By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA says some players can voluntarily return to their team practice facilities starting Friday, with some very specific conditions and only in places where loc…
NFL sets protocols for reopening of team facilities
By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer The NFL has set protocols for reopening team facilities and has told the 32 teams to have them in place by May 15. In a memo sent by Commissioner Roger Goodell a…
Patchwork decisions throw wrinkle in college football plans
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer There are 130 major college football teams, spread across 41 states and competing in 10 conferences, save for a handful of independents. The goal is to hav…
How does the Big Ten play football without open campuses?
By MITCH STACY and ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writers Less than four months before the scheduled kickoff of the college football season, not one of the 14 schools in the Big Ten Conference can say for sure …
Pro Football Hall of Fame teams with Project Isaiah
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — When David Baker heard about Project Isaiah and its goal of feeding families in need during the coronavirus pandemic, there was no question what the Pro Football Hall of Fame would…
Republican-led House OKs limits on Ohio health director
By JOHN SEEWER and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican lawmakers frustrated with Ohio’s aggressive stay-at-home orders voted Wednesday in the GOP-controlled Ho…
Lake Erie sets new record as water level continues to surge
CLEVELAND (AP) — The water level in Lake Erie surpassed the record set this time last year. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday that Lake Erie’s water level rose 9 inches above the Apri…
States with few virus cases get big share of relief aid
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Alaska, Hawaii, Montana and Wyoming are not epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet these four states scored big this spring when Congress pumped out direct fed…
US infection rate rising outside New York as states open up
By NICKY FORSTER, CARLA K. JOHNSON and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press Take the New York metropolitan area’s progress against the coronavirus out of the equation and the numbers show the rest of the U.S.…
Trump tours, touts mask factory — but no mask for him
By ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Making himself Exhibit A for reopening the country, President Donald Trump visited an Arizona face mask factory Tuesd…