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College athletic departments are quiet, spring sports seasons have been canceled and the future of college athletics is as clear as mud thanks to the financial uncertainty created by the coronavirus pandemic. The commissioners of the Group of Five conferences are concerned. The commissioners of the AAC, Mountain West, MAC, Sun Belt and Conference USA sent…

When will sports come back?Brian Kilmeade and Harris Faulkner discuss UFC boss Dana White holding a fight on a private island and when sport might start back upGet all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday the future of sports likely includes games…

(CNN)Jacqueline Towns, the mother of NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns, died on Monday due to complications as a result of the novel coronavirus, according to a statement from a Towns family spokesperson released by Towns’ team, the Minnesota Timberwolves.”The Towns family is heartbroken by the untimely passing of Jacqueline Towns due complications as a result of…

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We will use your email address to send you newsletters. Please see ourPrivacy Noticefor more information on how we use your data and your data protection rights.Invalid EmailOn a crisp April morning 15 years ago, a nervous bride-to-be had to be coaxed out of bed, terrified by her impending nuptials. While many people experience big…

Screenshot: Star Wars Kids (YouTube)Remember when the coronavirus was not all anyone talked about? Remember the days when the topic that dominated conversation was a certain big-eared, wide-eyed little being that sort of resembles Yoda but in an impossibly cute way? I am, of course, referring to The Child, better known in all of our…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is having quite the year. Since becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez has set out to find her footing in American politics. So far this year she’s made a fair number of profoundly eloquent speeches on the House floor, gotten real about climate change by sponsoring the Green…

Facebook will launch a worldwide project to track coronavirus, Mark Zuckerberg has said. The company has recently started rolling out a survey that asks people about their symptoms in an attempt to track the spread of covid-19 in the US, and will soon make it available globally, the Facebook boss said. The research is being…

(CNN)Iranian Instagram influencer Fatemeh Khishvand, known as “Sahar Tabar,” has contracted coronavirus while in prison accused of blasphemy, according to her lawyer.Payam Derafshan published an open letter to the head of Iran’s judiciary, Ebrahim Reisei, in a plea for clemency for his client.”Her arrest warrant was issued in October 2018, at the time she was…

David McWilliams: I think it is fair to say that capitalism – in the course of this unprecedented crisis – has been suspended. We are not going back to where we were, to business as usual. The state has come back, and this episode will not be forgotten by the electorate. I don’t know where…

“Will & Grace” star Debra Messing, who’s promoting her partnership with Colgate Optic White, told INSIDER that the show has stood out since its start in September 1998 because of the way it has addressed politics and current events. “We were provocative and we really pushed boundaries and we said shocking things and we talked about…

Tesco has more than doubled its number of delivery slots to 1.2m during the coronavirus lockdown. Photograph: Ben Stevens/Parsons Media Online grocery sales are expected to surge by more than a quarter this year as the coronavirus lockdown prompts more families to shop from home. Supermarkets have ramped up online operations to serve millions more…

Miss Americana: Taylor Swift experiences a political awakening. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty “It’s time to take the masking tape off my mouth. Like, forever.” It’s with this trademark flourish that global superstar Taylor Swift, freshly open about her political beliefs, tells the world she’s permanently done with keeping her opinions politely to herself. Director Lana Wilson’s new documentary Miss Americana…

12:02 PM ETESPN staffMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S plan to start the season by July 4 relies on a dizzying array of moving parts, including the cooperation of 27 U.S. cities and a foreign country, the availability of more than 200,000 reliable coronavirus tests and a promise not to interfere with the nationwide fight to contain the…

Grocery stores could see meat shortages by the end of this week, according to experts, after least 13 plant staff died from COVID-19 and 5,000 called out sick. Meat processing plants across the United States have been forced to shutter amid coronavirus outbreaks. The chairman of Tyson Foods warned Sunday that ‘the food supply chain’ is breaking.And with…