Current Sports News From Around The World.: March 2020

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Sabrina Ionescu's 'Everglow' speech featured on quick look at 'Our Stories'

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N.F.L. Plays on Twitter and Brackets for Everything

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton shared his favorite plays on Twitter, alternative brackets are still getting busted and a Swedish soccer friendly was canceled after bettors swarmed.https://nyti.ms/33Y8GNS

Swin Cash's remarkable basketball journey

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Coronavirus Presents an Existential Threat to Some Pro Tennis Events

By BY CHRISTOPHER CLAREY from NYT Sports It is already difficult for the lowest events on the men’s and women’s tours, even in a good economy. Now, the upending of the sports calendar by the coronavirus means some tournaments may not exist next year.https://nyti.ms/2UvkTXi

FIFA Plans Huge New Emergency Fund

By BY TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports FIFA is drawing up plans to tap its $2.7 billion cash reserve and create an emergency fund to support the ailing soccer industry.https://nyti.ms/2WZkHRF

FIFA Plans Huge New Emergency Fund

By BY TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports FIFA is drawing up plans to tap its $2.7 billion cash reserve and create an emergency fund to support the ailing soccer industryhttps://https://nyti.ms/3axomtT

Monday, March 30, 2020

N.C.A.A. Allows Extra Year of Eligibility for Athletes in Curtailed Spring Sports

By BY BILLY WITZ from NYT Sports The decision did not cover winter sports, like basketball and gymnastics, which had postseason events disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.https://nyti.ms/33Xgmjp

Coronavirus Pandemic Hobbles World Antidoping Efforts

By BY MATTHEW FUTTERMAN from NYT Sports Collectors of biological samples can’t do their work in the expanding global lockdown, making it difficult to carry out effective antidoping programs.https://nyti.ms/341d3bg

A Triple Crown Hopeful Emerges and Athlete Workouts Get a J. Lo Cameo

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Tiz the Law won the Florida Derby, a prep race for the Kentucky Derby, which now isn’t till September. And athletes are creating new ways of practicing on their own, with mixed results.https://nyti.ms/2wRmHRx

Which college hoops team is the best of all time?

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Summer Olympics in Tokyo to Start on July 23, 2021

By BY TARIQ PANJA AND MOTOKO RICH from NYT Sports The new date for the Games, postponed for a year in response to the coronavirus pandemic, gives athletes time to recalibrate their training schedules.https://nyti.ms/2xEzzKD

Online, Virtual Games Escape the New Reality

By BY KEVIN LILES from NYT Sports With their ability to be played online, e-sports are one of the last bastions of competitive sports in a world upended by the coronavirus pandemic.https://nyti.ms/2QWtMai

Sacred Heart Is No Hockey School. $60 Million Could Change That.

By BY DAVE CALDWELL from NYT Sports Under its athletic director, Bobby Valentine, the small Connecticut university is expanding its facilities in the hopes of becoming a college hockey power.https://nyti.ms/2WV7nOb

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Texas A&M's Carter declares for WNBA draft

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Arizona's McDonald to return for senior season

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How Skiing Through a Pandemic Can Create a Community Crisis

By BY SHAUNA FARNELL from NYT Sports North American ski resorts have closed in response to the coronavirus, but mountain sports have still drawn crowds, alarming public safety officials.https://nyti.ms/39qsg6O

Saturday, March 28, 2020

James L. Dolan, the Knicks Owner, Tests Positive for the Coronavirus

By BY SOPAN DEB from NYT Sports Dolan is the first N.B.A. owner to publicly confirmhttps://https://nyti.ms/2QUQK1k

Tokyo Olympics Organizers Considering July 2021 for Opening Ceremony

By BY TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports The 2020 Summer Games, postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, would start July 23, 2021 under a plan organizers are considering.https://nyti.ms/3bwya7z

Villanova hires Denise Dillon as new women's hoops coach

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They Celebrated Basketball and a Birthday. Then Came Coronavirus.

By BY JOHN BRANCH AND MARC STEIN from NYT Sports A tight social circle bound by New York City basketball is hit hard by Covid-19, with two dead and others ailing.https://nyti.ms/3dvpi49

Sabrina Ionescu’s Big Moment Wasn’t the One She Expected

By BY KURT STREETER from NYT Sports The Oregon star had been called “the puppet master” by Kobe Bryant, but faced tragedy and canceled games in what was supposed to be a dream college season.https://nyti.ms/2WOuvOs

Friday, March 27, 2020

M.L.B. and Players’ Union Lay Out Framework to Navigate Suspended Season

By BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports The deal addresses issues including players’ service time and free agency, and how to handle the postseason in case a shortened season can be played.https://nyti.ms/2JnjkEG

Clubs Sell Community. Now Is the Time to Pay It Back.

