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NFL: Prescott signs tender
Dak Prescott plans to be at training camp with the Cowboys, if and when it starts, on the richest one-year contract in franchise history.
There is also still time to work out a long-term deal for the star quarterback.
Prescott signed his $31.4 million tender under the franchise tag. That comes just over three weeks before the July 15 deadline to agree on a long-term deal.
By signing the offer under the franchise tag, Prescott is obligated to report for all team activities or risk being fined. He didn’t participate in the club’s virtual offseason program while unsigned.
GOLF: No crowds for PGA Champ.
The PGA of America confirmed the first major of this most unusual year, the PGA Championship, won’t have spectators.
The PGA Championship, originally scheduled for May 14-17 in San Francisco, now is set for Aug. 6-9 and will be the first of three majors this year. The U.S. Open moved from June to Sept. 17-20 at Winged Foot, with the Masters moving to November two weeks before Thanksgiving. The British Open was canceled.
ETC.: Virus sidelines NWSL team
The Orlando Pride have withdrawn from the upcoming National Women’s Soccer League tournament after six players and four staff members tested positive for COVID-19.
The NWSL is the first professional team sport to return amid the coronavirus outbreak. The month-long Challenge Cup tournament is set to start Saturday in Utah.
Croatian tennis player Borna Coric says he has tested positive for the coronavirus after taking part in an exhibition event. The 33rd-ranked Coric says he is feeling well and has no symptoms.
Iowa’s athletic department says nine athletes, coaches or staff have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week.
That accounts for nearly one-quarter of the 40 tests conducted in that time frame. Since the beginning of the return-to-campus protocol May 29, there have been 12 positives among 386 tests.
Five more Baylor athletes have tested positive for COVID-19, making it eight positives from among 109 tests conducted in the process of returning to campus for voluntary workouts and conditioning.