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Tennessee Titans place kicker Tucker McCann practices during NFL football training camp Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (George Walker IV/The Tennessean via AP, Pool)

FANTASY PLAYS: Be flexible when choosing defenses, kickers

By DAVIS MATTEK - Associated Press

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes runs during an NFL football training camp practice Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

FANTASY PLAYS: Avoiding mistakes key at QB spot

By DAVIS MATTEK - Associated Press

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) and tight end Travis Kelce (87) run during an NFL football training camp Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020, at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. The Chiefs opened the stadium to 2,000 season ticket holders to watch practice as the team plans to open the regular season with a reduced capacity of approximately 22 percent or normal. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

FANTASY PLAYS: Kelce, Kittle lead top tight ends for drafts

By DAVIS MATTEK - Associated Press

Washington head coach Ron Rivera, center, talks to his team during practice at the team's NFL football training facility, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in Ashburn, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Rivera wants ‘business as usual’ while battling skin cancer

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press

In this Nov. 16, 2019, photo, a packed crowd looks on as Washington State mascot Butch T. Cougar performs during an NCAA college football game between Washington State and Stanford in Pullman, Wash. The athletes weren't the only ones impacted when Washington State's fall football season was canceled by the coronavirus pandemic. Merchants in tiny Pullman, who depend on big football crowds, say they are losing a major chunk of their annual income. Pullman, the most remote outpost in the PAC-12, has only 34,000 residents and many businesses in town depend on visitors attracted by football games, graduation and other special events. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)

Loss of college football games a blow for Pullman businesses

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS - Associated Press

West Virginia high school games to limit attendance

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University of Iowa football players parents protest outside Big Ten headquarters in Rosemont, Ill., Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Parents of Big Ten football players, upset over the process that led to the postponement of the season until spring, held a protest near the conference's Chicago-area headquarters Friday while an attorney in Nebraska demanded commissioner Kevin Warren turn over material illustrating how the decision was made. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune via AP) **FILE**

Big Ten parents at protest want details on no-play decision

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Marilyn Hesler and Syracuse University, a student wearing a mask wheels her belongings up a ramp to move into her dorm, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020, at Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y. (Marilyn Hesler/Syracuse University via AP)

Syracuse confident but wary as football season nears

By JOHN KEKIS - Associated Press

A ball catcher wearing plastic gloves amid the new coronavirus pandemic, disinfects the ball during a local championship soccer match between Nacional and Penarol in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

The Latest: Virus cluster at East Carolina pauses football

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Herriman players celebrate as they take the field for a high school football game against Davis, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, in Herriman, Utah. Utah is among the states going forward with high school football this fall despite concerns about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that led other states and many college football conferences to postpone games in hopes of instead playing in the spring. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Alabama restarts prep football in test of virus precautions

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

Washington quarterback Alex Smith, right, throws with quarterback Dwayne Haskins Jr., standing nearby, during practice at the team's NFL football training facility, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in Ashburn, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Smith inches closer to comeback 21 months since breaking leg

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2019, file photo, Minnesota Vikings chief operating officer Kevin Warren talks to reporters after being named Big Ten Conference Commissioner during a news conference in Rosemont, Ill. After the Power Five conference commissioners met Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, players took to social media to urge leaders to let them play.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Big Ten’s Warren, under fire, elaborates on virus concerns

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

Gates leading into Memorial Stadium are padlocked, in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. The Big Ten won't play football this fall because of concerns about COVID-19, becoming the first of college sports' power conferences to yield to the pandemic. The move was announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) **FILE**

NCAA moves toward free year of eligibility for fall athletes

By RALPH D. RUSSO - Associated Press

FILE — In this file photo from July 6, 2020, Pine-Richland High School quarterback Cole Spencer, right, and teammates stretch during their first practice of the season, at Richland Elementary in Pine-Richland Township near Warrendale, Pa. The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) governing body for Pennsylvania interscholastic sports signaled again Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, that it's seriously considering moving ahead with the fall season despite the governor's recommendation that all youth athletics be canceled until 2021. (Steph Chambers/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, File)

The Latest: Auburn to limit attendance for early home games

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Missouri quarterback Shawn Robinson throws during an NCAA college football practice Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in Columbia, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

NCAA recommends free year of eligibility for fall athletes

By Ralph D. Russo - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, file photo, Minnesota head coach P. J. Fleck looks on during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Rutgers, in Piscataway, N.J. The coronavirus outbreak and the Big Ten's cancellation of fall football stood to hurt Minnesota as much as any team, with the Gophers finishing 10th in the 2019 postseason Associated Press poll and most of their offense coming back. (AP Photo/Sarah Stier, File)

Fleck, Gophers dismiss momentum loss: ‘Kind of make-believe’

By DAVE CAMPBELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 19, 2019, file photo, West Virginia University Director of Athletics Shane Lyons is shown at a press conference in Morgantown, W.Va. Whether college football players play a lot in the fall, a little in the spring or not all over the next 10 moths, some athletic administrators want to give them a mulligan on the 2020-21 season. Because of the uncertainty and so many variables, West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons, who is part of the NCAA DI Council, would like to allow athletes in all fall sports to get an extra year of eligibility and competition, regardless of how much they play and when. (Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP, File)

Mulligan: Extra year of NCAA eligibility for fall athletes?

By RALPH D. RUSSO - Associated Press

FILE— In this file photo from April 15, 2020, Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, left, and Gov. Mike DeWine, walk into their daily coronavirus news conference at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Husted, a former University of Dayton football player, has been advocating that fall high school sports proceed during the coronavirus pandemic. He tweeted Aug. 10 that good results can't be expected when sports are taken away from young people. Husted's comments come as Gov. DeWine is expected to announce his plans for sports on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

DeWine allows high school sports to continue amid pandemic

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press

Auburn coach Gus Malzahn talks to players during the first team meeting of the season for the NCAA college football team, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Todd Van Emst via AP)

Football at any cost is much to high a price

By Thom Loverro

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby attends an NFL football training camp practice Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Henderson. (AP Photo/John Locher, Pool)

Raiders’ Maxx Crosby back to work after stint on COVID list

By JOSH DUBOW - Associated Press