Baseball’s Shortened Season Opens; Post Season to be Expanded
Major League Baseball opened the 60 game 2020 regular season with a pair of games on July 23rd, a day ahead of the openers for the other 26 teams. The...
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Dodgers Sign Mookie Betts to Enormous 12 Year Deal
As part of their efforts to finally get over the hump and win a World Series for the first time since 1988, the Los Angeles Dodgers made a trade over...
Blue Jays Will Not Play in Canada During the Regular Season
Baseball is set to return with its shortened 60 game season beginning July 23rd. While the clubs will play home games in their home ballparks (with no fans present), the...
Chase Elliot Wins NASCAR’s All Star Race
NASCAR held its annual All Star race at Bristol Speedway on July 15th, a different venue than the usual one at Charlotte. That’s because a limited number of fans were...
Stanley Cup Playoffs Will Start August 1st in Hub Cities of Edmonton and Toronto
The National Hockey League Players Association and the NHL have an agreement to begin the Stanley Cup Playoffs on August 1st, resuming a season that was interrupted in March by...
Big Ten Will Play a Conference Only Schedule for Fall 2020 Sports
The Big Ten announced on July 9th that it will only play conference games in all fall sports in 2020. This includes men’s and women’s soccer and cross country, women’s...
Ivy League Postpones All Sports Until At Least January 2021
The Ivy League announced on July 8th that all its NCAA fall sports will not be played during the 2020 fall semester, and won’t resume until at least January 1st...
Kevin Harvik and Scott Dixon Win at Big Racing Weekend in Indianapolis
It was a doubleheader of auto racing in Indianapolis over the Independence Day Weekend, with the IndyCar Grand Prix on the 4th of July and NASCARs’ Brickyard 400 on July...
Baseball All Star Game Cancelled; More Players Opting Out of 2020 Season
We didn’t know it was still on, but baseball has officially cancelled the 2020 All Star Game, which had been set for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Instead, the Dodgers...
Cubs Lefthander Jose Quintana Injures Pitching Hand Washing Dishes
Freak non sports related injuries to athletes aren’t uncommon. The latest such injury happened to Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jose Quintana. It seems the lefthander injured the thumb on his...
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