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Post by IceCat on Jul 25, 2020 1:46:13 GMT
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Post by philknj on Jul 29, 2020 21:13:29 GMT
The people blasting Cowboy Joe West for non-PC comments and umpiring at age 67 should issue him an apology. He's not one of the Miami Marlin dummies who went out on the town in Atlanta and gave the cooties to most of his teammates afterward. Meanwhile, some incompetent umpire does nothing as pitches go zipping past the heads of various Astros. There's supposed to be a six-foot rule this year ... allegedly. What's Dusty Baker (age 71) doing back in baseball anyway? He doesn't need this s@#& anymore. ******** RARE FIND!!!! Somebody posted Game 3 of the 1976 ALCS (KC at NYY) carried by ABC on YouTube a week ago. I hadn't seen that game in 44 years and had no memory of it, so it was like watching it LIVE. Broadcasting trivia - a hostile review by Sports Illustrated said Bob Uecker did the play-by-play for the first game. However, Keith Jackson took over for Uecker starting with Game 2 ... they didn't say why and maybe Keith didn't know why, as his fractured baseball terminology was evident in Game 3. Reggie Jackson was also in the booth and was a bit incoherent ... he was part of the first free agent class and must have been excited seeing the Yankees trying to get by with Elliott Maddox (!) starting in right field. Last and least was How-wuhd Cosell, who let us know that the following evening 'The Bionic Woman' was being pre-empted by 'Wonder Woman' (she enters a beauty contest to trap Nazi spies), 'Baretta' (his life is endangered by a snoop reporter who just wants a story), and 'Charlie's Angels' (they go after a psychopathic killer and risk their own pretty necks) ... yes, Fred Silverman ruled the world in 1976.
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Post by SoYeonFan on Aug 11, 2020 21:35:05 GMT
Big Ten and Pac-12 Conference has cancelled fall College Football. They are considering playing in the Spring of 2021.
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Post by IceCat on Aug 12, 2020 4:43:29 GMT
The NBA has multiple venues available to them at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex to play their games. The NHL. on the other hand, is utilizing just one arena at each of their two bubbles, and when you have one playoff game (Columbus/Tampa Bay) running into 5 overtimes that kind of messes with the schedule. Long before that game ended the Bruins and Hurricanes, who were due to start their series right afterwards, were told to go back to their hotel and set an early alarm because they'll be playing at 11am Wednesday.
While the NHL was cheekily thanking the fans in the stands, and then cutting to a shot of a handful of fans - the electric kind, that is, and they weren't even plugged in - the KBO and the K League were given the go-ahead to sell tickets to their games up to 25% capacity, up from 10%. Masks have to be worn at all times and two other measures to minimize the spread of COVID-19 were implemented: no loud cheering and no food or drink. Fans also have to be physically distanced from each other. Despite the fact that one fan who attended a recent KBO game later tested positive the league hasn't shut down: they disinfected the stadium overnight and kept to the schedule.
As the Southern Hemisphere winter drags on and Australia sees an uptick in coronavirus cases, especially in greater Melbourne, the AFL and the NRL have had to adjust their schedules on the fly in order to fill the prime time TV slots and keep the TV revenue trickling in even as states impose border restrictions and lockdowns which have seen teams uprooted from their normal homes. The NRL's New Zealand Warriors haven't been able to play a single game in their home country because of travel restrictions between Australia and New Zealand, and since late June (the NRL's Melbourne Storm) and early July (the AFL's 10 clubs in greater Melbourne) neither league has played a single game in the state of Victoria due to the surge in cases there. At first playing before empty stadiums when they were allowed to resume their seasons, both leagues are now allowing a limited number of fans to attend, the percentage of capacity dictated by the local physical distancing restrictions. They've each also adjusted the length of matches and other minor rules tweaks to speed up the contests, and assuming no further suspensions in the season they're both scheduled to conclude in late October.
Kevin
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Post by IceCat on Aug 12, 2020 4:56:28 GMT
The autumn Asian swing is now in the firing line, and Shanghai was the first to pull up the welcome mat for 2020. Given the varying degrees of restrictions among Korea, Taiwan and Japan there's no guarantee that those events will happen either.
