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Korean baseball increases stadium fan capacity to 25 percent

SEOUL (UPI) -- The Korea Baseball Organization, which began allowing fans back to games last month, will raise its stadium capacity from 10% to 25% starting Tuesday, the league announced. Korea's Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Culture last week gave the go-ahead for the league to bring back up to 30% of fans, but the KBO decided to keep the level at 25% to be able to maintain social distancing at each venue. "The allowable crowd size is up to […]

todayAugust 11, 2020

General News

GMAC authority postponing some fall sports over looming COVID concerns

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Great Midwest Athletic Conference Presidents’ Council has postponed the fall championship segments in football, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and volleyball, as decided on Monday morning. The conference schedule and championships in each of these high contact risk sports, as defined by the NCAA Resocialization of Collegiate Sport guidelines, will be moved to the spring season. Cross country, golf and tennis will resume activities The Great Midwest is maintaining the cross country championship segment in the fall as […]

todayAugust 10, 2020

National

Big Ten coaches and players fighting to save 2020 season

Coaches and players are fighting back in the face of potential cancellation of the Big Ten football season. Reports broke on Monday morning that the decision had been made and an announcement would be coming on Tuesday. The Big Ten features Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, and Wisconsin. https://twitter.com/HuskerSports/status/1292895821676056576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw More than a dozen players, all from Power Five conferences, released a statement saying they want to play in 2020. […]

todayAugust 10, 2020

National

Texas Tech fires WBB coach Marlene Stollings after abuse claims

LUBBOCK, Tex. (UPI) -- Texas Tech University has fired women's basketball coach Marlene Stollings after a dozen players left the team and a news report that detailed alleged abuse and harassment by coaches. The Intercollegiate, a college sports investigative media outlet, obtained exit interviews from players of the last two seasons by way of public records requests. USA Today published the results of those interviews Wednesday as part of an investigative report. Ten players, two former assistant coaches and two […]

todayAugust 7, 2020

Golf News

Thomas likely to challenge favored Koepka at PGA Championship

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- World No. 1 Justin Thomas is expected to challenge defending champion Brooks Koepka this week at the PGA Championship, the first major event of the resumed PGA Tour season. Oddsmakers have Koepka as the best bet to win the tournament, with Thomas either listed as the second favorite to win. Thomas won the 2017 PGA Championship before Koepka's back-to-back titles in 2018 and 2019. "I feel like I've been playing better than my results since we […]

todayAugust 5, 2020

Olympics News

Qatar exploring bid to host 2032 Summer Olympics

DOHA, Qatar (UPI) -- Athletic officials in Qatar said Monday they have requested discussions with the International Olympic Committee to host the 2032 Summer Games. Qatar's organizing committee filed a "continuous dialogue" request to the IOC to explore the possibility of hosting the world's largest international sporting event 12 years from now and follow Paris and Los Angeles as host of the Summer Olympics. The continuous dialog request begins the process of exploratory talks with the IOC by nations interested in […]

todayJuly 27, 2020

Golf News

Michael Thompson wins 3M Open for second PGA Tour victory

BLAINE, Minn. (UPI) -- Michael Thompson birdied two of his final three holes Sunday for a 4-under 67 and a two-shot win over Adam Long in the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minn. It marked Thompson's second PGA Tour victory, with his previous triumph coming seven years ago at the 2013 Honda Classic. "It is a little sad that there wasn't anybody out there to cheer on some of the great shots that I hit toward the […]

todayJuly 27, 2020

MLB News

Trump pulls out of throwing first pitch at August Yankees game

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Donald Trump said Sunday that he will no longer throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the New York Yankees' game against the Boston Red Sox on Aug. 15. Trump wrote on Twitter that he can't make it to New York for the matchup because of his "strong focus" on the coronavirus pandemic and the economy. He promised to "make it later in the season." "Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled […]

todayJuly 26, 2020

AEW News

WWE loses a massive media contract to AEW

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) have been going at it every Wednesday. AEW's Dynamite faces off against WWE's developmental territory in NXT on what appears to be a Wednesday repeat of the Monday Night Wars: USA vs. TNT. Since the debuts of both programs, AEW Dynamite has been dominating the rating wars. Chris Jericho recently took the opportunity to explain the demographics to the viewership, proclaiming himself as the Demo God. So what's […]

todayJuly 26, 2020

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