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NBA notebook: Players, coaches kneel as games return
Every person present at HP Fieldhouse on the ESPN Wide World of Sports campus near Orlando knelt during the national anthem before the first game of the NBA's restarted season on Thursday night. All p...
Jul 30, 2020
MLB notebook: More delays as Phils staffers test positive
As the number of coronavirus cases associated with last weekend's Philadelphia Phillies-Miami Marlins series continues to climb, the Phillies' series with the Toronto Blue Jays scheduled for this week...
Jul 30, 2020
Report: MLB, union agree to 7-inning doubleheaders
Doubleheaders apparently are about to get shorter. Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed to a deal that will cut each game in a doubleheader to seven innings beginning Aug. 1, E...
Jul 30, 2020
NBA: Players protest racial injustice as league returns to action
(Reuters) - Players from the Utah Jazz and New Orleans Pelicans bowed their heads and knelt during the playing of the U.S. national anthem while wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts as the NBA returned...
Jul 30, 2020
Fowler grabs clubhouse lead in Memphis, Koepka finds form
(Reuters) - Rickie Fowler put a poor recent run behind him to grab the clubhouse lead in the first round of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis on Thursday. Fowler, who has missed the cut i...
Jul 30, 2020
League ready to launch postseason unlike any in NHL history
(Reuters) - When the National Hockey League (NHL) resumes its virus-hit season on Saturday it will be a postseason unlike any other in league history with teams competing in two Canadian cities in a b...
Jul 30, 2020
Blues’ hopes of Stanley Cup repeat aided by Tarasenko return
(Reuters) - The St. Louis Blues were already the team to beat in the NHL's Western Conference when COVID-19 halted play in March, and the defending Stanley Cup champions have only gotten stronger as v...
Jul 30, 2020
Maple Leafs look to drink from Cup and end longest drought
By Steve Keating (Reuters) - It has been 53 years since the Toronto Maple Leafs hoisted the Stanley Cup but as the National Hockey League prepares to resume on Saturday after the COVID-19 shutdown, th...
Jul 30, 2020
Hockey comes home to Canada as NHL season resumes
By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada has always wanted more National Hockey League teams and starting on Saturday will have 24 as the sport returns from a COVID-19 forced hiatus in the country ...
Jul 30, 2020
Phillies close ballpark after positive COVID-19 tests
(Reuters) - Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies said on Thursday they have closed Citizens Bank Park until further notice after two staff members tested positive for COVID-19. The Phillies s...
Jul 30, 2020
