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Back in April, not long after the pandemic canceled the NCAA basketball tournament, the idea of moving the 2020 college football to the spring of 2021 was already being tossed around. A last resort is what it was called by conference commissioners and athletic directors.

All Times Eastern (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) (Seeding in parentheses; home team listed last) EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND At Toronto (1)Philadelphia vs. (8)Montreal Wednesday, Aug.

Zach Johnson had quick success after a long road to the PGA Tour. He won as a rookie and reached the Tour Championship in Atlanta, where one of the perks was attending a ceremony to watch Jay Haas accept the Payne Stewart Award.

The Ponca City Lady Cats softball team opened the 2020 season with a pair of losses Monday. In games played at the West Middle School softball field, the Lady Cats lost first to Chandler 6-0 and then latter in the day were beaten 9-6 by Blackwell.

A long time ago I wrote about the late Yogi Berra, specifically about the sayings that have been attributed to him. Yogi had a way of saying things that seemed funny at first, but when you considered them at length, there was a grain of solid philosophy imbedded within. The most famous example was “It ain’t over until its over.”

ROUNDING THIRD base after hitting a home run is Ponca City’s Margaret Blackstar during a scrimmage session Friday at the West Middle School softball field. The Lady Cats scrimmaged with Morrison and Perry during the event. Blackstar hit the only home run. The softball season officially got underway Monday with games against Chandler and Blackwell in Ponca City. Larry Williams provided this photo.

PITCHING DURING a softball scrimmage Friday is Ponca City’s Savannah Clark. The Lady Cats scrimmaged at the West Middle School softball field against Morrison and Perry on Friday and opened their season officially Monday with games against Chandler and Blackwell, also in Ponca City. This photo was provided by Larry Williams.

Michigan defensive back Hunter Reynolds saw the tweets from Trevor Lawrence and other college football players, pushing for the opportunity to play this season, despite the pandemic. Reynolds, one of the organizers behind a players’ rights movement in the Big Ten, didn’t like the way some on social media seemed to be pitting Lawrence’s message against the efforts of #BigTenUnited and #WeAreUnited.

If all you saw were the highlights of how Collin Morikawa beat back the biggest names in golf and walked off with the PGA Championship, you’d conclude he did it the old-fashioned way. The 23-year-old Californian delivered a 6-under 64 in the final round, including a signature shot that fans will be talking about for decades.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Rookie Darius Bazley scored a career-high 23 points off the bench, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat Washington 121-103 on Sunday to keep the Wizards the only winless team inside the NBA bubble.