The roars of the crowd will be missing from the Masters this year. Augusta National says it will not have spectators when the Masters is played two weeks before Thanksgiving. That means all three majors won’t have fans this year. The silence will be most deafening at the Masters. The tournament is renowned for its roars on the back nine…
The Pac-12 CEO Group has announced that it voted unanimously to postpone all sport competitions through the end of the 2020 calendar year. It becomes the latest conference, following the Big Ten, the Mountain West and the Mid-American Conference in making a decision to postpone fall sports. The decision was made after consultation with athletics directors and with the Pac-12…
The Big Ten has joined the Pac-12, the Mountain West and the Mid-American Conference in postponing fall sports. Here is the official statement from the Big Ten on the postponement of Football to the Spring: The Big Ten Conference announced the postponement of the 2020-21 fall sports season, including all regular-season contests and Big Ten Championships and Tournaments, due to ongoing…
Major League Baseball has suspended the Miami Marlins’ season through Sunday, and the Philadelphia Phillies will remain idled by the coronavirus pandemic until Friday. Meanwhile, the rest of baseball forges ahead with some trepidation. Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun says there’s real fear and anxiety among players, and they’ve found it very difficult to focus on baseball at all. In…
Two major league games scheduled for Monday night have been postponed as the Miami Marlins deal with a coronavirus outbreak that stranded them in Philadelphia. The Marlins’ home opener against Baltimore was called off, as was the New York Yankees’ game at Philadelphia. The Yankees would have been in the same clubhouse the Marlins used last weekend. Major League Baseball…
Statement from Alabama Director of Athletics Greg Byrne on 2020 Football Season Opener: “As I’ve said before, USC AD Mike Bohn and I had multiple conversations over the last several months, and we were both planning on playing the football game on September 5 in Arlington. With the Pac-12’s decision to move to a conference-only schedule, we will do our…
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Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane says forward Vinícius Júnior will need to have another coronavirus test after an initial test result came out “wrong.”
Zidane says “the doctor informed me that the test had come out wrong and we were going to repeat it.”
Zidane says the Brazilian’s test was not positive. He says “sometimes there are errors. It wasn’t negative or positive.”
Spanish league players have undergone regular testing since the competition resumed last month.
Some players and staff members at
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Two more badminton tournaments have been canceled in the revamped calendar because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The China Masters in Lingshui was canceled after already being moved from February to May and then to August.
It was to be the first comeback event but that’s now expected to be the Chinese Taipei Open in Taipei from Sept. 1-6.
The Dutch Open in Almere in October was also put off for this year.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dodger Stadium’s 40-year wait to host the All-Star Game is going to last even longer. The game scheduled for July 14 has been canceled because of the Coronavirus pandemic, and Dodger Stadium was awarded the 2022 Midsummer Classic. The 2021 game is set for Atlanta’s Truist Park, home of the Braves since 2017. The pandemic had…
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The Latvian soccer federation says its national team will play a postponed friendly at Montenegro on Oct. 7.
The match in Podgorica was originally scheduled to be played on March 26 but was called off because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Baltic News Service reported the new date.
Soccer has resumed around much of Europe in empty stadiums. The Champions League is scheduled to be completed in August at a mini-tournament in Portugal.
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