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Sources: Thanksgiving weekend start an option for Big Ten football
Adam Rittenberg and Mark Schlabach, ESPN
The Big Ten is discussing Thanksgiving weekend as one of several options to start its football season, sources told ESPN. An early January start with an eight- or nine-game schedule at indoor venues has generated the most discussion so far, but pushing the season kickoff to around Thanksgiving also is under consideration.
College football kicks off COVID-19 style in Alabama
John Zenor, The Associated Press
With masks, social distancing and mostly empty stands, the college football season kicked off COVID-19 style. Austin Peay and Central Arkansas, two teams fresh from FCS playoff appearances, took the stage at Cramton Bowl Saturday night in the Guardian Kickoff Classic.
Auburn reports 9 positive COVID-19 tests during 'challenging week;' 16 players out this week
Tom Green, AL.com
Auburn's second week of fall practice ground to a halt amid positive COVID-19 test results. After reporting back-to-back weeks with no new positive coronavirus cases, Auburn reported a total of nine positive new cases this week, according to coach Gus Malzahn, resulting in a temporary pause on fall camp.
Moos says he's willing to host pods should NCAA basketball go that route with schedule
Chris Basnett, Lincoln Journal-Star
As the will-they-or-won't-they discourse swirls over just if or when the Big Ten will play football at some point in the coming months, the league's basketball teams have moved to in-school workouts still awaiting their own green flag to get going. While it remains to be seen just what Nebraska's - or any other school's hoops schedule - will pan out, NU athletic director Bill Moos recently perhaps offered some insight.
Making a Power move: AAC has a seat at the table
Michael Smith, Sports Business Journal
With the Pac-12 and Big Ten sitting out this fall because of COVID-19 concerns, the AAC is firmly among the top four along with the ACC, Big 12 and SEC. Even though this not how Aresco wanted to be considered a power conference, the AAC does have a unique opportunity to crash the College Football Playoff party.
---Morning Consult
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- Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen, who last week criticized his team's decision not to play a scheduled match in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake and was subsequently accused of prior racist remarks, intends to sell Utah Soccer Holdings, which in addition to the MLS club also includes NWSL's Utah Royals FC and USL's Real Monarchs. The Larry H. Miller group, which owns the Utah Jazz, has expressed interest in acquiring Real Salt Lake, as have Ryan Smith, the co-founder and CEO of Qualtrics, Toronto FC forward Jozy Altidore and Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt. (The Salt Lake Tribune)
- The U.S. Open begins today without fans in attendance at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, N.Y., after No. 17 seed Benoit Paire of France became the first player scheduled to compete to test positive for COVID-19, according to a tournament official speaking on the condition of anonymity. Paire, who did not appear well before retiring from last week's Western & Southern Open, will be replaced in the U.S. Open draw by Marcel Granollers of Spain, and tournament officials were conducting contact tracing following the positive test. (USA Today)
- Hedge fund manager Steve Cohen is in exclusive talks to purchase the New York Mets, according to multiple sources close to the sale process, after fending off competing bids from a group of investors led by Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, as well as one from Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer. Cohen, who had been close to reaching a $2.6 billion deal with Mets ownership late last year, is expected to come to a definitive agreement within days and would take control of the team immediately, unlike under the 2019 agreement. (CNBC)
Sources: Thanksgiving weekend start an option for Big Ten football
Adam Rittenberg and Mark Schlabach, ESPN
The Big Ten is discussing Thanksgiving weekend as one of several options to start its football season, sources told ESPN. An early January start with an eight- or nine-game schedule at indoor venues has generated the most discussion so far, but pushing the season kickoff to around Thanksgiving also is under consideration.
College football kicks off COVID-19 style in Alabama
John Zenor, The Associated Press
With masks, social distancing and mostly empty stands, the college football season kicked off COVID-19 style. Austin Peay and Central Arkansas, two teams fresh from FCS playoff appearances, took the stage at Cramton Bowl Saturday night in the Guardian Kickoff Classic.
Auburn reports 9 positive COVID-19 tests during 'challenging week;' 16 players out this week
Tom Green, AL.com
Auburn's second week of fall practice ground to a halt amid positive COVID-19 test results. After reporting back-to-back weeks with no new positive coronavirus cases, Auburn reported a total of nine positive new cases this week, according to coach Gus Malzahn, resulting in a temporary pause on fall camp.
Moos says he's willing to host pods should NCAA basketball go that route with schedule
Chris Basnett, Lincoln Journal-Star
As the will-they-or-won't-they discourse swirls over just if or when the Big Ten will play football at some point in the coming months, the league's basketball teams have moved to in-school workouts still awaiting their own green flag to get going. While it remains to be seen just what Nebraska's - or any other school's hoops schedule - will pan out, NU athletic director Bill Moos recently perhaps offered some insight.
Making a Power move: AAC has a seat at the table
Michael Smith, Sports Business Journal
With the Pac-12 and Big Ten sitting out this fall because of COVID-19 concerns, the AAC is firmly among the top four along with the ACC, Big 12 and SEC. Even though this not how Aresco wanted to be considered a power conference, the AAC does have a unique opportunity to crash the College Football Playoff party.
---Morning Consult
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Ma
