(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Washington 6, Baltimore 5 Chi White Sox 7, St. Louis 2 Colorado 10, Texas 6 L.A. Dodgers 8, L.A. Angels 3 Oakland 15, San Francisco 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 8, Detroit 5 Tampa Bay 1, Toronto 0 Minnesota 4, Kansas City 2 Houston 3, Seattle 2 Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 5 N.Y. Yankees 4, Boston 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 6, N.Y. Mets 2 Atlanta 4, Miami 0 Milwaukee 6, Chicago Cubs 5 Arizona 5, San Diego 4 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (Postponed)
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS Memphis at Portland (Unnecessary)
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS NY Islanders 2, Washington 1 (OT) Dallas 5, Calgary 4 (OT) Chicago 3, Vegas 1 Philadelphia 1, Montreal 0 St. Louis 3, Vancouver 2 (OT)
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Dallas 95, Phoenix 89 Seattle 95, Connecticut 72 Chicago 92, Atlanta 67
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Los Angeles FC at Atlanta (Canceled) Seattle at Minnesota (Canceled) Miami at Portland (Canceled)
Warner Music NashvileA tune called “I Got a Truck” isn’t the first thing you’d expect from a California-born singer/songwriter with a heavy metal background.
And while Devin Dawson admits the first single from his sophomore album may be a bit of a departure, it turns out he has a lot more country cred than you might imagine.
“I’ve driven the same truck until recently when I bought a new one,” Devin explains. “But I drove this truck from California. This old lady that was a regular at the feed shop I was working at — because I was baling hay — and essentially she sold me this truck because she knew I was moving to Nashville and knew I needed something to pack my s*** in.”
“I’ve driven that truck forever, until I ran it into the ground,” he continues. “And I bought something new and I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of it. And Leah, my wife, hated it for a while because it was just stuck in the driveway.”
You’ll soon be able to check out Devin’s former ride, once the “I Got a Truck” video drops.
“We actually used it in the music video that we have coming out,” he reveals. “It was really cool to actually get to use that truck, you know, fix it up, drive it out to the location, use it in the music video.”
“There’s just little things about this song all around that are just super meaningful to me,” he says, “and it doesn’t always happen like that.”
“I Got a Truck’s” backstory is actually based on Tim McGraw‘s beginnings in Music City. Devin was inspired to write the song after the superstar gave him some advice backstage, when he was opening Tim and Faith’s Soul2Soul tour a few years ago.
(NEW YORK) — Several daily high temperature records were broken from Washington State to Texas on Saturday like in Shreveport, Louisiana, which hit its first 100-degree day of the year.
Today, we expect more of the same across the western third of the country and parts of Texas with temperatures in the triple digits.
In total, 54 million Americans are forecast to experience 100-degree heat this week and more than 100 daily high temperature records could be set through Wednesday.
Elsewhere, a Red Flag warning is in effect today across the West as abundant lightning is expected along with gusty winds as isolated thunderstorms pop up this afternoon and evening.
These conditions increase the likelihood of new fires starting and also spreading existing fires as wind gusts could reach 55 mph within thunderstorm outflow boundaries.
A flash flood watch is in effect for parts of the mid-Atlantic through this morning as the heaviest rain pushes through northern Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
The heaviest rain will continue to work its way to the coast this morning and by the afternoon things will start to wind down inland. By around 7:00 p.m. we will see drier conditions for most folks along the coastal mid-Atlantic.
New rainfall amounts today could be between 2 and 3 inches on already saturated ground. Flash Flooding is a threat from eastern Virginia through Maryland where the heaviest rain is expected to fall.
Tropical Storm Kyle was the earliest 11th Atlantic named storm on record. The previous record was Katrina in August 2005. Kyle is now a post tropical cyclone while Josephine remains a Tropical Storm. Both storms will be making their way to the East and away from the U.S. coastline. However, it looks like we have more activity brimming off the west coast of Africa and in the central Atlantic.
A tropical wave is moving toward the windward islands with a 30% chance of development over the next five days.
