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MORE: Week 13 Power Rankings | Breaking down the 1-loss contenders Injured early in the second quarter Saturday against TCU, Mayfield returned to the game but was removed after halftime as a precaution, according to sources close to the program cited by NewsOK.com. He passed tests given to him during Saturday’s first half, at halftime and again Sunday. To avoid any appearance that he is interfering, Sooners coach Bob Stoops says he purposefully keeps a distance between himself and the concussion testing protocol....

On Monday, it came to light that the measure was being considered, with a senior Trump administration official telling Reuters that draft regulation, which has not yet been finalized, could see the policy come into place. Under the regulation, which was first reported by The New York Times on Monday, citizens and permanent residents believed to be potential carriers of the virus could be barred from entering their home country....

Fresh off of helping put together the first College Football Playoff, Alvarez has two unexpected tasks: — Find Wisconsin’s next football coach. — And coach the Badgers in their Jan. 1 Outback Bowl matchup in Tampa against Auburn. MORE: 10 Wisconsin candidates | 10 all-time greatest Badgers | SN Heisman quiz | Heisman finalists For the second time in the past three seasons, the Wisconsin AD who was the Badgers head coach from 1990 to 2005, will put on the headset, draw up some X’s and O’s and coach the team in their bowl game, ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit reported Wednesday....

“Go for it,” Bonds said in an interview with Sportico published on Friday. “The way he swings he might as well hit one a day and get past me. I don’t care. Why not?” As of Friday, Judge is sitting at 60 home runs, which leaves him one dinger behind Roger Maris’ American League record. Bonds set the all-time record for home runs in a single season when he hit 73 homers in 2001....

What do UEFA’s Champions League changes mean for fans? The former England international will make his 609th outing in the modern era of the top-flight, drawing level with exChelsea midfielder Lampard. Barry made the majority of his appearances over an 11-year spell at Aston Villa, moving onto Manchester City before joining Everton in 2014 following a successful season on loan. Ronald Koeman has made two changes from the team that drew 1-1 with Manchester United last time out, with the injured Yannick Bolasie and Tom Cleverley replaced by James McCarthy and Gerard Deulofeu....

The Sportsnet hockey reporter caused a stir when he posted a video in his “31 Thoughts” column that showed a conversation between Washington coach Barry Trotz and his Columbus counterpart, John Tortorella, in the moments after the Capitals had clinched their first-round series over the Blue Jackets. Friedman wrote that there are “questions” about Trotz’s future in Washington, and he later explained on air that he thought the Capitals coach said “I’m gone, I’m gone, I’m not coming back, I’m gone,” while shaking Tortorella’s hand....

Man City put off Mbappe move The FA alleged that Barton, who has also been fined £30,000, made 1,260 bets over a 10-year period and has now hit the 34-year-old with a lengthy ban following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing. Burnley confirmed via their official website that Barton, who re-joined the Clarets on a short-term deal in January, plans to appeal the length of his ban. An FA statement read: “Joey Barton has been suspended from football and all football activity for 18 months with immediate effect after he admitted an FA misconduct charge in relation to betting....

ESPN has parted ways with Major League Baseball analyst John Kruk. The former Phillies star has been with ESPN since 2004. The news was first broken by Ryan Glasspiegel of The Big Lead . MORE: ESPN’s ‘Sunday Countdown’ rookies brought it in Week 4 “ESPN and John Kruk have mutually agreed to end our relationship at this time," ESPN said in a statement. “We’re thankful to John for his memorable contributions to our baseball coverage over the years — a run which included roles on our signature MLB franchises ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ and ‘Baseball Tonight....

The committee charged with evaluating 10 Hall of Fame finalists from baseball’s pre-integration era did not elect anyone for the Class of 2016, Hall chairman Jane Forbes Clark announced Monday. MORE: Classic Sporting News covers of Hall of Famers Doc Adams, a pioneer from the 19th century who helped establish the games equipment and create the shortstop position, came closest to making the cut. He received 10 votes from the 16-member committee, falling two short of the 12 needed for induction....

It was just another routine regular season game that would have been long forgotten by now except for one thing: On the field that day, standing behind third base, was a photographer named Charles Conlon. And through sheer luck, the 40-something Conlon took what would prove to be one of baseball’s most famous photographs. The iconic image shows Ty Cobb, the legendary Georgia Peach, kicking up a cloud of dirt as he slides hard into third base, manned by New York’s Jimmy Austin....

