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Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins will miss the team’s first preseason game after testing positive for COVID-19. Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell announced the news Friday. Cousins won’t play in Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders due to the positive test. He’s expected to return to the Vikings next week. He has minimal COVID-19 symptoms, per O’Connell. With Cousins sidelined, the team will play both Sean Mannion and Kellen Mond. O’Connell did not announce which player would… Source link

The first MLB Field of Dreams Game in 2021 was a masterclass in nostalgia. The league figured out a new way to tug at fans’ heartstrings in their follow-up. Thursday’s Field of Dreams Game, played between the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds, opened with MLB Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. and his father, three-time All-Star Ken Griffey, playing catch in the outfield. “Hey dad, want to have a catch?” the younger Griffey said after emerging from the iconic cornfield. After a precious few moments,… Source link

Pickleball has exploded in popularity among all age groups — including a who’s-who of celebrities such as Bill Gates, Leonardo diCaprio, George Clooney, and legendary NFL quarterback Drew Brees. Brees, who has long played the game and is now a part-owner of the Mad Drops Club of Major League Pickleball, described the sport as “a combination between tennis and ping-pong. It’s a fast-paced game.” “It’s really more of a game about patience than it is about power,” Brees said on Yahoo Finance… Source link

Jerry Jones is still all in on Ezekiel Elliott. While the Cowboys running back is , and Dallas has Tony Pollard at the ready if needed, Jones said Saturday that he wants Elliott to be the “focus” of the team’s run game both in Week 1 and throughout the season. “Zeke’s gotta be our feature, and he is our feature,” the Cowboys owner said, . “We can feature him in a lot of different ways … It’s critical that we make Zeke, because he’s capable of being that, really the focus of… Source link

The video game industry is suffering from a COVID hangover even a bottle of Pedialyte and a bacon, egg, and cheese can’t fix. After explosive growth throughout the pandemic, game sales are finally plummeting back to Earth. Both Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SONY), two of the world’s leading game companies, revealed this week that their gaming divisions saw year-over-year revenue declines, as soaring inflation takes a toll on the industry. It’s not just hardware and games sales that are… Source link

A 29-year-old man is dead from injures sustained during an on-field fight over a referee’s call at an adult soccer game, according to Oxnard, California police. Per OPD, Misael Sanchez of Port Hueneme, California died on Monday, 15 days after sustaining injuries in the July 10 game. His cause of death was pending an autopsy. Per police, Sanchez was “involved in a large soccer fight that included players from both teams and spectators” that broke out on a field at Oxnard High School. The soccer… Source link

LOS ANGELES — The problem with baseball is that, too often, your eyes betray you. Or at least, you can’t see the whole story. What you’re watching on the field is barely even the tip of the iceberg in a sport defined by large sample sizes and unexpected value that has to be quantified to be understood. This renders the All-Star Game meaningless — I mean, it was anyway, and those of us who thought it was kinda cool when the outcome determined World Series home-field advantage know to… Source link

Netflix (NFLX) has struggled in recent months, prompting investors and company watchers to wonder what the streaming giant’s future looks like. That future, as it turns out, could be linked to “Exploding Kittens,” a card game about “cats and destruction.” Netflix and the card game-maker are collaborating on a TV show helmed by “King of the Hill” creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels — and it’s going to feature a multi-platform approach that’s likely to be a key to Netflix content in the… Source link

A Texas arena football league game devolved into chaos and violence that spilled into the stands on Saturday, evoking shades of the Malice at the Palace. The incident occurred at the end of an interleague game between the Texas United Football League’s Dallas Prime and the Arena Football Association’s West Texas Warbirds at Odessa’s Ector County Coliseum. Jackob Brandeburg of CBS7 shared video of the brawl that broke out between players in multiple locations along the end zone concourse. A… Source link

Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper left Saturday’s game against the San Diego Padres after getting hit in his hands with a 97 mph fastball. The Phillies later announced that he’d fractured his left thumb, and that he’ll be out indefinitely. He’ll undergo further evaluation in the coming days. “I kind of wish it hit me in the face,” Harper said, via The Associated Press. “I don’t break bones in my face. I think I can take 98 (mph) to the face, but not 97 to the thumb. Yeah, I was… Source link