Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill is hospitalized with COVID-19

Various persons in and around the NFL have tested positive for coronavirus. Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill becomes the first to be hospitalized with COVID-19. The Cardinals announced that Bidwill has the virus, and that he is expected to be released from the hospital this weekend. Per the team’s website, Bidwill had been “traveling and spending [more]

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Pac-12 will play only a conference schedule in 2020

The Pac-12 announced Friday night it will play a conference-only schedule for all fall sports, including football. The conference joins the Big Ten, which announced the same Thursday. The other three members of the Power Five have yet to decide how to approach this coming season. The Pac-12’s CEO Group, made up of university presidents [more]

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NFL, NFLPA still have major issues to negotiate

The NFL and NFL Players Association have approached the negotiations on the 2020 season like negotiations on a broader labor deal: Start with the easy issues, and then move to the difficult ones. As to football in a pandemic, the easy ones are done. The difficult ones remain. Ian Rapoport of the NFL reports that [more]

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Sports teams would qualify for exemption from NJ 14-day quarantine

New Jersey, New York and Connecticut have instituted travel advisories calling for people traveling to those states from areas with increasing rates of COVID-19 to quarantine themselves for 14 days once they arrive. Connecticut doesn’t have an NFL team, but the other two states do and that’s raised questions about how all this will be [more]

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“OL Masterminds Summit” proceeds in Texas this weekend

They’re calling it the “OL Masterminds Summit.” The litmus test as to whether the individuals participating are truly “masterminds” is whether they’ll realize that they shouldn’t attend. Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News explains that the event, featuring 50 offensive lineman, will proceed as scheduled in Texas this weekend. The event will mainly unfold [more]

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Donovan Smith: Risking health “does not seem like a risk worth taking”

With just over two weeks before players are scheduled to return to training camps, the NFL hasn’t had to deal with players opting out the way other sports have seen. But one fairly significant part of a team with hopes to contend admitted Friday he had major concerns about returning to work during a pandemic. [more]

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Questions emerge about sports draining public resources

With American professional sports beginning to return at a time when the coronavirus is washing through the nation unrestrained, the importance of prioritized COVID-19 testing for sports gives rise to important questions regarding the strain placed on resources otherwise available to the public. As explained by Tom Haberstroh of NBC Sports Philadelphia, efforts by the [more]

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