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The Memphis Tigers will be allowed more than double their home audience to nearly 12,000 spectators in the stands at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium starting with their October 17 game against UCF.
On Tuesday, he announced the move after Shelby County Department of Health eased restrictions that require 12 feet among enthusiasts and 6 feet.
Athletic director Laird Veatch said he was looking to have more enthusiasts available for a vital game, a construction imaginable as enthusiasts followed the protection protocols during the last game of the Tigers’ house.
Memphis fell from the AP Top 25 after a loss to SMU last week and ended in the Tigers’ first game since their first game on September 5. The Tigers had to postpone a game with Houston until December and cancel a game with UT-San Antonio due to tests and positive coronavirus contacts. Memphis recently fired 19 other people in the sports department, with scheduled free time until the end of the existing fiscal year.
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The Cincinnati Bengals will be allowed to double their audience to 12,000 for all six games at Paul Brown Stadium.
The state of Ohio on Tuesday allowed the team to increase the limit after last Sunday’s maximum crowd of more than 6,000 showed “healthy and safe” behavior. Social estinement and facial politics will be necessary.
The Bengals receive the Cleveland Browns on October 25. The first home game at the stadium on September 13 without fans.
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The Minnesota Vikings will play at least one more game at home without fans and tickets will not be sold when they receive the Atlanta Falcons on October 18, as was the case with the team’s first two games at U. S. Bank Stadium last month.
The Vikings announced Tuesday that they will again have a maximum circle of 250 family members of the team’s workers’ corps for the game to further verify game day protocols in anticipation of game-goers later in the season.
They have worked with the state and municipal government to allow a limited number of enthusiasts, however, existing COVID-19 infection rates in Minnesota and corresponding national rules for indoor meetings will keep the doors closed for the time being.
The next to welcome Viking enthusiasts would be the Detroit game on November 8.
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Iowa supporter Djimon Colbert and defensive lineman Taajhir McCall have to withdraw from the 2020 football season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Colbert finished thirteen games last season and recorded 61 tackles, one interception and four break passes. McCall didn’t play in the first year last year.
The Hawkeyes open on October 24 in Purdue.
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Charlotte Thomas retired from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after her youngest daughter was tested for coronavirus.
Thomas gave up because she is in close contact with the caddie and will start about 40 out of 14 days. Thomas, 27, a member of the team he was scheduled to play will begin Thursday at Aronimink Golf Club, just outside the gates of Newtown Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. .
Thomas, a rookie in 2019, tied for 54th in the ShopRite LPGA Classic last weekend and 35th in the Cambia Portland Classic last month, but did not pass the cut at Ana Inspiration, the last women’s primary.
Isi Gabsa is now in the box of the PGA Women’s Championship and Paula Challenge is the first substitute.
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Serie A president Paolo Dal Pino was tested for the coronavirus.
The league says Dal Pino’s control conducted on Monday and added that the symptomatic and remote president at home.
Series A’s handling of the virus has been the highlight after Napoli refused a Juventus match on Sunday following positive testing from two of his players.
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