Kevin
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 12, 2020 10:13:12 GMT
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Post by IceCat on Aug 13, 2020 3:15:18 GMT
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Post by IceCat on Aug 14, 2020 10:07:09 GMT
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Post by IceCat on Aug 18, 2020 2:44:23 GMT
While the NHL was cheekily thanking the fans in the stands, and then cutting to a shot of a handful of fans - the electric kind, that is, and they weren't even plugged in - the KBO and the K League were given the go-ahead to sell tickets to their games up to 25% capacity, up from 10%. Masks have to be worn at all times and two other measures to minimize the spread of COVID-19 were implemented: no loud cheering and no food or drink. Fans also have to be physically distanced from each other. Despite the fact that one fan who attended a recent KBO game later tested positive the league hasn't shut down: they disinfected the stadium overnight and kept to the schedule. Well that was short lived, at least in Greater Seoul. Over the weekend an ultra right wing Protestant church held an anti-government rally in the capital on National Liberation Day despite being warned by the city not to, with no one wearing a face mask or practicing social distancing. This particular church and another one on the outskirts of Seoul account for most of the spike in COVID-19 infections in the country at levels not seen since March, prompting the national government to wind back their "everyday life quarantine" guidelines from Level 1 (least restrictive) to Level 2. Among other things, indoor gatherings are again limited to 50 people and outdoor activities to 100, forcing KBO and K-League teams in Greater Seoul to again play behind closed doors. If this outbreak isn't brought under control soon it could have repercussions on the LPGA, or at least on the BMW Championship in Busan, to say nothing on the wider impact on the economy.
The CFL has officially canceled its season for the first time since the last pandemic over a century ago. Their proposal was for an abbreviated season contested entirely in one city, but they couldn't secure financial support from Ottawa to make it happen.www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-cancel-season-pandemic-1.5689252Kevin
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Post by IceCat on Aug 23, 2020 2:26:24 GMT
The South Korean government has extended the Level 2 social distancing restrictions to the entire country, not just Greater Seoul.
You guys probably already know this, but the Kia Classic is off the calendar for this year.
New Hampshire lifted its indoor dining restrictions, and just in time too as Bike Week in Laconia, the biggest motorcycle event in the country after Sturgis, is fast approaching. Not so big this year, of course, but many businesses in the Lakes Region hope to salvage something from the summer season.
Kevin
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Post by philknj on Aug 27, 2020 21:27:41 GMT
Tonyj, can you use your LPGA media cred to find out what's going on with the 2020 KPMG in October? Ever since ShopRite/Acer announced in early August that they'd ban spectators and drop the pro-ams, I've been expecting the other shoe to drop across the river. But, I check the KPMG/PGA website daily and I see nothing new ... you can still be a volunteer and order tickets, although I don't know who'd be nuts enough to buy them at this moment ... and I won't have a chance to meet my "contact" the week before to get freebies. They still haven't posted anything on spectator parking or transportation. I see nothing relevant on the event's IG account or on Aronimink's IG. I don't know how long it takes to build the physical infrastructure for this event and there is no evidence that they started. I went to philly.com and delcotimes.com, but they had nothing on golf in the sports section (no surprise there). The recent uptick in cooties cases in the SE Pennsy area is due primarily to effin' idiots in college getting drunk or wasted en masse ... in other words, people who wouldn't be caught dead at this tournament, anyway. I'm hoping that KPMG (management consultants) has the arrogance to say, "we can do what the supermarket tournaments can't do."
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Post by IceCat on Aug 28, 2020 2:50:50 GMT
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Post by philknj on Sept 1, 2020 3:04:21 GMT
The PGA Tour announced it was moving its ZOZO Championship (Oct. 22-25) from Japan to Sherwood CC. I don't expect the LPGA tour to make similar moves with its upcoming events in Korea and Japan.
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Post by IceCat on Sept 1, 2020 4:26:37 GMT
Shin Jung-rak, a pitcher recently sent down to the minor Futures League by the KBO's Hanhwa Eagles, has become the first athlete in Korean professional sports to test positive for COVID-19. His minor league team's games have been suspended as his contacts are traced and he begins his 2 weeks of quarantine. For now the KBO remains in action.
To avoid a crippling hit to the economy that Level 3 restrictions would have, the governments of Seoul, Incheon and Gyeongi province have implemented a new Level 2.5 of social distancing for the next week. The main effect is to reduce gatherings after dark by limiting restaurants to delivery and take out after 9pm, reducing the frequency of night bus service and banning visits to hospitals and long-term care centers. This is in addition to the Level 2 closures of most public facilities and high density venues along with reducing gatherings to 50 people indoors/100 outdoors. This as the country continues to have new daily infections in the triple digits for the second week running.
Kevin
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Post by IceCat on Sept 4, 2020 9:22:14 GMT
The AFL Grand Final in this crazy pandemic-shortened season will be held outside of greater Melbourne - and at night - for the first time ever, which seems fitting since much of the competition in recent weeks has been staged in Queensland anyway due to state border restrictions across Australia.www.afl.com.au/news/494986/afl-statement-on-grand-final-date-and-venueKevin
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