Major League Soccer to Resume Season July 8 at Walt Disney World

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIt is tempting to envision Chinese media firms as the local equivalent of a familiar Western brand. That mindset imagines Weibo as the Chinese Twitter, iQIYI as the Chinese Netflix, and WeChat as a Middle Kingdom version of WhatsApp.The reality is usually more complicated.

Although the coronavirus has made it so the annual “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular” will look a little different in 2020, NBC announced it's enlisting some serious star power to help make it a worthwhile celebration all the same.

Also Read: Virtual ESPYS Settle for 482,000 Viewers Across ESPN and ESPN2Overall, TNT will have 18 “Seeding Games” and air double-headers on Tuesday, and triple-headers on Thursday. ESPN will have 17, while ABC will get three. Each of the 22 teams that are part of the NBA’s restart will play eight games to determine playoff seeding.The playoff TV schedule figures to be unchanged from what it would have been during a normal season.

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BRANSON, Mo. -- Branson, Missouri, may be known for its country music shows and wholesome entertainment, but the tourist hot spot now finds itself at the center of a standoff over Confederate symbolism.

Also Read: MLB Employees and Players to Take Part in First Major US COVID-19 Antibody Test“The health and safety of players and employees will remain MLB’s foremost priorities in its return to play,” a statement from the league said.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorBeat the drum and hold the phone — the sun came out today. Nearly three months after Opening Day was canceled amod the burgeoning coronavirus outbreak, Major League Baseball and its players union have agreed to play a truncated 60-game regular season starting in late July.The sides finally sorted out their differences after the pandemic sidelined the season that was to begin in March and has kept America’s pastime off the field since.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorA group of 700 Black, Asian, and minority ethnic TV workers have written to UK networks and streamers, including Netflix, the BBC and Sky, and the government demanding action on racial equality.The letter, which Deadline has made available to read in full here, is the work of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic TV Task Force, which has swelled to hundreds of members after being established shortly after the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives

The new chief of U.S.-funded international broadcasting on Wednesday fired the heads of at least two outlets he oversees and replaced their boards with allies, in a move likely to raise fears that he intends to turn the Voice of America and its sister outlets into Trump administration propaganda machines. U.S.

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Jake Kanter International TV EditorUEFA has confirmed that Europan club soccer tournaments, the Champions League and Europa League, will return in August after being postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic.The Champions League will be back as a straight knock-out tournament, with single fixture quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final being played in Lisbon, Portugal, between 12 and 23 August.

Pictures: Manchester United players train ahead of Tottenham fixtureThe Northern Irish midfielder has been a mainstay in the Under-23s for a while, matching Mengi’s 18 appearances for Neil Wood’s side this season.Galbraith recently impressed in one of United’s two friendlies against West Bromwich Albion, having made his debut earlier this season with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it late cameo against Astana.Renowned for his ball control and ability to pick passes over the top of defences in tight

We Are Sorry,” sisters Susan Miller Warden and Jeanne Miller Wood explained that the cartoon — which shows a white woman being robbed by a black man who tells her it’s useless to call 911 because “we defunded the police” — was never run by them and was, in fact, published in Wednesday’s paper by their father, Bill Miller, Sr., without their knowledge.

Related: Everton's Jean-Philippe Gbamin set to be out until 2021 with achilles injury Everton remain a long way off realising the ambitions of the majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri and their three-times Champions League winning manager. That would have been brought home to Ancelotti when his team blew a two-goal lead in stoppage time against Newcastle, in defeat at Arsenal and especially in the 4-0 reverse at Chelsea in the final game before lockdown.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorMajor League Soccer will return to the field next month with a World Cup-style tournament involving all 26 teams, to be played at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at Disney World Resort in Florida. After that it will return to its regular 2020 season, which has been shut down since early March because of the coronavirus pandemic.The teams will be split into six groups for the MLS is Back Tournament, which will be played at empty parks.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorMajor League Soccer has announced it will resume its season on July 8 with a World Cup-style tournament involving all 26 of its teams.The league suspended its season in March due to the threat of COVID-19, becoming one of many sports leagues abruptly unplugged during the pandemic.As with the NBA, whose season is resuming July 31, MLS games will be played without fans at ESPN Wide World of Sports, a large area within the Disney World Resort in Florida.

Facebook post. “This current fight we are in is evidence of that, lives are at stake because of the systems of oppression that go hand-in-hand with racism.” The revision comes against the backdrop of protests around the country against police brutality after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned his neck to the ground.