A second tropical wave is moving off of Africa’s west coast with a 20% chance of development in the next five days. We will be watching both waves as they move through central tropical Atlantic, by the middle to latter part of the week, where there is a more favorable environment for development.
(NEW YORK) — The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 768,000 people worldwide.
More than 21.3 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their outbreaks.
The United States is the worst-affected country in the world, with more than 5.3 million diagnosed cases and at least 169,423 deaths. Here’s how the news is developing today. All times Eastern. Please refresh this page for updates.
10:45 a.m.: 7 million tests conducted in New York state
New York state has conducted 7 million diagnostic tests for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a press release Sunday.
For the ninth straight day the percentage of positive cases in the state was below 1%. The state saw an additional 607 coronavirus cases and now has a total of 425,508 cases statewide.
Cuomo praised the “hard work of New Yorkers” for the decline in new cases.
“For more than a week, we’ve seen our positivity rate stay below 1 percent, and to date New York has done 7 million tests—these are remarkable accomplishments that New Yorkers should be proud of,” Cuomo said. “But, we must not become complacent and risk slipping backwards — everyone must remember to wear their masks, socially distance, wash their hands regularly, and stay New York Tough.”
Six deaths were recorded in the state on Saturday, increasing the New York death total to 25,250, the release stated.
3:52 a.m.: Rate of COVID cases in children ‘steadily increasing’
The CDC has issued guidance to inform pediatric healthcare providers and said that while it is unclear whether children are as susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2 compared with adults and whether they can transmit the virus as effectively as adults, recent evidence suggests that children likely have the same or higher viral loads compared with adults and that children can spread the virus effectively in households and camp settings.
“The number and rate of cases in children in the United States have been steadily increasing from March to July 2020,” the CDC’s updated guidelines read. “The true incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children is not known due to lack of widespread testing and the prioritization of testing for adults and those with severe illness. Hospitalization rates in children are significantly lower than hospitalization rates in adults with COVID-19, suggesting that children may have less severe illness from COVID-19 compared to adults.”
“While children infected with SARS-CoV-2 are less likely to develop severe illness compared with adults, children are still at risk of developing severe illness and complications from COVID-19,” the statement continued. “Recent COVID-19 hospitalization surveillance data shows that the rate of hospitalization among children is low (8.0 per 100,000 population) compared with that in adults (164.5 per 100,000 population), but hospitalization rates in children are increasing.
The CDC also said that while children do have lower rates of mechanical ventilation and death than adults, on in three children who are hospitalized with COVID-19 complications in the United States were admitted to the intensive care unit — the same rate for adults.
3:04 a.m.: Off-campus sorority house quarantined after 23 test positive for COVID-19, OSU says
Oklahoma State University officials announced Saturday that 23 people in an off-campus sorority house have tested positive for COVID-19.
According to a news release, Oklahoma State University officials learned Friday night of 23 positive coronavirus cases at the university’s Pi Beta Phi chapter, an off-campus sorority house. The release states rapid antigen testing was performed at an off-campus health care facility.
“Due to the nature of this situation, the entire chapter house is in isolation or quarantine and will be prohibited from leaving the facility,” the news release states. “One member of the sorority who lives elsewhere is among those who tested positive and will also remain in isolation.”
Everyone involved is being monitored by Oklahoma State University and Payne County Health Department officials, and the release states contact tracing is being conducted to further protect the campus community.
University officials said the services of a third-party contractor have been enlisted to disinfect the facility and will do so again after the two-week isolation and quarantine period. 12:11 a.m.: Georgia governor issues new order to let some cities impose mask mandates
Georgia governor Brian Kemp issued a new order which renews existing restrictions for gatherings, sheltering in place, and businesses.
He said that local education leaders will continue to have full authority on how best to educate students and keep them safe in school.
“In late July, I asked Georgians to do ‘Four Things for Four Weeks’ to stop COVID-19,” Kemp said in a statement issued on Saturday. Without a mandate, our citizens answered the call, and we are making progress. In Georgia, our statewide case numbers have dropped 22% over the last two weeks, and daily hospitalizations have decreased by 7% in the last seven days. We are on average testing over 31,000 Georgians daily at 180 SPOCs while maintaining a low rate of transmission. The positivity rate is on the decline, and the mortality rate continues to fall.”
