HURRICANE MOVES LSU-MISSOURI GAME
Saturday's game between Missouri and No. 17 LSU has been moved to Missouri's home stadium and will be played in the morning because of Hurricane Delta.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement that moving the game was in the best interest of safety for Louisiana.
The game will be played at 9 a.m. PDT in Columbia, Mo., after being previously scheduled for Saturday night in Baton Rouge, La.
The conference is monitoring the hurricane's path and communicating with schools about its potential impact on other sports.
“It was critical to relocate the game to an SEC campus where SEC COVID-19 management protocols are in place and readily applied,” Sankey said in the statement.
LSU (1-1, 1-1 SEC) looks to follow a 41-7 rout of Vanderbilt, while Mizzou (0-2, 0-2) is coming off a 35-12 loss to then-No. 21 Tennessee.
Also, the threat of the hurricane led to the postponement of No. 23 Louisiana's game against visiting Coastal Carolina from Saturday to the night of Oct. 14.
The move gives the unbeaten Ragin' Cajuns (3-0, 2-0 Sun Belt) an opportunity to showcase their program in what is now slated to be a nationally televised Wednesday night game on ESPN.
NHL
Trade action is heating up on the second day of the NHL Draft.
The Pittsburgh Penguins got the movement started Wednesday by trading twotime Stanley Cup-winning goaltender Matt Murray to the Ottawa Senators. Minutes later, the Nashville Predators dealt former Penguins forward Nick Bonino and two picks to the Minnesota Wild for Luke Kunin and a selection later in the draft.
Pittsburgh got a secondround pick, 52nd overall, and forward prospect Jonathan Gruden for Murray, who is a restricted free agent in need of a new contract. Murray, 26, helped the Penguins win the Cup in 2016 and 2017, but they committed to Tristan Jarry, signing him to a $10.5 million, three-year deal after his AllStar season.
Minnesota got second- and third-round picks (37th and 70th overall) and sent a fourth (101st) to Nashville to take on the remainder of Bonino's contract. He's owed $4.1 million next season, while Kunin is a restricted free agent.
Nashville also put forward Kyle Turris and defenseman Steven Santini on buyout waivers. Turris had four years and $24 million left on his contract, so he'll count $2 million against the Predators' cap for the next eight seasons
It took over seven hours to complete rounds 2-7 Wednesday at the draft held online from 31 teams' draft rooms to the league's central registry and a TV studio in New Jersey.
Soccer
Ayo Akinola scored and Toronto FC (10-2-4) beat the New England Revolution (5-4-7) 1-0 to break a tie with Eastern Conference rival Columbus for the MLS lead.
Bojan Krkic scored on a penalty kick in the 74th minute to help Montreal (6-8-2) beat Columbus (9-3-4).
A diversity report for racial and gender hiring in Major League Soccer reported a high score for hiring people of color but a fourth straight decline in the hiring of women at the team and league level.
Colorado's home game against Los Angeles FC was postponed Wednesday night after a member of the Rapids' staff tested positive for the coronavirus.
Also
Swimming world champion Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda broke the world record in the men's 10,000 meters shortly after Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey had set a mark in the women's 5,000 at a specially held track meet in Valencia.
Cheptegei crossed the line in 26 minutes, 11 seconds to break Kenenisa Bekele's mark of 26:17.53 set in Brussels in 2005. Gidey's time of 14:06.62 was almost five seconds better than the previous record set by fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba in Oslo in 2008.
They were both helped by the “wavelight pacing technology,” with lights streaming along the track to show the pace of the previous record.
Vince Bagli, a sportscaster whose career covering Baltimore sports spanned nearly five decades, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Former driver Justin Marks has started a new NASCAR team that will field a car in 2021 for Daniel Suarez. The team is called Trackhouse Racing and will field the No. 99 Chevrolet for Suarez, who will drive for his fourth team in four years. The team will have an alliance with Richard Childress Racing.