NFL game rescheduled, Ravens’ bye now Week 7
The Tennessee Titans now know when they are rescheduled to play the Pittsburgh Steelers after the first NFL game postponed by a COVID-19 outbreak.
Getting back into their own building depends on the results of continued testing. The Titans’ outbreak expanded by two more players testing positive Friday, pushing the team’s total to 14 within the past week.
The outbreak forced the NFL to postpone Tennessee’s game from Sunday to Oct. 25 in Week 7, forcing the Steelers into their unplanned bye. Pittsburgh now will play Baltimore on Nov. 1 with the Ravens’ bye now pushed to Week 7 instead of Week 8, which had been the bye for both teams.
Baseball
LANDIS’ NAME PULLED OFF BASEBALL MVP PLAQUES AFTER 75 YEARS >> The name of the former baseball commissioner who never had a Black player in the majors during his long reign is being pulled off all future
MVP plaques after more than 75 years.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis won’t be depicted on the annual awards presented by the Baseball Writers’ Association of the America, the group said. The decision came after 89% of its membership voted this week for removal.
In a story by The Associated Press in late June, former MVP winners Barry Larkin, Mike Schmidt and Terry Pendleton said they favored pulling Landis’
name because of concerns over his handling of Black players.
Larkin, the Black shortstop voted NL MVP in 1995 with Cincinnati, applauded the decision.
College football
HAWAII, BAHAMAS BOWLS CANCELED BY ESPN DUE TO PANDEMIC >> The Hawaii and Bahamas bowls were canceled by ESPN Events because of the pandemic and related travel restrictions.
The games are typically played in December and are two of 17 owned and operated by ESPN. The cancellation brings the total number of postseason major college football games still tentatively on for this season down to 39.
The California Bay Areabased RedBox Bowl has previously announced it would not be played this season.
College basketball tournaments traditionally held in Hawaii and the Bahamas have also been canceled for this season.
Media
95.7 THE GAME UNVEILS NEW MORNING LINEUP >> The ever-changing landscape of sports talk radio in the Bay Area will get another makeover this month when 95.7 The Game (KGMZ-FM) introduces a new morningshow lineup that includes longtime local sportscaster Kate Scott.
Scheduled to debut Oct. 12, the program will be led by 95.7 veterans Bonta Hill and Joe Shasky, along with Scott, a former KNBR anchor and current Pac-12 Networks broadcaster.