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  Big Ten and Pac-12 Cancel Their 2020 Football Seasons, Big XII and SEC Forge Ahead

  August 12 at 5:48 a.m.

  At its highest levels, in the Power Five conferences, college football has always been part cartel, part "Game of Thrones." On the one hand, these five conferences have managed to hoard most of the power and TV money the sport claims, and on the other hand, one conference will gladly...

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  As Training Camp Begins, NFL Gets Good News on COVID-19 Testing Front

  August 10 at 4:30 a.m.

  I think even the most tunnel-visioned sports fanatics would admit that they knew the return fo sports amid a global pandemic was going to be a dicey proposition, with many peaks and valleys. The NBA's bubble in Orlando has been as close to flawless as it gets, with literally three...

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  Is the Unique Game Plan Enough for the Rockets?

  August 5 at 6:29 a.m.

  The start to the NBA restart has been a success. Plenty of exciting games and, most importantly, no new cases of the coronavirus. The Rockets have started 2-1, including a rather dead-legged loss to Portland on Tuesday night. But, even with the solid start with wins over both the Mavs...

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  Would a Verlander Season Ending Injury Be Houston's Most Devastating Ever?

  August 5 at 4 a.m.

  The Houston Astros are 5-4 to start the 2020 season, putting them firmly in a slog of around-.500 teams that, if things hold up over 60 games, should cruise into the postseason under the expanded 16-team format, either as the eventual winner of the AL West or as one of...

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  Four Thoughts on The Rock's Surreal $15 Million Purchase of the XFL

  August 4 at 4 a.m.

  Back in 2002, during the highest of WWE's popularity, the company shot an on-screen, scripted angle where 16-time World Champion and then-soon-t0-be Hall of Famers Ric Flair found a way to arrange for a consortium of anonymous folks to buy up WWE stock and seize control of the company from...

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  The Four Most Important Tidbits Deshaun Watson and J.J. Watt Gave Us On Saturday

  August 3 at 4 a.m.

  The return to some semblance of sports normalcy has not been without its well documented hiccups. Just ask, Rob Manfred, commissioner of Major League Baseball, who's spent most of the last week praying for negative COVID-19 tests to come back from teams that have brushed up against the Marlins and...