derek Bodner of The Athletic tweets. That selection had been top-20 protected, and the Thunder had been hovering ...
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Indianapolis 500 pace cars through the years Mike Quinn (right) and Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Doug Boles unveil the Pace Car for the 104th Indianapolis 500, a Torch Red 2020 Corvette Stingray coupe, on Pagoda Plaza on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar.
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Russian powerlifter fractures both knees after 400kg squat goes wrong You needed a strong stomach to watch the strongmen on show at the World Raw Powerlifting Federation European Championships in Russia this week. Alexander Sedykh, who arrived at the event near Moscow as the reigning champion in the squat, suffered ...
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