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FIFA Races Toward a Plan to Help Soccer Clubs Survive Shutdown
Tariq Panja//35 views/2 comments
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 pr...
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Coronavirus Protective Masks to Be Made From M.L.B. Uniform Material
David Waldstein//35 views/2 comments
The deal will send masks to health professionals in the Northeast with the distinctive pinstripes of the Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. Had the baseball...
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Baseball Season Opens With a Dash of Imagination
Dan Barry//32 views
Credit...Pascal Rossignol/Reuters Professional baseball greeted a new season this afternoon with an Opening Day game for the ages, an extra-inning masterpiece t...
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W.N.B.A. Will Hold ‘Virtual’ Draft in April
Howard Megdal//38 views/1 comments
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. T...
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Why the U.S. Lagged Behind in the Drive to Postpone the Summer Olympics
Matthew Futterman, Andrew Keh//28 views
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 g...
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Fanatics makes MLB masks and gowns to fight coronavirus
Eric Irwin//46 views
They were supposed to be celebrating Opening Day, but instead Major League Baseball and Fanatics are teaming up for a very different cause: the fight against CO...
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Coronavirus: How the NBA is planning to save its season
Jeremy Zimmerman//33 views/1 comments
The National Basketball Association is already thinking about how it could rescue its season, and a revised tournament in Las Vegas leading to the finals could ...
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IOC reportedly working toward July-August Olympics in 2021
Steven Baker//38 views/1 comments
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is working with sports bodies to arrange a July-August window for the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and hopes to co...
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How the Yankees’ Minor Leaguers Spent 2 Weeks in Quarantine
James Wagner//38 views/1 comments
A positive coronavirus test for a teammate meant every Yankees minor leaguer had to spend two weeks isolated in Florida. They got creative to keep busy and stay...
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Can It Still Be ‘Euro 2020’ in 2021? Sponsors Hope So
Tariq Panja//37 views/1 comments
The coronavirus pandemic pushed the European Championship to 2021. For companies with warehouses full of Euro 2020 merchandise, it may be better to pretend noth...
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Sorry to Other Sports, But I Want the XFL Back Most of All
Hannah Smothers//30 views/1 comments
It is rare that life affords us the privilege of knowing when we’re doing something for the last time. I couldn’t tell you anything about the last ball I threw...
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On the Schedule: Chess, Horse Racing and Children Lifting
Victor Mather//28 views/1 comments
the day in (no) sports Even the National Spelling Bee was canceled. But you can watch professional athletes work out at home with their children (as both coache...
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The Coronavirus and the Postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Explained
Andrew Keh//32 views
Your questions answered on what happened and what’s next with the Summer Olympics now not happening this year in Tokyo. After weeks of uncertainty amid the coro...
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A Year of ‘What If’ for the N.B.A.
Marc Stein//35 views/1 comments
marc stein on basketball In this week’s newsletter, Marc Stein discusses the postponement of the Olympics and the basketball connection to his late father. Want...
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Deciding to Postpone the Olympics Was Tough. Actually Moving Them May Be Tougher.
Andrew Keh, Motoko Rich, Tariq Panja//39 views
An entirely new challenge greets the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo: Pulling off the Games in 2021 instead of in 2020, as originally planned. Postpon...