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|By Associated Press
The Cardinals’ game Friday against the Chicago Cubs was postponed after another St. Louis player tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 1:00 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The league on Thursday released the schedule featuring the Fighting Irish, who are giving up their coveted football independence and competing for the ACC title this season.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:02 AM CDT
|By JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer
The league made changes to its 2020 operations manual after outbreaks on the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals led to 21 postponements in the first two weeks of a shortened 60-game season.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By PAT EATON-ROBB
UConn canceled its 2020-2021 football season Wednesday, becoming the first FBS program to suspend football because of the coronavirus pandemic, as other schools had taken the Huskies off their schedules and the governor was reluctant to allow UConn to travel to states with high infection rates.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 1:37 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Under the revised schedule, teams will play conference opponents they originally were set to meet and will have one additional cross-division game.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 1:25 PM CDT
A judge sentenced ex-Michigan State gymnastics coach Kathie Klages to 90 days in jail plus probation for lying in a case related to Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of athletes on campus.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 11:44 AM CDT
|By JENNA FRYER
The 104th running of “The Great American Race” will be the first without spectators, who showed up at Indianapolis Motor Speedway every year, even during the Great Depression.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 11:02 AM CDT
The investors reportedly purchased it out of bankruptcy for $15 million. The eight-team XFL shut down in April after playing five weeks of games, at least in part due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2020 at 10:36 PM CDT
Per NFL protocols, Pederson can return to the team facility after waiting 10 days since his first positive test if he remains asymptomatic or at least five days if he has consecutive negative tests at least 24 hours apart during that five-day span.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2020 at 1:03 PM CDT
|By RALPH D. RUSSO
The Pac-12 on Friday released a revised football schedule for the upcoming season, which because of the pandemic is not guaranteed to be played.
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Updated: Aug. 1, 2020 at 1:08 PM CDT
|By JAKE SEINER and STEVEN WINE AP Sports Writers
Two Cardinals players were flagged for positive tests on Friday, forcing the series opener in Milwaukee to be called off.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 5:30 PM CDT
|By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer
Isaac stood with his hands behind his back. He wore his Magic jersey and not the Black Lives Matter T-shirt that other players have had on for the anthems so far in the NBA’s season restart at Walt Disney World.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 12:22 PM CDT
The coronavirus forced another change in Major League Baseball’s schedule, bringing the league’s total to eight teams affected in the first nine days of the season.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 7:05 AM CDT
|By TAMARA LUSH
Health experts say test results that come back after two or three days are nearly worthless, because by then the window for tracing the person's contacts to prevent additional infections has essentially closed.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 6:50 PM CDT
The SEC's university presidents agreed on a 10-game schedule that eliminates all nonconference opponents and is set to begin Sept. 26.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2020 at 4:02 PM CDT
ACC limits football schedule to 11 games; Notre Dame will play 10 ACC foes and be eligible for the conference title game.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2020 at 1:26 PM CDT
|By Ed Payne
The move comes after team management consulted with Native American organizations and community members.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2020 at 12:34 PM CDT
|By DOUG FERGUSON
A week before the PGA Championship begins without spectators, the U.S. Open announced Wednesday it would not have fans Sept. 17-20 at Winged Foot in New York because of health and safety concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2020 at 6:09 AM CDT
A re-opening night doubleheader inside the bubble at Walt Disney World awaits Thursday, when New Orleans takes on Utah before a matchup of the two teams in the Western Conference — the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2020 at 2:46 PM CDT
The New York Mets have agreed to a minor league contract with catcher Bruce Maxwell.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2020 at 2:37 PM CDT
|By STEVEN WINE AP Sports Writer
The Miami Marlins’ coronavirus outbreak could endanger the Major League Baseball season, Dr. Anthony Fauci said, as the number of their players testing positive rose to 15.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2020 at 7:38 AM CDT
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has sent a letter to fans outlining the league’s plans to play during the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2020 at 11:53 PM CDT
|By STEVEN WINE AP Sports Writer
More than a dozen Marlins players and staff members tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak that disrupted Major League Baseball's schedule on the fifth day of the pandemic-delayed season.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2020 at 5:26 PM CDT
