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Dr. Anthony Fauci Warns MLB Season May Have To Be Stopped

It has been a disastrous first week back to play for the MLB. A few days after games began more than a dozen members of the Marlins team and staff tested positive for COVID-19, which…

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Trump Was Never Scheduled To Throw Out First Pitch For Yankees, Only Announced Event Due To Jealousy Of Dr. Anthony Fauci

Over the weekend, and an hour before Dr. Anthony Fauci was set to throw out the first pitch at a Washington Nationals game, President Donald Trump tweeted that he would no longer be throwing out…

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Dont’a Hightower Joins 4 Patriots Players In Opting Out Of 2020 Season

Patriots linebacker and defensive captain Dont’a Hightower is opting out of the 2020 NFL season. Hightower, who became a first-time father on July 16, joins four other Patriots notably including offensive lineman Marcus Cannon and…

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MLB Return As 14 Marlins Test Positive For COVID-19

The morning before the Miami Marlins were set to play their home opener against the Baltimore Orioles it was reported that eight Marlins players and two coaches tested positive for COVID-19, which makes a total…

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Angels’ Two-Way Star Ohtani Fails To Get An Out In First Pitching Outing

After getting Tommy John surgery in September 2018 Angels’ two-way star Shohei Ohtani took the mound for the first time during Sunday’s game against the Oakland Athletics and things did not go well for Ohtani,…

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Washington Redskins Rename Themselves ‘The Washington Football Team’

In times like these, it’s always important to bring some levity to the situation and what better to do that than an incompetent NFL franchise providing another great nugget unintentional comedy. Under pressure from the…

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Mike Trout Announces He Is Playing Despite COVID-19 Concerns

2019 AL MVP Mike Trout has confirmed that he is playing with a simple message on the Anaheim Angels Twitter account. This comes after Trout had previously expressed concerns about restarting the season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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All Eyes On Lakers As NBA Returns: Can LeBron James Snatch MVP Title From Giannis Antetokounmpo?

It’s probably not the way he pictured it happening, but LeBron James and the Lakers’ mission for a title, James’ fourth, hasn’t slowed down. Back when the season shut down in March the Lakers were…

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Trump Cancels Plans To Throw Out First Pitch For Yankees Citing ‘China Virus’

On Sunday afternoon, President Donald Trump tweeted that he no longer plans on throwing out the first pitch for the August 15 game between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox citing that he needs to…

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MLB Players’ Union Discuss Upping 2020 Playoff Teams From 10 To 16

With the MLB season kicking off this Saturday with an abbreviated 60-game regular-season schedule, the MLB network reported that the Players’ Union is discussing upping the number of teams in this year’s playoffs from 10…

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Oklahoma State RB Chuba Hubbard Taking Social Media Break After Backlash To Tweets

On Tuesday, Oklahoma State Chuba Hubbard who rushed for over 2,000 yards last season announced on Twitter that he would be taking a social media break citing that his accounts and the platform had become a…

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Mookie Betts Newest Baseball Star To Ink $300+ Million Contract

Recently acquired star outfielder Mookie Betts inked a 12-year $365 million extension with the LA Dodgers on Wednesday. Betts having been traded to the Dodgers by the Boston Red Sox in February for what felt…

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Business Owners Speak Out On Impact Of No Fans In Stadiums

With the MLB and NBA seasons preparing to restart in the next few weeks with no fans in attendance, many team owners have started to speak out about the financial impacts having no ticket sales…

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Widespread Kneeling Seen Across MLB On Opening Day

With the 2020 MLB season starting on Thursday the league kicked things off with two games between the New York and Yankees and the Washington Nationals followed by a west coast matchup between the Los…

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Antonio Brown Shows Frustration With NFL Investigation Contradicting Monday’s “Retirement”

On his Instagram account Wednesday, NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown blasted the NFL calling for them to wrap up an investigation they were conducting into the sexual assault allegations levied against him by Brown’s former…

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NBA Installs Timeout Chairs For Games In Orlando

In the newest of a series of stringent moves that the NBA has made in order to enforce social distancing in the NBA Orlando bubble, the league has installed movable timeout chairs so that the…

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NBA To Have Black Lives Matter Printed On Orlando Courts

Displays of solidarity from the NBA for the Black Lives Matter Movement continue. When the league unveiled the courts that games will be played on during the Orlando restart, the words “Black Lives Matter” were…

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Giannis Antetokounmpo Reveals He Had Access To A Hoop During Quarantine, Despite Comments

Bucks forward, and presumptive 2020 NBA MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo revealed after Tuesday’s practice in Orlando that he did in fact have access to a hoop during the months-long quarantine that the country went through earlier this year.…

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NBA Reports Zero Positive Tests In Bubble

The NBA and NBAPA said on Monday that the last week of tests, starting July 13, have yielded zero positive tests of the 346 players tested. This is encouraging news since the first scrimmages of…

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Mark Cuban Goes After ‘National Anthem Police’ & Sen. Ted Cruz

Over the course of Sunday and Monday, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban went after, as he put them, the “National Anthem Police” who have been criticizing the NBA for kneeling during the national anthem. This,…

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Texans’ Kenny Stills Has Charges Dropped After Protest

Kenny Stills had his felony charges dropped on Friday after participating in a protest on Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron‘s lawn, to get him to charge the officers who shot Breonna Taylor after barging into…

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