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At long last, the Major League Baseball season is set to begin. Four months after it was originally scheduled, opening day in the coronavirus pandemic era is almost here.

Cave Spring's Jack Cowher wins Holliday Scholarship

Roanoke Catholic grad will be inducted into Hampden-Sydney Hall of Fame.

Softball seniors had one last chance to strut their stuff Tuesday night.

The Floyd County native will compete in the Firekeepers Casino Hotel Championship in Battle Creek, Michigan.

The conference intends to schedule fall and winter sports in the spring semester.

The high school softball season was canceled back in the spring thanks to COVID-19. But this week, more than 40 seniors are getting a chance to go out in style.

McGuire led the Maroons to 168 wins in just more than eight seasons in Salem.

An estimated 15,000-20,000 spectators were at the race.

The tournament serves as a Ferrum football fundraiser while honoring the Panthers' late head coach.

The Hokie carded a final-round 69 to win the event by seven strokes.

Tatum Walsh Knocked off Julie Shinn 5 and 3

The nation's largest governing body for college sports on Thursday released its latest guidance to help member schools navigate competition during the pandemic.

The calisthenics at the first football workout might look familiar, but formations are spread out, using the yard lines as convenient markers for distancing, and everyone has his own backpack filled to provide weights for the workout.

The committee also voted to delay the beginning of fall sports until a final decision is made July 27.

18 holes of stroke play Tuesday will be followed by match play with the top 16 players in the field on Wednesday and Thursday

The former U.S. Open champion helped cut the ribbon for the new courts on Sunday.

The victory was the first by a series rookie since Chris Buescher at Pocono on Aug. 1, 2016.

UVA athletics sports medicine administered 110 tests since the players returned to Grounds on July 5, and they were processed by the UVA Health System clinical laboratory.

Defensive backs Tayvion Land and Kei’Trel (Tre) Clark have both made announcements through Twitter

The Generals’ football, men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, men’s and women’s soccer and volleyball teams will not contest a schedule or play any games in 2020.

Travel and other concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic are the reasons for the announcement.

The event returns to the Roanoke Valley for the first time since 2014.

Revenue hits from coronavirus concerns have teams worried

JJ Redick has some concerns as the NBA gets set to resume the season in Orlando.

Mahomes won the Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs last season during his first trip to the big game.

Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly says the NHL and NHL Players’ Association have agreed on protocols to resume the season but are still negotiating an extension of the collective bargaining agreement.

The event is usually attended by large crowds along New York's Coney Island boardwalk.

The announcement comes less than 24 hours after FedEx, the company with naming rights to the team’s stadium, asked the team to change its name.

The event will give 43 seniors a proper farewell while honoring a local legend in the community.