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Christian McCaffrey, Ezekiel Elliott, Saquon Barkley, Dalvin Cook and Alvin Kamara lead UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler’s Top 200 fantasy football player rankings for the 2020 season....Read More

Carolina Panthers All-Pro Christian McCaffrey leads UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler’s list of the Top 75 running backs for the 2020 fantasy football season....Read More

Major League Baseball has postponed Thursday’s series finale between the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners because of the coronavirus....Read More

Jayson Tatum and Marcus Smart powered the Boston Celtics to a 102-99 win over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday, putting the reigning NBA champions in a 2-0 hole in their Eastern Conference semifinal series....Read More

Men’s and women’s top seeds Novak Djokovic and Karolina Pliskova each claimed straight-set wins in their first round matches at the 2020 U.S. Open, while American teen phenom Coco Gauff lost early at the Grand Slam....Read More

Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard and his fiancee are expecting twins....Read More

Jimmy Butler exploded for 40 points to guide the Miami Heat to a 115-104 win over the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series Monday night....Read More

New Orleans Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram capped his breakout 2019-20 season by capturing the NBA’s Most Improved Player Award on Monday....Read More

Former Georgetown men’s basketball coach John Thompson Jr., who in 1984 became the first Black coach to win a national championship, died Monday. He was 78....Read More

Dell Loy Hansen, the owner of Utah MLS, NWSL and USL teams, plans to sell the clubs after a report claimed he used racist language around team employees and made admittedly “insensitive” remarks about player protests....Read More