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The staff at West Craven High School in Vanceboro had yard signs made for all 220 graduating seniors. And then the principal and some teachers delivered them.

 
Formula 1 hopes to start July 5 in Austria. MLS having workouts. Latest NHL plan is mid to late May for workouts . NBA also looking at next season starting in Dec.
 
Paulie Walnuts said:
Taiwan baseball is still going on. They only have 5 teams and had a brawl.

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Social distancing takes a hit as Taiwan baseball teams brawl

Playing to empty stadiums, Taiwan has managed to keep its baseball league running during the coronavirus pandemic -- but social distancing went out of the window on Sunday when a game descended into an on-field brawl. As a measure of its success, Taiwan has one of the few professional sports...
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Representatives of all the teams will meet tomorrow to determine when fans will be allowed in the stadiums. The league proposed a maximum of 500 people in the stadium and The Central Epidemic Command Center is expected to approve it. After accounting for players, coaches, staff, broadcasters, umpires and cheerleaders, it‘s expected that there will be a limit of 250 fans allowed in.

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Taiwan's pro baseball league to allow 250 fans per game: CECC - Focus Taiwan

Taipei, May 3 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Sunday that it expects to soon allow a maximum of 250 fans attend local professional baseball games, which are currently played behind closed-doors due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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as predicted I did a mortgage closing in the parking lot. And they also added a form I signed to say I was not impacted by Covid 19
 
ESPN has obtained the English language rights to the Korean Baseball League and will start broadcasting them tomorrow. They’ll be broadcasting 6 regular season games each week, at 5:30 am ET Tuesday-Friday, 4 am ET on Saturday and 1 am ET on Sundays on ESPN2

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ESPN to televise Korea Baseball Organization games

Starting with opening day on Tuesday, ESPN will televise six regular-season games of the Korea Baseball Organization per week.
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Northgate mall is pining for the fjords. It was all but dead and the virus killed it off

Those Korean games should be called insomniac theater. :)
 
Northgate was deep into their death spiral well before this shutdown. The new-ish owner has been working to get re-development plans approved for more than a year, so ceasing operations and filing for bankruptcy now is just a way to let everybody off the hook. The movie theater was the only viable business concern remaining anyway ... and I'm sure they'll be open and back in business soon enough.
 
Part of the mall was turned into offices so I guess those places will have to move. Duke has people there and also a place called Measurement Inc.
 
Those offices will remain active, so far as I can tell. The announcement was specific to retail operations, and those office would remain under every re-development plan that the owners have submitted thus far. The last one I saw kept that stuff and the movie theater and converted everything else into a combination of retail, commercial offices and multi-family residential sort of like a smaller scale North Hills. The neighbors have objected due to concerns about gentrification. Last I heard it was sitting in the City planning department waiting for those idiots to decide how to proceed.
 
NC going to phase 1 Friday at 5 pm. Most businesses will open except for restaurants which will still be takeout only. Also hair salons and gyms still closed. Phase 2 scheduled for May 22nd if things go well.
 
Paulie Walnuts said:
NC going to phase 1 Friday at 5 pm. Most businesses will open except for restaurants which will still be takeout only. Also hair salons and gyms still closed. Phase 2 scheduled for May 22nd if things go well.
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This article has a graphic showing the differences between current status and Phase 1.

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Governor Cooper Announces Modified Stay At Home Order and Transition to Phase 1 of Easing Restrictions New order takes effect Friday, May 8 at 5 pm

RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper today signed Executive Order No. 138 to modify North Carolina’s Stay At Home order and transition to Phase 1 of slowly easing certain COVID-19 restrictions effective Friday, May 8 at 5 pm. Certain businesses remain closed as the state continues battling COVID-19...
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andyt said:
It looks like the Bundesliga will return on May 9 with empty stadiums. Their US broadcast rights are held by Fox until the end of this season, then switch to ESPN.
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The German government has signed off, the Bundesliga returns to play next weekend.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Bundesliga 'to return on May 15' as Germany gives green light

State premiers are set to give the green light for large shops to reopen, probably from May 11, and also allow the Bundesliga to resume matches under strict conditions without fans in stadiums.
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