By BY RORY SMITH from NYT Sports Soccer embraces the idea that its teams are not just businesses, but social institutions, part of their cities. Right now, that can’t just be marketing rhetoric.https://nyti.ms/2yfOhIv

Jimmy Wynn, ‘Toy Cannon’ Known for His Home Runs, Dies at 78

By BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Just 5-foot-9 but packed with power, he was a mainstay of the Houston Astros’ lineup for 11 years in the 1960s and ’70s and a three-time All-Star.https://nyti.ms/2wLbuSi

Future Players Take a Big Hit as M.L.B. Navigates a Crisis

By BY TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports The baseball draft could be drastically reduced in a deal cut with the players’ union to address complications of the game’s suspension.https://nyti.ms/3brQP4o

No Swimming Pools? No Sports to Announce? No Problem.

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Sports commentators and swimmers are having to get especially creative. Plus, we look at the sports weekend that would have been.https://nyti.ms/3apwNHJ

How the N.F.L. Draft Process Works From Home

By BY KEN BELSON from NYT Sports With in-person contact limited, teams are rethinking their typically rigorous approach to assessing prospects. “The organizations that handle the stress best will win,” one team executive said.https://nyti.ms/33PwCTH

The I.O.C. Let an Olympic Boxing Qualifier Happen Despite Virus Warnings

By BY TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports Seven people tested positive for the coronavirus after taking part in the European qualifying tournament for the Tokyo Games.https://nyti.ms/2QSfBmF

Gene Luen Yang Discovers the Art of Basketball

By BY GEORGE GENE GUSTINES from NYT Sports The cartoonist discussed his first graphic novel that is nonfiction, the way basketball has invaded his life and the biggest thing about “Linsanity.”https://nyti.ms/3dvXkoJ

Thursday, March 26, 2020

With No Basketball Tournament, N.C.A.A Slashes Payments to Universities

By BY BILLY WITZ from NYT Sports The annual payment to conferences was cut to a total of $225 million, down from the $600 million that was budgeted before the coronavirus led to widespread cancellations in sports.https://nyti.ms/2UFjexd

Curly Neal, Globetrotters’ Dazzling Dribbler, Dies at 77

By BY MARC STEIN from NYT Sports He admittedly “didn’t know anything about being funny” when he joined the comedic basketball team, but he became one of its biggest stars.https://nyti.ms/39pb7ds

Stephen Curry Hosts Coronavirus Discussion on Instagram Live

By BY SOPAN DEB from NYT Sports More than 50,000 viewers, including former President Barack Obama, were watching at the peak of the 30-minute chat with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.https://nyti.ms/2QPOYP5

Work Out With Venus Williams. Then Debate Stefon Diggs.

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Have you always wanted to work out with a professional athlete? Now may be the time. Here’s how athletes are keeping busy today.https://nyti.ms/2vRNNrf

Chiney Ogwumike gives updates on WNBA season, life without live sports on 'Pac-12 Playlist'

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FIFA Races Toward a Plan to Help Soccer Clubs Survive Shutdown

By BY TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports With leagues and clubs around the world scrambling to sort out issues from player compensation to future transactions, the global governing body is trying to provide a new framework.https://nyti.ms/3dxMOgQ

Coronavirus Protective Masks to Be Made From M.L.B. Uniform Material

By BY DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports The deal will send masks to health professionals in the Northeast with the distinctive pinstripes of the Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies.https://nyti.ms/33QdIff

Baseball Season Opens With a Dash of Imagination

By BY DAN BARRY from NYT Sports Complaints of baseball’s slow pace yielded to the universal wish that this game would last forever.https://nyti.ms/3bwuQJV

Chiney Ogwumike on 'jarring' sports hiatus, scenario for remote WNBA Draft

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W.N.B.A. Will Hold ‘Virtual’ Draft in April

By BY HOWARD MEGDAL from NYT Sports The league is keeping its scheduled date of April 17 but adapting the format to allow draftees to have their moment in the spotlight no matter where they are.https://nyti.ms/3amitQq

Why the U.S. Lagged Behind in the Drive to Postpone the Summer Olympics

By BY MATTHEW FUTTERMAN AND ANDREW KEH from NYT Sports New leadership was intended to build trust and confidence following an abuse scandal, but athletes say they are frustrated the organization fell behind in the groundswell to postpone the Games.https://nyti.ms/2y5uv2c

It’s Opening Day. Baseball Is Closed.

By BY TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports Instead of red, white and blue bunting and crowds flooding ballparks, we have players holed up in homes and endless questions about when baseball will return. When it does, it will be more important than ever.https://nyti.ms/2QNpQZd

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