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Australian Rugby League - the NRL - planning to restart 28 May. Australia has not had many CV cases.

You still have the Massacre in Massachusetts, the Hoosegow in Glasgow, the Beatdown in Cowtown and the Street Brawl in Montreal to look forward to.

Not quite live but.....for basketball fans the NBA League Pass is now offering a similar deal to Baseball - ie 30 Days Free with every game from the last two seasons. https://watch.nba.com

Spoliers!

Let’s hope they keep this up: would hate to think this was a one game flash-in-the-pan leading only to an embarrassing flop in the first knock-out round. Meanwhile, have completed Day 1 of the 2018 MLB Season - on to day 2!

Guess which!

Uruguay 1986 = Biggest gang of diving, cheating, fouling bastards in the history of World football.

I disagree. The Commonwealths are a big thing for the small African & Carib nations who have intense local rivalries. Also a source of great pride for the small nations that make up the UK like the Isle of Man, Jersey etc. Even large nations like India still love the chance to beat up on England at hockey, archery, shooting etc. And Australia / New Zealand / England is still one of the greatest rivalries in World Sport in many events. People outside the UK generally do not understand how intense & how alive our little historic internal sporting battles still are, especially in areas where outsiders see absolutely no difference - like small villages only about four miles apart, or neighbouring islands with populations of about 500 each, or two towns whose regional accents differ only by a single vowel sound.

Well, that post hasn’t aged well.

Eh? Parade of Athletes is the only good part! It’s the recreation of the Sun-God rituals of the ancient Rabatababa people that is always boring!

Just went into YouTube; all the cool kids are watching as-live volleyball repeats from two years ago.

The Worlds really meant something when it was every four years, and in the era of Olympic boycotts. Now....well I guess it keeps lots of the smaller federations afloat with TV money.

Paralympics also set. The Paralympic Games, originally due to start on 25 August, 2020, will now take place between 24 August and 5 September, 2021

Everyone knows that there are only two occasions in their lives when ladies are obliged to be truthful about their age. Their twenty-first birthday Pensionable age In every other circumstance we as men are obliged to accept them at their word, no matter how hard it is to keep from bursting into laughter. Seriously though, pretty sure @Olympian1010 is correct on this, would advise you to check ASAP.

I’m told you can get coverage of Belarussian football from many online betting sites. Snag is I think you have to put money into the account, though.

Got this season’s Telemark World Cup ahead of me, currently a bit of Ski Cross from a few weeks back.

Turned out to be a cracker, would recommend.

Cool, did not realise you could use that!

That’s completely the wrong way to do it & will lead to nothing but woe & confusion. First of all, go to the Settings Menu & Turn Hide Scores to On. No-one bothers with pre-season, so Game 1 is the Los Angeles Angels at the Oakland Athletics, 29 March 2018. That’s where you start from. . Game 2 - Cubs @ Marlins, Game 3 Cardinals @ Mets etc etc. Recap = few minutes of highlights with commentary. Condensed = 20-30 mins of all relevant bits, no commentary. Home or Away = full game presentation including ad breaks. Unless you are severely autistic, you will want to use the Fast Forward key quite often here. The winner is the person who gets furthest into the season before real sport starts again.

The Good News - Seemingly there are plans for at least some Minor League Baseball to start! The Bad News - Opening day is 9 April!

Introduced a new word to the English language: the Panenka. (The other Czech words in English are Pils, Pistol, Bren & Robot)

Baseball also, the whole of the 2018 & 2019 seasons https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/subscribe?affiliateId=mlbMENU

If anything I think most modern athletes are over-trained rather than under-trained. There’s a lot of slack.

The last two internationally-broadcast events succumb due to internal transport bans in Oz. Australian Rugby League - NRL https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/03/23/nrl-suspends-season/ Australian soccer. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/soccer-mission-impossible%3A-australia-suspends-a-league-2020-03-23

Back in 1986 Czechoslovakia the biggest prize on offer was a lifetime supply of toilet paper, so they fought like gladiators.