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Clemson is No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' preseason poll for a second straight year. The Tigers received 38 of 65 first-place votes in the poll released Thursday. Clemson is seeking its third national title in five years after losing 42-25 to LSU in last season's championship game. Ohio State, which lost 29-23 to Clemson in ...

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LINDSBORG - Bethany College Department of Athletics announced it is launching a new varsity Esports program set to begin in Fall 2021. Bethany College will be commencing a national search in the coming weeks to find the program's first head coach. The team will practice and compete in a state of the art lab in the Mingenback Art Center. The ...

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KANSAS CITY -- During Royals rookie left-hander Kris Bubic’s MLB debut last week, he admitted that nerves got the best of him early. Bubic had no such issue Wednesday night as he mowed down the first nine Cubs he faced at Kauffman Stadium, striking out four. The Royals, however, lost, 6-1, extending their losing streak to six games. Bubic ...

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Division II’s seven fall 2020 championships are canceled, the Division II Presidents Council decided Wednesday due to the operational, logistical and financial challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. The council made the move after the NCAA Board of Governors directed each division to make a decision on its fall sport championships. The Board of Governors also directed each division ...

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NCAA Division III championships in fall sports for 2020-21 are canceled. With the health and safety of the division’s student-athletes, coaches, athletics administrators and communities as its priority, the Division III Presidents Council made the decision Wednesday to cancel the championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related administrative and financial challenges. The Board of Governors directed each division ...

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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State will take on Pac-12 foe Oregon State in the first round of the 2020 Cayman Islands Classic on Monday, November 23, as tournament organizers announced the complete bracket for the since relocated tournament on Wednesday (August 5). The fourth annual event is being moved to Niceville, Florida and Raider Arena on the ...

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The NCAA Board of Governors has directed schools and conferences to meet specific requirements if they are to conduct NCAA fall sports during the preseason, regular season and postseason. Further, each division is directed to determine its ability to meet those requirements to conduct fall championships. The board expressed serious concerns about the continuing high levels of COVID-19 ...

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STORRS, Conn. (AP) UConn canceled its 2020-2021 football season Wednesday, becoming the first FBS program to do so because of the coronavirus pandemic, as other schools had taken the Huskies off their schedules and the governor was reluctant to allow UConn to travel to states with high infection rates. ''After receiving guidance from state and public ...

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The Big Ten released its 10-game conference-only football schedule beginning as early as Labor Day weekend but cautioned there is no certainty games will be played. The Big Ten had announced a month ago it would shorten the season and eliminate nonconference games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Under the revised schedule, teams will play conference opponents ...

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Brady Singer began his third Major League start by striking out Cubs leadoff man Kris Bryant on a slider that darted wickedly out of the strike zone. His finish in the fifth inning was equally impressive: a 92 mph heater that Javier Báez chased up in the strike zone and missed. In between, there were flashes ...

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This is the ace the Royals hoped left-hander Danny Duffy would turn into in 2020. Duffy delivered six strong innings -- the first Kansas City starter to go that deep into a game this season -- but it wasn’t enough for the Royals in a 2-0 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field on Monday night. The Royals ...