Kemp continued: “While encouraged by the data, we cannot grow complacent. This Executive Order extends the shelter in place order for the medically fragile, continues the ban on large gatherings, and maintains health and safety protocols for Georgia businesses. This order also protects Georgia businesses from government overreach by restricting the application and enforcement of local masking requirements to public property. While I support local control, it must be properly balanced with property rights and personal freedoms. As always, we encourage citizens to wear masks, watch their distance, wash hands, and continue to follow the guidance provided in the Executive Order. Together, we will protect the lives, livelihoods, and personal freedoms of all Georgians.”
ABC News’ Ahmad Hemingway and Joshua Hoyos contributed to this report.
Roberto Micheli/iStock(NEW YORK) – This past week, officials in five of the nation’s biggest college football conferences, often referred to as the Power Five, made decisions that resulted in some of the country’s elite college football programs cancelling their fall seasons.
Officials cited health concerns, specifically, the long term effects COVID-19 could have on the hearts of young athletes.
University of Iowa head football coach Kirk Ferentz expressed his disappointment, saying, “I think our players… this is what they live for. And when you play football, it’s such a small window. So it’s very disappointing. It’s very emotional.”
Officials in other Power Five conferences took different approaches. The Atlantic Coast Conference, or the ACC, along with the Southeastern Conference, also known as the SEC, indicated they will stay the course for now. The Big 12 released a revised football schedule this week.
The decisions from the Big 10 and PAC-12 were historic. The Big 10 has not missed a season since its inception in 1896, playing through the Spanish flu pandemic and two World Wars.
The absence of college football this year portends major economic fallout. According to ESPN, cancelling an entire college football season for Power Five schools could result in billions of dollars of revenue lost, with each school seeing an average loss of $62 million in football revenue alone.
Those estimates are conservative, excluding potential losses in areas such as corporate partnerships, conference distributions, and media revenue.
For local communities like Ann Arbor, Michigan and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, whose names are synonymous with the universities and college football programs they host, the economic impact could be devastating.
City Councilmember Emmanuel Remy is the Chair of Economic Development in Columbus, Ohio, home to the Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big 10. He told ABC News’ “Perspective” podcast that he is concerned for local businesses in the region.
“It’s devastating for those campus bars and restaurants and retailers that rely on game day revenue,” Remy explains. “Some estimate that up to 50 percent of their annual revenues come from game days.”
A cancelled season, Remy believes, will have ramifications on the local economy:
“I think it’d be unrealistic not to think that there could be closures as a result of missing out on the season.”
Dante Lucchesi helps run a local business in State College, Pennsylvania, home to the Penn State Nittany Lions, another Big 10 school. As director of operations at Champs Sports Grill, a bar and eatery near campus, he calls the cancellation of the fall football season a “complete disaster,” though not surprising:
“We really base our year upon probably about ten weekends. Seven of them are football weekends in the fall. Another is a football weekend and it’s in the spring. So taking that away from us really, really, really hurts… We weren’t surprised, but it doesn’t mean we’re any less devastated.”
Ronald Filippelli is State College’s mayor. He told “Perspective” that while Penn State football generates huge revenue, he is focused on combatting the devastating economic toll the coronavirus has taken on the town:
“I think like many others I thought they would play without fans… The fans aren’t here. They’re the ones who patronize the local businesses. The issue of whether or not you play, in my mind, doesn’t really mean that there’s going to be a different economic impact… Think about the impact on municipalities like State College. We’ve lost a tremendous amount of money as a result of the pandemic. For example, our parking revenues are down practically a million dollars.”
Filippelli believes a coronavirus relief bill would help State College make up for lost revenue:
“In that, there’s money for municipalities like us to help us cover the costs of the pandemic… we need that money.”
Not every business is likely to survive the cancellation of the fall football season. Business operators like Lucchesi hope college sports towns can stave off the coronavirus and survive until football returns in six months to a year’s time:
“Penn State is resilient. Penn State will bounce back. State College will bounce back. Champs will bounce back.”
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