After a four-month break, forcing the cancellation of the remainder of its 2020 Torneo Clausura championship, Mexico’s Liga MX was supposed to resume on Thursday with the first game of the 2020 TorneoApertura. But Mexican clubs have struggled with Covid-19 outbreaks, and it’s already impacted the new campaign, dubbed the Torneo Guard1anes 2020: — Ten […]
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What They're Saying: John Sutyak
“We were looking at $30,000 just to test all of our fall student-athletes one time, and then all of a sudden it becomes you should do this … once a week. That’s not realistic. And,to be honest, does that serve the community, that we’re testing our kids all the time? Would we even have the […]
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Covid-19: USL pro leagues have 17 individuals test positive over two weeks
The United Soccer League released its first report of testing done on players and club staff at USL Championship and League One teams: USL Championship: 2,357 tests administered on1,227 individuals from 35 clubs, nine persons testing positive from eight clubs. USL League One: 720 tests administered on 385 individuals from 12 clubs, eight persons testingpositive from […]
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What They're Saying: Cindy Parlow Cone
“I’m not gonna lie—it was like feeding from 10 firehoses at once. It wasn’t just, ‘Okay, you’re assuming the presidency’; it was, ‘You’re assumingthe presidency in the middle of a pandemic, the entire sports world is shut down, your country is shutting down, and financially we don’t know where we’re headed.’ So there was a […]
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Monday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. High school sports face many obstacles as school year nears By Tim Booth and Schuyler Dixon (AP) 2. Bundesliga issues guidelines for return of fans, Health Ministry warns of ‘great risk’By Michael Da Silva (Deutsche Welle) 3. Michael Emenalo: ‘The narrative thatwhite is good has to change’ By Donald McRae (The Observer)
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Covid-19: USL Championship match called off because of positive test result
The USL Championship was the first U.S. pro league to restart with league matches in home stadiums — and in some cases fans in the stands — when play resumed last weekend. But it had tocall off its first match since the restart when an individual on Rio Grande Valley FC tested positive for Covid-19. […]
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Thursday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. Sports amid coronavirus: Are league testing protocols impacting the U.S.’s pandemic fight? By Henry Bushnell (Yahoo Sports) 2. Youth sports a driver of Covid-19 infections in St. Louis area By BlytheBernhard (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) 3. Their soccer journeys took Sam and Kristie Mewisapart. The NWSL restart brought them back together By Tara Sullivan (Boston […]
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Australia: Melbourne teams stuck in 14-day quarantine while A-League resumes
Australia’s A-League was one of the last leagues to shut down before the Covid-19 pandemic took hold around world. It is set to resume play on Friday after a four-month hiatus, but a newspike in Covid-19 cases in the Melbourne area has forced three teams to relocate and delayed their restart. Melbourne Victory, Western United […]
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MLS is Back: The Week 1 verdict
MLS in Back completed its first week on Tuesday. How did it do? Probably the best way to put it — it survived. Low point. Following the removal of FC Dallas andNashville SC for a rash of Covid-19 cases and confirmed positive cases for one player each from the Columbus Crew and Sporting KC, the low […]
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The new normal — another day of drama and doubt at MLS is Back
MLS’s schedule-makers — and its Covid-19 testers — have been working overtime in Florida. After five days of the MLS is Back Tournament at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, gameshave had to be postponed or cancelled on four of them because of Covid-19-related outbreaks or protocols. And on the fifth day, a weather […]