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Florida governor Ron DeSantis became the second state executive in the United States to announce that his state is "open for sports" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday. https://twitter.com/AndySlater/status/1260627065004490752?s=20 In a state government session, DeSantis adamantly defended his opinion that it is safe for sports teams to return to practicing and potentially playing games, effective immediately. While it remains...

The top German professional soccer league is set to become the first major sports competition to return as it hosts eight games over the weekend behind closed doors, six of which will take place on Saturday. https://twitter.com/Bundesliga_EN/status/1259133523752923136?s=20 With the exception of the Belarusian Premier League, which has taken place without interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bundesliga will become the first...

Major League Baseball owners have given their approval to the league's proposal for the 2020 season according to reports on Monday. This is the first step in a process that could see baseball return by the month of July. https://twitter.com/AP_Sports/status/1259915596738805765?s=20 The league's proposal includes starting the season in early July after a "training" period in June that will take place at...

Spain's domestic football league has returned to training over two months after the league was postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak as teams prepare for a proposed June return date to action. https://twitter.com/FCBarcelona/status/1259775322834309121?s=20 Last week, hundreds of players and staff members from Spain's first and second division clubs underwent coronavirus testing as a prerequisite to return to training. Five players...

FIFA, the international governing body of association football, has introduced a new change in the game's rules that will allow for teams to stay fresh during the ramped-up schedules that will become common after leagues get back underway due to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://twitter.com/fifamedia/status/1258736843048120321?s=20 FIFA has announced that, until the end of the calendar year 2020, teams will be allowed to...

Andy Dalton might have only signed a one-year contract with Dallas in early May, but he's convinced that his stay in Dallas is set to put him in a position to finish his career strong after being released by the Cincinnati Bengals earlier in the offseason. https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1256752962845569026?s=20 Dalton, who was let go by the Bengals after his former team selected LSU...

Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois came out with a controversial take on the 2019-20 La Liga season in the case that play isn't able to be resumed and the season isn't completed. https://twitter.com/ESPNFC/status/1257691160216244226?s=20 Courtois, whose Real Madrid side stands two points behind FC Barcelona in the table after 27 matches, doesn't see the Blaugrana as the league's best team despite their...

Less than a week after being released from the team that he quarterbacked for nearly a decade, Andy Dalton found a new NFL home after inking a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys. https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1256776433126400000?s=20 The Texas native, who spent nine years as the starting quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals, will join the Cowboys on a deal that will have him serve...

The Chicago Bears have decided to decline their fifth-year option for quarterback Mitchell Trubisky for the 2021 season, meaning that their former first round draft pick is set to become a free agent after the upcoming season. https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1256670150536892416?s=20 Trubisky was drafted with the second overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft out of the University of North Carolina, a decision that...

On the heels of the French government's announcement that professional sporting events would not return the beginning of September, the country's Ligue 1 soccer league was forced to cancel the rest of its season. On Thursday, news leaked that Paris Saint-Germain, which held a twelve-point lead over second-place Marseille in the standings before the season was called off, will officially...