NEW YORK (AP) – The NHL is pushing back the possibility of resuming its season for several weeks, if not a month or more. The league and NHL Players’ Association told players Monday they can go home — even out of North America — and must self-isolate through March 27 while the season is on…
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LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak’s affect on sports around the globe (all times local): ___ 11:55 a.m. Several college basketball conference tournaments have been canceled moments before tipoff, putting the NCAA Tournament at risk. The Big Ten, Big 12 and the SEC tournaments announced they were off, and other conferences were…
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MIAMI (AP) — The NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer are all weighing plans to restrict access to locker rooms as a precaution to protect players from exposure to the coronavirus, as concern over the situation continued escalating Saturday. Further, the NBA has told its teams that it has until Tuesday to…
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TAMPA BAY, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – The Tampa Bay Lightning were seemingly in control of Thursday night’s matchup with the Chicago Blackhawks as they took a 2-0 lead to the locker room at the end of the second period. They had outshot Chicago 27-17 to that point, but failed to convert four power play opportunities.…
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TAMPA BAY, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – The Bolts returned home and headed into their match up versus the Oilers down five guys, four of them primitive starters. In the rematch against the Penguins in Philadelphia, Kucherov and Cirelli suffered lower body injuries, adding them to the out roster alongside Stamkos, McDonagh, and Rutta. With the…
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TAMPA BAY, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – Thursday night’s game presented another solid effort that had an unfortunate ending for the Lightning at Amalie Arena. Coach Cooper made an agreeable comment in the post-game press conference, “we should have won that game.” The Dallas Stars opened up the first period appearing to control the game, scoring…
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TAMPA BAY, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – The Tampa Bay Lightning won for the third time in their last four games and center Steven Stamkos continued his hot streak as the Lightning took down the Boston Bruins, 3-2, at Amalie Arena in Tampa on Thursday evening. Stamkos has been playing at a torrid pace, scoring 6…
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TAMPA BAY, Fla. (FNN SPORTS) – The second meeting of the season between the Rangers and the Lightning takes place this Thursday at Amalie Arena in hopes of better results and less injuries. The first matchup took place in New York when the Bolts hit the road for their second road trip, but the game…
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