Online: Jets have no positive tests, game with Arizona will be played.
All New York Jets players and coaches have tested negative for COVID-19, and Sunday’s game against Arizona will be played on time.
The Jets posted a statement on social media Friday night, hours after their training facility was closed due to a presumptive positive coronavirus test for one player.
The league has had 60 cases since testing began in which one player or staff member tested positive and there wasn’t further transmission among the team. By sending everyone home from the facility Friday morning, the Jets took the appropriate steps under the NFL/ NFLPA COVID-19 protocols. And then the 100% negative tests were announced in the evening.
SOURCE: TITANS GET GOOD NEWSWITH NO POSITIVE RESULTS >> The Tennessee Titans got some good news with no positive test results hours after the NFL rescheduled their game with Buffalo to Tuesday night, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.
The Titans’ outbreak increased to 23 on Thursday with 21 positive results returned since Sept. 29. Now the Titans have gone three of the past five days without a positive test after the latest results.
COWBOYS LT SMITH OUT FOR YEAR >> Pro Bowl left tackle Tyron Smith is having season- ending neck surgery, another blow to a Dallas offensive line that will be without both starting tackles for the rest of the year.
Coach Mike McCarthy said Smith’s injury was a “correctable situation,” but didn’t get into any timelines on when the seventime Pro Bowler might be ready in the offseason.
Smith injured his neck in practice the week after the opener and missed two games before returning and playing all 82 snaps in last week’s 49-38 loss to Cleveland.
Pro basketball
NBA RETURNING TO CHINESE STATE TELEVISION >> The NBA is returning to Chinese state television after a one-year absence.
CCTV announced that it would air Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat — the first time that the league would appear on the network since the rift that started when Houston Rockets general manager Dar yl Morey tweeted support for antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong.
CCT V quickly halted its relationship with the NBA after Morey’s tweet, even though the post was quickly deleted. Given the timing, it appears the suspension of NBA coverage by that network was designed to last one year; CCTV announced on Oct. 8, 2019, that it was beginning an immediate investigation into its relationship with the NBA, stemming from the network being “strongly dissatisfied” over the league’s decision to not sanction Morey.
College basketball
MOUNTAIN WEST TO BEGIN CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IN DECEMBER >> The Mountain West Conference will play an 18- game basketball schedule, starting in late December.
The season will begin on Dec. 29 and conclude March 6, according to a news release.
Each team will play nine home games and make nine road trips, with individual schedules to be released later.
The conference tournament will be held March 10-13 in Las Vegas.
Golf
CANTLAY ATOP LEADERBOARD IN LAS VEGAS >> Patrick Cantlay ran off four straight birdies at the midway point of his round and got up-and- down from a bunker on the par-5 ninth to cap off a 6-under 65 and share the early 36-hole lead at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.
Martin Laird hit his second shot into 4 feet for eagle on his closing hole at the ninth for a 63. They were at 14-under 128 going into a weekend with a forecast of dry, warm weather and plenty of birdies.
Among early starters, they were two shots ahead of Sergio Garcia (64), James Hahn (66), Nate Lashley (67) and the resurgent Stewart Cink (63), who began the new season by winning the Safeway Open for his first title since he won the British Open at Turnberry in 2009.
WOMEN’S PGA LOSES NO. 2 PLAYER AS NELLY KORDA WITHDRAWS >> Nelly Korda withdrew from the Women’s PGA Championship because of back pain.
Korda, the No. 2 player in women’s golf, opened with a 1- over 71 at Aronimink Golf Club and was four shots out of the lead.
Skiing
SHIFFRIN SKIPS SEASONOPENER WITH BACK ISSUE >> Mikaela Shiffrin postponed her return to World Cup skiing for at least another month, pulling out of next week’s season- opening giant slalom in Austria with a back issue.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist and threetime overall World Cup champion, who hasn’t raced in nearly nine