In 2004, when the D.C. city council agreed to build the Nationals a new yard to lure the Expos from Montreal, it insisted that it be the first major sports stadium to get the USGBC’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating. At the time that didn’t seem feasible. The points-based system was designed to limit the environmental impact of commercial office buildings, not outdoor ballparks. But by recycling 5,500 tons of construction waste, installing a state-of-the-art water-filtration system and placing the stadium close to public transportation on what used to be the site of a contaminated brownfield, the city was able to get the certification with less than a 2 percent hike in construction costs....

Men’s basketball coaches from the Atlantic Coast Conference have floated the idea of playing next spring’s NCAA tournament with all eligible Division I teams in the bracket. Teams that are academically ineligible, ineligible because of rules infractions or those teams considered “reclassifiers” will not qualify. That means, with 357 current teams and their eligibilities, only 346 teams would be eligible for the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. Only. 346. College basketball abruptly came to a halt on March 12 this year when many leagues around the country canceled their men’s and women’s conference basketball tournaments because of the sudden COVID-19 outbreak....

The 24-year-old striker, signed on loan from Chelsea in a deadline-day deal, opened the scoring in the 35th minute and made it a brace in the 62nd as Dortmund earned a 3-2 win away to Cologne on Friday. In recording a debut double, Batshuayi accomplished a feat last seen in August 2013 when Aubameyang marked his first match following a move from Saint-Etienne with a hat-trick in Dortmund’s 4-0 win over Augsburg....

It’s a good thing it didn’t–for Nokia, at least. The fortunes of the two companies have now been reversed. Under Jorma Ollila, who took over as CEO in 1992, Nokia not only turned itself around but smoked the competition. It first swept aside the United States’ Motorola–the market leader at the beginning of the 1990s–then Ericsson of Sweden, then other competitors, ending up with more than 38 percent of the market this year....

The Germany international was rumoured to be a transfer target for Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, but has demonstrated his commitment to Cologne despite their precarious position in the table. Having joined the club in 2010, Hector has renewed for a further two years, meaning he is set to stay put until the end of the 2022-23 season. “Cologne allowed me to take the path from the regional league to the German national team,” Hector told the club’s official website....

Wenger wants Mbappe at Arsenal Reports linking Bayern to Real Madrid star James have intensified, while Goretzka – who starred at the Confederations Cup for Germany – only has one year left on his contract with Schalke. But Rummenigge thinks confirming the German champions’ interest in the pair would hinder them in any transfer negotiations. He did, however, praise the international performances of Goretzka, the midfielder who has been regularly linked with a Bayern move, and stressed his side were keeping their transfer market options open....

Alaba suffered an ankle knock in Austria’s World Cup qualifying clash with Georgia and had to be withdrawn prior to half-time on Tuesday. Bayern 13/2 to win CL The length of the lay-off has not yet been determined, but it leaves head coach Carlo Ancelotti without either of his natural left-back options as Juan Bernat continues his recovery from ankle surgery. However, there is some good news for the Italian with midfielder Sebastian Rudy cleared of injury....

Between them, Bayern and Lyon boast 15 players on this year’s list. The German giant headlines the men’s list with seven players, while eight members of Lyon’s unstoppable women’s squad have been named to Goal’s annual ranking. On the men’s side, Robert Lewandowski claimed the top spot after a stellar campaign in which Bayern’s Polish striker scored 55 goals in 47 games across all competitions as the Bavarians stormed their way to a treble (Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and Champions League)....

Manchester United made Paul Pogba the most expensive player in the world during the close-season when they paid €105m to lure the Frenchman away from Juventus, breaking the previous record held by Gareth Bale following his €100m move to Real Madrid. Hoeness had felt the rise of transfer fees was bound to hit the ceiling sooner rather than later, but he now thinks new commercial opportunities make further inflation inevitable....

Bayern win shows why Arsenal not good enough for Lewandowski The Gunners came from behind at the Allianz Arena to go into the break level at 1-1 in the first leg of the round-of-16 tie, but ended the match on the wrong end of a humiliating 5-1 defeat, their second in successive seasons at the home of the Bundesliga title-holders. Robben, who opened the scoring with a trademark goal in the 11th minute, felt Arsenal’s expansive style played straight into Bayern’s hands....