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As small business owners around the country suffer the economic wrath of COVID-19, with some state governments refusing to allow them to resume operation, one country club in Massachusetts is planning on defying the state order.

Four top golfers are set to play a $3 million coronavirus charity relief match to be broadcast by NBC Sports on May 17, reports say.

A recent survey conducted by ESPN shows that fans definitely want their sports back. Though, they’d prefer to watch on television, as opposed to going to the stadium.

Few things have mattered more to the NFL than growing their brand internationally. However, growing the NFL “across the pond” and “South of the Border” will have to be put on hold, at least for a while.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) discussed how the United States could hold China accountable for its role in the spread of the coronavirus pandemic around the globe and in the United States. 

Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban jumped to Twitter Sunday to scold the federal government for not hiring any of the millions of unemployed Americans to help track and fight the coronavirus.

Doctors, scientists and sports leaders are outlining the path back to playing fields for children in grassroots sports — an exercise that will help inform major organizations on how to get their industries up and running as well amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Iran President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday mosques would reopen across one third of the country within 24-hours, after they were shuttered early in March as the Middle East’s deadliest Chinese coronavirus outbreak took hold.

Foreign states are mounting “utterly reprehensible” cyber-attacks against British universities researching the coronavirus, according to security sources. 

(AFP) — Europe on Sunday prepared for a further cautious easing of coronavirus restrictions following signs the pandemic may be slowing, after Spaniards flocked to the streets to jog, cycle and rollerskate for the first time after 48 days of confinement.

The Vatican-sponsored Higher Committee of Human Fraternity has called for a common day of prayer and fasting, asserting that the world is “facing a great danger that threatens the lives of millions of people around the world due to the growing spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.”

The intelligence community has not ruled out the coronavirus was a bioweapon, but there is more belief that it was research that escaped.

A Mexican politician who previously served as the nation’s secretary of the interior announced that he tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Rather than finding sympathy, many social media users mocked him and cheered at the diagnosis.

President Trump has been consistent about his desire to see live sports action return to American televisions with or without fans.

Several hospitals in Mexico City tasked with treating cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) are at full capacity or are close to it, health officials revealed. Despite government assurances and admitted efforts to downplay the true spread of the pandemic, Mexico continues to see a rising number of cases.

UK Border Force officials have told staff that they are not allowed even to wear their own masks routinely at work, according to claims, despite two officers having already died of coronavirus.

Washington, DC, has not met the federal guidelines criteria for reopening after officials shut the nation’s capital down due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the city’s Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said this week, echoing a Breitbart News assessment.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Dr. Donald Yealy said on Thursday he believes the coronavirus death rate is much lower than feared, and he sees hospitals returning to normalcy soon.

LOS ANGELES, California — Hundreds gathered at the Los Angeles City Hall on Friday to protest Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus stay-at-home orders and to demand the economy be re-opened.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell advised Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to bring back pro baseball.

The NBA has set a date for league practice facilities to re-open, however, that doesn’t mean they’re ready to start testing their asymptomatic players for the coronavirus.

Over 1 million people across the globe have recovered from the Chinese coronavirus, according to data collected Thursday by Johns Hopkins University.

British people have taken to their new roles as government informants with surprising enthusiasm, inundating police forces with reports of neighbours allegedly breaking the terms of the state-imposed coronavirus lockdown.

Amazon hid information of a coronavirus outbreak from employees at one of its distribution centers in New York City, said Chris Smalls, who was fired by Amazon after he blew the whistle on the outbreak at his warehouse and helped organize a walkout to protest the unsafe working conditions there. 

The loss of television and ad revenue from the suspension of sports due to the coronavirus, will end up costing at least $12 billion, according to a recent analysis conducted for ESPN.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents stopped two human smuggling attempts involving tractor-trailer rigs at an interior immigration checkpoint near the Texas border with Mexico. The interactions led to the apprehension of 48 migrants and two U.S. citizens for an investigation related to human smuggling.

Baylor, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M universities have announced that they will re-open for classes in the fall and will also resume their sports programs at that time.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has announced that he is allowing some sports to re-start their games in the Sunshine State.

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) plans to withdraw black and minority ethnic (BAME) health workers from frontline roles in the fight against the coronavirus, in order to reduce the supposedly disproportionate BAME death toll. 

TEL AVIV – In some good news that coincided with Israel’s 72nd Independence Day, the number of people in Israel who have recovered from the coronavirus has for the first time outnumbered those who are sick.

This year’s Little League World Series and the championship tournaments in six other Little League divisions have been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR announced Thursday that it will resume its season without fans starting May 17 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina with the premier Cup Series racing three more times in a 10-day span.

Should college football not start their season on time, the National Football League is considering doing something they normally don’t do until the postseason: Saturday NFL football.

The number of migrants rescued in the Laredo Sector jumped 57 percent this fiscal year despite the lower overall number of illegal border crossings due to Coronavirus fears and policies.

The NBA may turn to the “Magic Kingdom” for help in its attempt to play out the remainder of its season, according to a report.

The federal coronavirus guidelines used by many governors nationwide to justify their lockdowns phase out on Thursday, to be replaced with new federal guidelines to reopen America that will phase in, the White House confirmed to Breitbart News.