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In Reality Milwaukee Brewers Making The Playoffs Will Just Be For Show

KENNETH WATKINS

Sep 22, 2020

The Milwaukee Brewers still has a chance to make the playoffs, but if they do it will mostly be for show......

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Maya Moore now wed, to wrongfully jailed man she helped free

NewsPlexus Media

Sep 17, 2020

Basketball star Maya Moore has married Jonathan Irons, the Missouri man she helped work to free from prison after a 22-year-old wrongful conviction. Moore and Irons appeared together on ABC's “Good Morning America” on Wednesday to discuss their social justice efforts — and their relationship. Moore revealed that the two married this year, shortly after Irons was released on July 1.

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With Big Ten reversal, Trump aims to score in battlegrounds

NewsPlexus Media

Sep 17, 2020

President Donald Trump was quick to spike the ball in celebration when the Big Ten announced the return of fall football at colleges clustered in some of the Midwest battleground states critical to his reelection effort, declaring, "I'm the one who got football back." But his efforts to reverse last month's decision to postpone fall sports in the conference because of the novel coronavirus were far from the only factor that led officials to change course.

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Young protesters force Nepal to better manage virus crisis

NewsPlexus Media

Sep 11, 2020

On a sunny June day in Nepal, hundreds of young people in face masks stood a meter apart behind the barbed-wire barricades and rows of riot police guarding the prime minister's residence, shouting slogans demanding a better government response to the coronavirus pandemic. In a rare show of young people humbling a powerful government to action in Asia, they got one. But not before hundreds of protesters were doused with water cannons, some beaten with police batons and others detained. A charismatic young leader nearly died on hunger strike.

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Chiefs nix headdresses, war paint to start NFL season

NewsPlexus Media

Sep 11, 2020

The roughly 17,000 fans of the Kansas City Chiefs who filed into Arrowhead Stadium for a masked and socially distanced start to the NFL season Thursday found themselves thrust into the middle of the nationwide discussion about social injustice. The Super Bowl champions had already prohibited fans from wearing headdresses or war paint amid a push for more cultural sensitivity. And along with the NFL, the Chiefs had planned a series of videos and other on-field demonstrations in the lead-up to the NFL season that were designed to highlight systemic racism and social injustice.

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Smoke from nearby wildfires creates eerie baseball scene

NewsPlexus Media

Sep 10, 2020

The Oakland Coliseum lights shone brightly for miles through a sunless, smoky sky in the middle of the afternoon — hours before they usually would be on for a night baseball game. By mid-morning across San Francisco Bay, the Giants’ Oracle Park resembled a black-and-orange horror scene. A number of Northern California wildfires sent a thick, sometimes orange-glowing haze over the area Wednesday that left the Bay Area in an eerie darkness all day. The sun was blocked by the smoke.

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Smoke from nearby wildfires creates eerie baseball scene

NewsPlexus Media

Sep 10, 2020

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Gamblers factoring virus into their football bets this fall

NewsPlexus Media

Sep 10, 2020

There's a new factor in play for gamblers looking to bet on football this fall: In addition to point spreads, home-field advantage (or this year, the lack thereof) and the weather, bettors are taking the coronavirus into account before plunking down their cash. In a year in which the pandemic has upended every major sport, the arrival of NFL and college football brings unique challenges. In stadiums without fans, does a home-field advantage even exist? And if not, is it worth laying three points for?

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Human rights groups ask IOC to move Olympics from China

NewsPlexus Media

Sep 10, 2020

China's repression in Tibet, the status of the exiled Dalai Lama and its treatment of ethnic minorities spurred violent protests ahead of Beijing's 2008 Olympics. It could happen again. Beijing is to host the 2022 Winter Olympics with rumblings of a boycott and calls to move the games because of alleged human rights violations.