Thursday, March 26, 2020

Where do Olympic Qualifiers Stand?
Baseball: Four of six spots have been filled. The Americas qualifier is Date TBD, while the Final qualifier has been penciled in for June 17th through the 21st 

Basketball: The women's twelve-team field is complete. The twelve-team men's field still has six open spots. The final qualifier tournaments are penciled in for June 

Field Hockey: Round-robin pools have already been set for the men's and women's tournaments

Indoor Volleyball: Round-robin pools have already been set for the men's and women's tournaments

Softball: The six-team field is set 

Table Tennis: The sixteen-team fields are set for the men's and women's team competitions. The sixteen-team mixed doubles field still has nine empty slots, with qualifying competition TBD

Taekwondo: All men's and women's weight classes have either eleven or twelve spots filled out of sixteen. The Asia and Europe qualifiers are Date TBD 

Water Polo: The men's twelve-team field has three empty slots (final qualifier to start May 31st), while the ten-team women's field has two empty slots (final qualifier to start May 17th)  


Men's College Basketball Recruits/Transfers 
Recruiting
Reese Dixon-Waters (****) has committed to Southern Cal

Grad Transfers
Patrick Tape will head to Duke from Columbia 


Boxing
Date TBD, but the featherweight division could have a unification fight sometime between IBF titleholder Josh Warrington and WBA titleholder Xu Can 

Japan is looking at May 2nd as when boxing cards can resume

A women's junior middleweight title fight between Claressa Shields and Marie-Eve Dicaire originally scheduled for May 9th has been postponed 

Fury-Wilder 3 has a penciled-in date of October 3rd. It was originally scheduled for July 18th but that date was scrapped 


NHL News
In addition to extending the self-quarantine time through April 4th, the NHL has also asked teams for home dates for games in August 


NFL News
Commissioner Roger Goodell has told teams to close team facilities until at least April 8th 


Summer Olympics
After postponing the Tokyo games to next year, the IOC is looking at the potential dates of July and August 


Ultimate Fighting Championship
Journey Newsom's 38-second knockout win at UFC 247 last month has been overturned to a no-contest 


NBA Draft Declarees 
Tre Jones (Duke)
Elijah Hughes (Syracuse)
Anthony Edwards (Georgia)
*New from Previous Post 
Feron Hunt (SMU)
Kenyon Martin Jr. (IMG Academy)
Tyrese Haliburton (Iowa State)
Onyeka Okongwu (Southern Cal) 
Obi Toppin (Dayton)
Aaron Nesmith (Vanderbilt)

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