CLEVELAND – Chicago White Sox manager Rick Renteria woke up Monday with “a slight cough and a stuffy nose” and will stay away from the team pending the results of medical tests. Bench coach Joe McEwing will manage the White Sox until the team learns more about Renteria’s condition. Monday’s …
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PHILADELPHIA – Anthony Santella, a public health scientist and health services researcher specializing in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, recalled his reaction upon learning of organized sports plans to return to action. “I thought, ‘We are moving too fast,'” Dr. Santella, who teaches at Hofstra University, said in …
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Major League Baseball cardboard commissioner Rob Manfred has alienated his players, his union, and his lifelong fans, making it always unlikely that he would make peace with a virus. Manfred could be smart. He could work hard. You can surely speak intelligently on many baseball-related topics for hours. Well, many …
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1:15 pm ET MLB InsidersESPN Major League Baseball is seeing its first coronavirus cancellations since the 2020 season restart. A COVID-19 outbreak spread throughout the Miami Marlins clubhouse, bringing the total number of cases in the past few days to at least 13, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jesse …
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Two Monday night MLB games were postponed due to a coronavirus outbreak among the Miami Marlins. The Marlins ‘home opener against the Baltimore Orioles is off, as is the Philadelphia Phillies’ home game against the New York Yankees. Miami just completed a series in Philadelphia, and seven more players and …
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