President Donald Trump won’t be throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium next month after all.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2020 at 2:03 PM CDT
|By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer
The expansion franchise unveiled its nickname Thursday, ending 19 months of speculation.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2020 at 12:40 PM CDT
|By STEPHEN WHYNO
The club announced the placeholder name Thursday, ahead of the start of training camp next week.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2020 at 10:29 AM CDT
|By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer
The COVID-19 pandemic postponed the 2020 Olympics and pushed back the opening to July 23, 2021.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2020 at 7:01 PM CDT
|By RALPH D. RUSSO
The NCAA football oversight committee is asking the association's Board of Governors to avoid making a decision later this week on whether to conduct fall sports championships.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2020 at 7:16 AM CDT
|By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer
Kapler and several of his players knelt during the national anthem before their 6-2 exhibition victory against the Oakland Athletics.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2020 at 8:15 PM CDT
|By SIMMI BUTTAR
The NFL Players Association has agreed to the league’s plan to drop all preseason games for the 2020 season, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2020 at 3:02 PM CDT
The Nationals host the New York Yankees to open the season nearly four months after it originally was scheduled to begin.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2020 at 1:24 PM CDT
|By ROB MAADDI
NFL players are publicly pleading with the league to address several health and safety concerns on the eve of training camp.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2020 at 1:03 AM CDT
|By Jake Seiner
Exhibition games in Washington, New York and Pittsburgh on Saturday gave Major League Baseball its first look at coronavirus-era games — fake crowd noise and all.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2020 at 1:03 AM CDT
|By Rob Gillies
The Blue Jays have been denied approval by the Canadian government to play in Toronto amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2020 at 7:26 PM CDT
Major League Baseball's COVID-19 testing sweep appears to be having some success even as large swaths of the United States continue to struggle with containing the fast-spreading virus.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2020 at 11:20 AM CDT
|By STEPHEN WHYNO
The Washington Post reported that 15 female former employees of the city’s NFL franchise said they were sexually harassed during their time with the team.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2020 at 4:42 PM CDT
|By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer
The nation's largest governing body for college sports on Thursday released its latest guidance to help member schools navigate competition during the pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2020 at 10:44 PM CDT
Up to 30,000 fans were allowed to attend Wednesday night's race, NASCAR's largest with spectators since the coronavirus pandemic shut down sports in March.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2020 at 1:24 PM CDT
Organizers have canceled the 2021 New Year’s Day Rose Parade due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2020 at 2:13 PM CDT
The team said it has had conversations with several Native American communities and changing the name of the Braves "is not under consideration or is considered necessary."
Updated: Jul. 13, 2020 at 2:12 PM CDT
The team launched a 'thorough review' of the name July 3 that the NFL supported. That came in the aftermath of prominent sponsors FedEx, Nike, PepsiCo and Bank of America calling for a change.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2020 at 2:06 PM CDT
|By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer
As recently as Sunday, the Rockets believed that Westbrook and James Harden — neither of whom traveled with the team to Walt Disney World near Orlando last week — would be with the team in the next few days.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2020 at 4:12 PM CDT
One of Michigan's most beloved sports and entertainment venues was turned into rubble on Saturday with a series of controlled explosions.
Updated: Jul. 10, 2020 at 7:05 PM CDT
The Pac-12 has become the second major conference to shift to a conference-only fall schedule amid growing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 10, 2020 at 6:19 PM CDT
The agreements were tentatively agreed to on Monday, and approved nearly four months to the day since the NHL halted its season with 189 games remaining.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2020 at 3:37 PM CDT
|By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer
Besides football, the sports affected include men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2020 at 11:47 AM CDT
|By DOUG FEINBERG and JIMMY GOLEN
A person with knowledge of the decision says the Ivy League will not play sports this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2020 at 7:29 AM CDT
|By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer
The poll by the Japan News Network said only 17% thought it could be held next year in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2020 at 12:42 AM CDT
|By John Wawrow and Stephen Whyno
The National Hockey League and NHL Players’ Association have reached a tentative agreement to return to play this season and extend their collective bargaining agreement by four years.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 11:15 PM CDT
|By Bernie Wilson
By the time MLB revealed each team’s 60-game slate, last year's World Series teams, the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, had canceled workouts because of COVID-19 testing delays.