CFL cancels 2020 season

The CFL has canceled its 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It marks the first year the Grey Cup won’t be presented since 1919.

The nine-team league announced the move Monday, dashing hopes of a shortened season in the hub city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The decision comes after the CFL couldn’t solve a number of issues in an effort to salvage a season.

“Our league governors decided today it is in the best long-term interests of the CFL to concentrate on the future,” commissioner Randy Ambrosie said.

Colleges

The NCAA will likely decide next month whether to start the college basketball season on time or have a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. ciation has canceled all national junior events through Oct. 12.

• Angela Buxton, a British player who was the doubles partner of Althea Gibson when the American became the first Black person to win a major title in 1956, has died. She was 85.

Basketball

WNBA All-Star center Liz Cambage will return to the Australian women’s league after signing with the Southside Flyers.

Soccer

Barcelona fired coach Quique Setien Monday, three days after the team’s humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, the first step in what it said would be “a wide-ranging restructuring” of the club.

• Soccer’s U.S. Open Cup has been canceled this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 tournament was suspended in early March shortly before it was supposed to kick off. The final was to be held on either Sept. 22 or 23.

• Inter Milan is back in a European final for the first time in a decade. Lautaro Martinez and Romelu Lukaku scored twice each as Inter Milan demolished Shakhtar Donetsk, 5-0, in the Europa League semifinals in Dusseldorf, Germany.