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Red Sox starter Chris Sale had Tommy John surgery on his left elbow on Monday, his 31st birthday, and the team said it was successful. The procedure was performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache at the Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles. Sale is expected to miss 14-15 months, which would bring him back in the middle of the 2021 season. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260652 https://ift.tt/2xyzhVK

College Basketball export Jon Rothstein explains how the amended NBA Draft process because of Coronavirus could end up helping some teams. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260652 https://ift.tt/2Jt2UdY

Lionel Messi confirmed on Monday that Barcelona's players will take a 70 per cent pay cut and make financial contributions to ensure the club's other employees are paid in full during the state of alarm in Spain. In a lengthy message posted on his Instagram account, Messi also took another swipe at the Barca board, led by president Josep Maria Bartomeu, whom he accused of undermining the players during recent negotiations. "For our part, the time has come to announce that, as well as the reduction of 70 per cent of our salary during the State of Alarm, we will also make contributions so the club's employees can collect 100 per cent of their salary while this situation lasts," Messi wrote. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260652 https://ift.tt/2xCwnzu

As Major League Baseball and the players' union contemplate various ways to create a schedule for whenever the coronavirus pandemic subsides, Cincinnati Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart raised a concern that is surely shared by others around the sport: Could trying to cram in games, and maybe extend the season into late November or December, lead to injuries? "The player safety piece is a big thing," Barnhart, a union representative, said Monday on a conference call with reporters. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260652 https://ift.tt/2WQLIqC

Michigan Wolverines basketball forward Isaiah Livers was always planning on testing the NBA waters after his junior year from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260652 https://ift.tt/3dIsSrt

Barcelona, for example, will be able to call on Luis Suarez, who was supposed to be out for the rest of the campaign after knee surgery. Real Madrid should now be able to count on Eden Hazard after his ankle surgery in Texas in early March. In the Premier League, Tottenham would have been without Harry Kane, Heung Min Son and Steven Bergwijn for the closing stages of the campaign, but now their strike force will be boosted for the remaining nine games (if those nine games are played, of course). from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260652 https://ift.tt/3bzTXvl

A burst of fresh data on the prevalence of “silent,” or asymptomatic, carriers of the 2019 novel coronavirus points to the looming danger of ending America’s national shutdown early.Classified Chinese government data suggest “silent carriers” could make up at least one-third of the country’s positive cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post recently reported. Approximately 43,000 people in China who had tested positive for COVID-19 last month had no immediate symptoms. And those cases were not included in the official national tally of confirmed cases, which had hit 80,000 at the end of February, the paper said.Last week, China reported no new local infections for the first time since the outbreak started in December. And after weeks of lockdown, the city of Wuhan—where the global pandemic originated—said on Tuesday that public transportation was reopening and that residents would be allowed to leave the city itself starting on April 8.But as extensive ...