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Peter Hamby Interviews Dr. Anthony Fauci | Good Luck America | Snap Originals — Peter Hamby, host of Good Luck America, interviews Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH, and member of President Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci promotes fan-free return for sports — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert and one of the faces of the United States' fight against the coronavirus, says the only way professional sports will happen this summer is by holding events without fans in attendance and by keeping players in hotels.
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Dr. Fauci gives some hope baseball could return this summer — Wednesday morning Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, was giving baseball — and sports fans — something to dream about. The head of the National Institute of Allergies …
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David Schoenfield / ESPN:
How would MLB playoff teams change in a shortened season? Here's what recent years tell us — We don't know when the baseball season will begin, so we don't know how many games will ultimately be on the schedule. The shorter the schedule, the greater the likelihood of surprising results, of course.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Union chief Tony Clark still optimistic MLB will play games in some way in 2020 — Tony Clark, sitting in his Phoenix-area home Wednesday morning, looks at his cellphone, sees Jackie Robinson's picture as his screen saver, and reads the immortal words again. — “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
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Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment — A Chicago hospital treating severe Covid-19 patients with Gilead Sciences' antiviral medicine remdesivir in a closely watched clinical trial is seeing rapid recoveries in fever and respiratory symptoms …
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Today in White Sox History: April 8 — This day was a doozy, because it turned out to be one of the biggest and most painful “what if's” in franchise history. — As per the rules at the time, the White Sox had to choose between two pitchers signed to “bonus baby” contracts …
J.J. Cooper / Baseball America:
A 2020 Minor League Baseball Season Grows More And More Unlikely — If this were a normal year, the MiLB season would be one week old. But as we all know, there is nothing normal about 2020. And it's becoming all too easy to imagine the complete 2020 season being cancelled.
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Former Blue Jays 2B Damaso Garcia dies at 63 — Former Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Damaso Garcia died Wednesday in the Dominican Republic at the age of 63, his son, Damaso Garcia Jr., told ESPN. — Garcia played 11 seasons in the majors and was a two-time All-Star (1984, '85).
Bradford William Davis / New York Daily News:
Following Jackie Robinson's commitment to fighting poverty is the best way MLB could honor his legacy — Jackie Robinson's extraordinary path is too narrow for most of us to follow. How could it not be? — He was the first to break baseball's color barrier, in part because Major League Baseball players …
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New details emerge about the plane crash that killed MLB Hall of Famer Roy Halladay — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released new details about the plane crash that killed Hall of Fame pitcher Roy Halladay. — According to the report released Wednesday …
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Carlos Collazo / Baseball America:
MLB Mock Draft — It's an odd time to be doing a mock, and honestly, there's not a ton of information linking players to specific teams outside of the first few picks. That makes sense, considering we don't yet know how many rounds the draft will be, or even when the draft is going to take place.
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