Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Return to play or not? A thorny question for youth sports
By: Schuyler Dixon Konrad Ott and some of the parents with his Northern California girls volleyball club skipped a popular Florida tournament that is now postponed. They could soon face a similar deci...
May 16, 2020
MLB projects $640K per game loss with no fans
By: Ronald Blum NEW YORK - Major League Baseball told players their prorated salaries would contribute to an average loss of $640,000 for each game over an 82-game season in empty ballparks, according...
May 16, 2020
CDC reports 1,435,098 coronavirus cases, 87,315 deaths
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday reported a total of 1,435,098 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 22,977 cases from its previous count, and s...
May 16, 2020
Bank of England looking more urgently at negative rates, riskier assets: Haldane
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England is looking more urgently at options such as negative interest rates and buying riskier assets to prop up the country's economy to fight the coronavirus crisis, t...
May 16, 2020
White House says Trump fired State Dept. watchdog at Pompeo's request
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired the State Department's inspector general following a recommendation by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the White House said on Saturday. "...
May 16, 2020
Fed says around 600 smaller banks tapped PPP facility in its first days
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Around 600 banks, most of them small community institutions, tapped the Federal Reserve's Paycheck Protection Program facility for about $30 billion of loans as of May 6, the U....
May 16, 2020
New York to reopen auto, horse-racing tracks without fans
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's Watkins Glen International auto race circuit and several horse racing tracks in the state can reopen without fans from June 1, Governor Andrew Cuomo said...
May 16, 2020
MLB plan: No showers, no spitting and social distancing
Major League Baseball will perform thousands of tests for the coronavirus each week and require social distancing among players and staff, according to its road map of how the league can return to pla...
May 16, 2020
Veteran Hemsky makes retirement official
Fifteen-year veteran Ales Hemsky officially retired from the NHL. Hemsky, 36, was the No. 13 overall pick in the 2001 NHL Draft by the Oilers and spent 10-plus seasons in Edmonton. He also played for ...
May 16, 2020
Italy PM says taking calculated risk in rolling back lockdown
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian Prime MInister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday Italy was taking a calculated risk in rolling back lockdown measures from next week as the daily death toll from the COVID-19 p...
May 16, 2020
