More college games off due to COVID-19

Four more major college football games scheduled for Saturday — including two with ranked Big 12 teams — were canceled, bringing the total to 10 for this week. Oklahoma, No. 11 in the College Football Playoff rankings, will not play at West Virginia because of COVID-19 issues with the Mountaineers. No. 23 Texas paused its football activities, calling off the season finale at Kansas.

And the 10th-ranked Duke men’s basketball team said it will not play any more nonconference games this season.

Duke’s decision followed coronavirus-related postponements of three nonconference games this year. The school said it was a precaution that would also allow players to spend time with families over the holidays.

The Blue Devils will no longer play Gardner-Webb on Dec. 19 and won’t reschedule previously postponed games against Elon and Charleston Southern. Duke will face ACC foe Notre Dame on Dec. 16 and then won’t play again until Pittsburgh on Dec. 29.

“This is the best decision we could make as a program, in making sure that we are doing the right thing for our players,” coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

Washington at Oregon also was canceled. The rivalry game would have determined the Pac-12 North champion and a spot in the conference title game.

Texas Tech closed its football facility after eight members of the staff joined coach Matt Wells among those with positive tests for COVID-19. In the MAC, Miami (Ohio)’s game at Bowling Green was canceled.

Baseball: Dave Dombrowski was finalizing a deal to take over as president of baseball operations for the Phillies. Dombrowski, 64, won a championship as architect of the Red Sox’s 2018 World Series championship team but was fired a year later.

Golf: Victor Perez of France shot a 5-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead over three players at the European Tour’s season-ending World Tour Championship in Dubai.

NFL: Panthers All-Pro RB Christian McCaffrey likely won’t play Sunday against the Broncos. McCaffrey missed the last three games with a shoulder injury and then aggravated a quad injury that first occurred last week in training.

Tennis: Alex Olmedo, who won the Wimbledon and Australian Championships singles titles in 1959 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, died of brain cancer Wednesday. He was 84. Olmedo was born in Peru in 1936 and moved to the U.S. as a teenager. He went to the Southern California, where he won NCAA tennis championships in singles and doubles in both 1956 and 1958. Olmedo played in the Davis Cup for the U.S. and led the team to the trophy in 1958, when he also paired with Ham Richardson to win the doubles title at the U.S. National Championships, the tournament now known as the U.S. Open.