More college games off due toCOVID-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 thisweek. Oklahoma, No. 11 in the CollegeFootball Playoffrankings, will not play at West Virginia because of COVID-19 issues with the Mountaineers. No. 23Texas pausedits football activities, calling off the season finale at Kansas.

And the 10th- ranked Duke men’s basketball teamsaid it willnot play any more nonconferencegames this season.

Duke’s decision followed coronavirus-related postponementsof threenonconference games this year. The school said itwas a precaution that would also allow players to spend time with familiesover 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 NotreDame 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 forourplayers,” 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 conferencetitlegame.

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 gameatBowlingGreenwas canceled.

Baseball: DaveDombrowski was finalizing a deal to take over as president of baseball operations for the Phillies. Dombrowski, 64, wona championship as architect of theRedSox’s 2018World Series championship team butwas fired a year later.

Golf: VictorPerezofFrance shot a 5-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead over three players at the European

Tour’s season- ending WorldTour Championship in Dubai.

Panthers All-Pro RB ChristianMcCaffrey 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 lastweek in training.

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Tennis: Alex Olmedo, who won the Wimbledon and Australian Championships singles titles in 1959andwas inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, died of brain cancer Wednesday. He was 84. Olmedowas born inPeru in 1936 and moved to the U.S. as a teenager. Hewent tothe Southern California, where hewonNCAAtennischampionships 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, whenhe also paired with Ham Richardson to win the doubles title at the U.S. National Championships, the tournament now knownas theU.S. Open.