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Tour de France teams can be excluded if two riders test positive for coronavirus – UCI
(Reuters) - Tour de France teams can be excluded if two riders from the same outfit test positive for the coronavirus within a seven-day period during the race, the International Cycling Union (UCI) s...
Aug 28, 2020
Bernal still recovering, but ready to be Ineos’s sole leader
NICE, France (Reuters) - Egan Bernal is ready to defend his Tour de France title as the sole leader of the Ineos Grenadiers team despite nagging back pain. The Colombian pulled out of the Criterium du...
Aug 28, 2020
NBA star LeBron James emerges as potent political force ahead of November U.S. election
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - Two years after a conservative commentator told LeBron James to "shut up and dribble," the NBA star has become an increasingly influential political...
Aug 28, 2020
Everything done for Tour to be raced in safe conditions – Brailsford
By Julien Pretot NICE, France (Reuters) - Ineos Grenadiers team principal Dave Brailsford believes everything has been done so that the Tour de France can be raced in safe conditions as the number of ...
Aug 28, 2020
Soccer: UK anti-racism charity calls for support from clubs
(Reuters) - Anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card has called on soccer clubs in England, Scotland and Wales to help educate young people about issues relating to race and spread the message of ...
Aug 28, 2020
Dodgers carry MLB’s best mark into series with Rangers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are the hottest team in baseball as they roll into the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex on Friday to begin a three-game interleague series with the hapless Texas Rangers. It will be...
Aug 28, 2020
Burnes, Holland get nods in Pirates-Brewers opener
The Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers are set to play baseball Friday at Miller Park, but that doesn't mean they are overlooking the civil unrest and Black Lives Matter protests that have sprea...
Aug 28, 2020
Arizona’s Hall of Fame coach Olson dies aged 85
(Reuters) - Hall of Fame basketball coach Lute Olson, who guided the Arizona Wildcats to their only NCAA championship in 1997, has died aged 85, the university confirmed on Thursday. Olson was hospita...
Aug 28, 2020
MLS to investigate Salt Lake owner’s alleged racist comments
(Reuters) - Major League Soccer (MLS) said on Thursday it will investigate allegations made in a report that Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen used racist language. "We are deeply concerned about t...
Aug 28, 2020
Japan, eyeing Olympics, lines up half-billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is making an aggressive move to grab enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate its population four times over, a push the government hopes will instil confidence t...
Aug 28, 2020
