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In this still image from video provided by the NFL, LSU quarterback Joe Burrow appears in The Plains, Ohio, during the NFL football draft Thursday, April 23, 2020.

For all the changes, NFL draft kind of looked, well, normal

In this still image from video provided by the NFL, LSU quarterback Joe Burrow appears in The Plains, Ohio, during the NFL football draft Thursday, April 23, 2020.

April 23, 2020, 6:50pm National Sports

In this most unique of drafts, filled with technological concerns and even uncertainty when real football might return, there was one constant Thursday night: Joe Burrow. Read story

FILE - In this April 2, 2020, file photo, a pedestrian wears a hat and a face mask on Sunset Blvd., in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. With no games being played, recent sports headlines have centered around hopes and dreams -- namely, the uncharted path leagues and teams must navigate to return to competition in the wake of the pandemic.

Sports leagues seek return to play but with no guarantees

FILE - In this April 2, 2020, file photo, a pedestrian wears a hat and a face mask on Sunset Blvd., in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. With no games being played, recent sports headlines have centered around hopes and dreams -- namely, the uncharted path leagues and teams must navigate to return to competition in the wake of the pandemic.

April 19, 2020, 12:22pm National Sports

With no games being played, recent sports headlines have centered around hopes and dreams — namely, the uncharted path leagues and teams must navigate to return to competition in the wake of the pandemic. Read story

Oregon's Satou Sabally, left, Sabrina Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard, right, were all top-8 first-round picks in the WNBA draft on Friday, April 17, 2020.

Oregon’s Ionescu goes No. 1 in WNBA draft to New York Liberty

Oregon's Satou Sabally, left, Sabrina Ionescu and Ruthy Hebard, right, were all top-8 first-round picks in the WNBA draft on Friday, April 17, 2020.

April 17, 2020, 5:49pm National Sports

Oregon star Sabrina Ionescu was the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, as expected. Read story

Fans leave the Golden 1 Center after the NBA basketball game between the New Orleans Pelicans and Sacramento Kings was postponed at the last minute in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The league said the decision was made out of an &quot;abundance of caution,&quot; because official Courtney Kirkland, who was scheduled to work the game, had worked the Utah Jazz game earlier in the week. A player for the Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus.

NBA players to receive 25% less in paychecks starting May 15

Fans leave the Golden 1 Center after the NBA basketball game between the New Orleans Pelicans and Sacramento Kings was postponed at the last minute in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The league said the decision was made out of an &quot;abundance of caution,&quot; because official Courtney Kirkland, who was scheduled to work the game, had worked the Utah Jazz game earlier in the week. A player for the Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus.

April 17, 2020, 4:43pm National Sports

Commissioner Adam Silver said it remains impossible for the NBA to make any decisions about whether to resume this season and that it is unclear when that will change. Read story

Kevin Na, front left, is congratulated by Charles Schwab after winning The Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial on May 26, 2019, in Fort Worth, Texas. The PGA Tour laid out an ambitious plan to resume its season Thursday, April 16, 2020, with hopes of a restart at Colonial on June 11-14 and keeping fans away for at least the first month. (AP Photo/ Richard W.

PGA Tour hopes to resume in June at Colonial with no fans

Kevin Na, front left, is congratulated by Charles Schwab after winning The Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial on May 26, 2019, in Fort Worth, Texas. The PGA Tour laid out an ambitious plan to resume its season Thursday, April 16, 2020, with hopes of a restart at Colonial on June 11-14 and keeping fans away for at least the first month. (AP Photo/ Richard W.

April 16, 2020, 3:18pm National Sports

The PGA Tour laid out an ambitious plan Thursday to resume its season the second week of June and keep fans away for at least a month, conceding that any return to golf depends on whether it can be played safely amid the coronavirus outbreak. Read story

UCLA running back Joshua Kelley runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine on Feb. 28, 2020, in Indianapolis. Kelley was looking forward to visiting various NFL teams, checking out their facilities and meeting coaches before the Covid-19 global pandemic changed the pre-draft process.

Video chats to home workouts, NFL draft prospects get it done

UCLA running back Joshua Kelley runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine on Feb. 28, 2020, in Indianapolis. Kelley was looking forward to visiting various NFL teams, checking out their facilities and meeting coaches before the Covid-19 global pandemic changed the pre-draft process.

April 16, 2020, 12:30pm National Sports

UCLA running back Joshua Kelley was looking forward to visiting various NFL teams, checking out their facilities and meeting coaches before the COVID-19 pandemic changed the pre-draft process. Read story

FILE - In this July 27, 2014, file photo, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Tarvaris Jackson smiles while stretching at an NFL football camp practice in Renton, Wash. Former NFL quarterback Tarvaris Jackson has died in a one-car crash outside Montgomery, Ala., authorities said Monday, April 13, 2020. He was 36. The 2012 Chevrolet Camaro that Jackson was driving went off the road, struck a tree and overturned at 8:50 p.m. Sunday, Trooper Benjamin &quot;Michael&quot; Carswell, an Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman, said in a news release. Jackson was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Former Seahawks Tarvaris Jackson dies in car crash

FILE - In this July 27, 2014, file photo, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Tarvaris Jackson smiles while stretching at an NFL football camp practice in Renton, Wash. Former NFL quarterback Tarvaris Jackson has died in a one-car crash outside Montgomery, Ala., authorities said Monday, April 13, 2020. He was 36. The 2012 Chevrolet Camaro that Jackson was driving went off the road, struck a tree and overturned at 8:50 p.m. Sunday, Trooper Benjamin &quot;Michael&quot; Carswell, an Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman, said in a news release. Jackson was pronounced dead at a hospital.

April 13, 2020, 2:30pm National Sports

Former NFL quarterback Tarvaris Jackson has died in a one-car crash outside Montgomery, authorities said Monday. He was 36. Read story

This 1979 file photo shows Edwin Moses, 400-meter gold Olympic medalist. Forty years ago this weekend, the U.S. Olympic Committee voted to boycott the 1980 Moscow Games. Moses called the whole ordeal horrible.

40 years later, U.S. vote to skip Moscow Games still ‘horrible’

This 1979 file photo shows Edwin Moses, 400-meter gold Olympic medalist. Forty years ago this weekend, the U.S. Olympic Committee voted to boycott the 1980 Moscow Games. Moses called the whole ordeal horrible.

April 11, 2020, 11:19am National Sports

The 1980 U.S. Olympic team was the team that never made it to the Moscow Games after President Jimmy Carter spearheaded a now-infamous first-of-its-kind decision to boycott the Olympics. Read story

Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan, pictured on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020.

‘The Last Dance’ director talks project on Jordan’s Bulls

Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan, pictured on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020.

April 10, 2020, 6:19pm National Sports

Jason Hehir was a kid in the stands in Boston Garden on April 20, 1986, the day that Michael Jordan scored a playoff-record 63 points. Read story

Blake Wheeler and the Winnipeg Jets would have been on the road last week, trying to make a final push for the playoffs had the National Hockey League season not been called off because of the pandemic. Now the seven-time All-Star forward is home for dinner each night with his family.

On-the-go sports stars embrace family time during shutdown

Blake Wheeler and the Winnipeg Jets would have been on the road last week, trying to make a final push for the playoffs had the National Hockey League season not been called off because of the pandemic. Now the seven-time All-Star forward is home for dinner each night with his family.

April 10, 2020, 2:24pm National Sports

Blake Wheeler and the Winnipeg Jets would have been on the road last week, trying to make a final push for the playoffs had the National Hockey League season not been called off because of the pandemic. Read story