(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION LA Lakers 107, Atlanta 99 Houston 136, Oklahoma City 106 Milwaukee 134, Portland 106 Charlotte 129, Miami 121 (OT) Chicago 110, New York 102 Cleveland 100, Minnesota 98 Sacramento 118, New Orleans 109 Memphis 133, San Antonio 102 Phoenix 109, Dallas 108 Detroit at Denver (Postponed)
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Montreal 6, Vancouver 2 NY Rangers 3, Pittsburgh 1 Boston 5, Washington 3 Calgary 4, Winnipeg 3 (SO) Tampa Bay 5, Nashville 2 Vegas at San Jose (Postponed)
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Texas Tech 57, Oklahoma 52 Drake 95, Illinois St. 60 Oregon at UCLA (Postponed)
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(NEW YORK) — Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson, who recently announced she is pregnant with her second child, revealed Sunday that she has tested positive for COVID-19.
Johnson, also mom to 15-month-old daughter, Drew Hazel, shared in a note posted on her Instagram stories that she had tested positive, admitting the diagnosis made her “nervous.”
Explaining more about why the positive result made her nervous, Johnson wrote on Instagram, “1: I don’t want to get my family sick. 2: I have asthma and have had it my entire life so this scares me a little extra. 3: had a very close family member fight for his life last month while battling Covid so it’s a serious topic of concern/hits home in our household.”
Johnson also wrote that her body is “just exhausted” after also spending the past two weeks caring for Drew as she battled RSV, a respiratory virus.
“So far, I have a cough, terrible sore throat and headache. Fatigue for sure but… that’s pregnancy haha,” Johnson wrote about her own symptoms.
Johnson and her husband, Andrew East, just announced their pregnancy last month.
In the announcement video shared on the couple’s YouTube page, East recalled how he tested positive for COVID-19 just days after finding out Johnson was pregnant.
“We were in this time of celebration and we wanted to tell her parents and our friends, but then I ended up having to self-isolate,” he said, calling it “not the ideal situation.”
In announcing her own COVID-19 diagnosis, Johnson said she too is isolating and shared a message for other people, telling them to “wash your hands.”
“Not looking for any kind of pitty [sic] party. Just a reminder to take care of yourself. Drink an extra water tonight and wash your hands,” she wrote.
Even now, nearly one year into the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., many questions remain about how pregnant people are impacted by COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shared data showing that pregnant people infected with COVID-19 are at an increased risk for “intensive care unit admission, invasive ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and death,” compared to nonpregnant people.
Health experts say pregnant people need to continue to remain on high alert when it comes to COVID-19 by following safety protocols, including face mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing.
(NEW YORK) — Quarterbacks Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes won’t be the only stars of Super Bowl LV.
The health care workers who have been working tirelessly to keep the COVID-19 virus at bay will be honored during the first Super Bowl game ever played during a pandemic.
Here is how the NFL is putting a spotlight on health care workers.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has invited 7,500 health care workers to attend the game, the NFL announced last month.
Only 22,000 of the nearly 66,000 seats at Raymond James Stadium, home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will be available for fans.
Most will come from hospitals and health care systems in the Tampa and central Florida area, but all 32 NFL teams will also select health care workers from their communities, according to the NFL.
All of the health care workers who will attend will have received both doses of the vaccine.
In addition to the tickets, a game day experience will be held for the health care workers, the NFL said.
“These dedicated health care workers continue to put their own lives at risk to serve others, and we owe them our ongoing gratitude,” Goodell said in a statement.
The NFL is hosting the #TikTokTailgate, a pregame event for the health care workers in attendance, which will be headlined by pop star Miley Cyrus.
Cyrus confirmed the news in several Instagram posts.
“I can’t wait to put on a show for the NFL’s honored guests before the game…. Health care workers from Tampa and around the country!” she wrote Jan. 24.
Only health care workers will be in attendance, but the event will be live-streamed, according to the NFL.
The event will also include special gusts, surprise musical performances and game day cooking segments, according to CBS, which is broadcasting the Super Bowl this year.
Suzie Dorner, a nurse manager at Tampa General Hospital, will not only be cheering for her hometown football team but will be honored on the field as well.
Dorner, who has been named as one of the three honorary Super Bowl captains, has been working in Tampa for more than eight years and has “worked selflessly, as all nurses do, to prioritize others and work endless hours” throughout the pandemic, according to the NFL. She lost two grandparents to COVID-19 as well.
Dorner was “speechless” upon hearing the news, she told Derrick Brooks, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and chair of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV host committee.
The pandemic has been “really mentally, emotionally and physically exhausting” for all health care workers, Dorner said.
“To be honored at the Super Bowl makes everything that we’ve all been through this year, it makes it a little bit more tolerable and something to celebrate everything that we’ve been through, the good and the bad things,” she is seen telling Brooks in a YouTube video posted by the NFL.
The honorary captains — Dorner, a Los Angeles educator, and a Marine Corps veteran from Pittsburgh — will take part in the coin toss ceremony before kickoff Sunday.
(NEW YORK) — With Super Bowl LV just six days away, both the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs are getting ready for the big game.
The quarterbacks of both teams spoke to ESPN recently about their upcoming matchup this Sunday.
Patrick Mahomes, 25, is hoping to lead the Chiefs to their second championship in a row, while Brady, 43, appears in his 10th Super Bowl game in the hopes of bringing the title home to Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers were last crowned NFL champions in 2002.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION L.A. Clippers 129, New York 115 Denver 128, Utah 117 Toronto 115, Orlando 102 Philadelphia 119, Indiana 110 Washington 149, Brooklyn 146 Minnesota 109, Cleveland 104 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE New Jersey 5, Buffalo 3 Florida 3, Detroit 2 Carolina 4, Dallas 3 (SO) Final Chicago 3, Columbus 1 Philadelphia 4, NY Islanders 3 (OT) St. Louis 4, Anaheim 1 Minnesota 4, Colorado 3 (OT) Edmonton 8, Ottawa 5 TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Houston 70, SMU 48 Ohio St. 79, Michigan St. 62
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