TEXAS A&M BOSS: FULL SLATE POSSIBLE WITH OCTOBER START
Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp said Wednesday that officials believe a 13-game college football schedule would be possible even if the start of the season were delayed until October because of the new coronavirus.
The season is scheduled to begin with seven FBS games Aug. 29 before the majority of teams open the following week.
Speaking in a live video discussion with the Texas Tribune, Sharp addressed the football season in answering a question about the university system’s lost revenue because of college sporting events which have been canceled because of the COVID-19 virus.
Hamilton indicted, accused of beating daughter.
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Josh Hamilton was indicted on a felony charge of injury to a child after his teenage daughter accused him of beating her.
A Tarrant County grand jury indicted the 38-year-old Hamilton, who remains free on $30,000 bond after he turned himself in to authorities on Oct. 30. If convicted, he faces a prison sentence of two to 10 years in prison.
Track worlds rescheduled for July 2022. The first major domino tipped in the wake of the Olympic postponement when track leaders rescheduled next year’s world championships for July 2022, setting up a busy summer for a sport that would normally be taking a breather.
The new dates for the event in Eugene, Oregon: July 15-24, 2022.
Track worlds are one of the largest global sporting events this side of the Olympics, drawing around 1,800 athletes from more than 200 countries. But unlike the International Olympic Committee, which postponed its centerpiece event by exactly 52 weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, World Athletics had to pick dates to coordinate with other events already on the 2022 calendar.
It chose a spot 49 weeks after the original dates of Aug. 6-15, 2021, which are now dates that overlap with the end of the rescheduled Tokyo Games.
Olympic flame taken off display. TOKYO» The Tokyo Olympic flame has been taken off public display in Japan. And it’s not clear when it will reappear again or where — or under what conditions.
The flame arrived in Japan from Greece on March 26. After the Tokyo Olympics and the torch relay were postponed until next year, the flame was put on display in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima. It was to remain on display through the end of April.
Fan sues Woods, caddie. A Florida man filed a lawsuit against Tiger Woods and his caddie, claiming he suffered injuries from the caddie pushing him out of the way during the Valspar Championship that Woods played two years ago.
The civil complaint, filed in Pinellas County, alleges Brian Borruso tried to take a selfie as Woods approached his tee shot left of the 13th green in the third round at Innisbrook, and that Joe LaCava “intentionally shoved” Borruso and caused him to stumble and fall into the crowd.
Josh Drechsel, the lawyer representing Borruso, said the lawsuit was filed two years after the tournament to get a better understanding of the injuries, which were described in the suit as “either permanent or continuing.”
USWNT gender discrimination case delayed. The trial date for a gender discrimination case filed by members of the U.S. women’s national soccer team has been delayed to June 16.
Players for the team filed a lawsuit against U.S. Soccer last year under the Equal Pay Act and the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. They allege that they have not been paid equitably when compared to players on the men’s team and have asked for more than $66 million in damages.
The trial date was originally set for May 5 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.