Day 121

• The All-England Lawn Tennis Club will be paying the players who would've otherwise qualified for the now-cancelled Wimbledon tournament on a basis of what tournament(s) qualified for.
• The kinds of sanctions which might be necessary to hold sports ANYTIME SOON:  Word coming from Toronto that any break of bubble may be punishable by jail time and a fine of up to THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS.
• The draws at UEFA attempts to complete this season's European continental club tournaments were held today.
• State of California has moved ALL sports for the community colleges in the state into 2021.  They will attempt an early-spring season for the likes of football, basketball, and soccer (practices January, games February, March, and April), and a late-spring season for the rest (March, April, May, June) -- all schedules truncated 30%, no state community-college championships.  Increasing the possibility there may not be in-campus Fall terms at all in the Calfornia community colleges.   
• The Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' union has called for 100% closed-campus online instruction until further notice.
• Buster Posey, citing the testing concerns, has opted out of the MLB 2020 season. 
• The Pac-12 has joined the Big Ten in going conference-only, at least for football.  Is anyone else thinking this is just the last thrashing of the old college sports order before it goes kaput to the virus?    
• The ACC will need a couple more weeks to decide how to go forward themselves.
• And, as if on cue, an announcement that Larry Scott, the Commissioner of the Pac-12 Conference, is battling COVID-19 as we speak.
• So is Michael Bidwill, one of the owners of the Arizona Cardinals. 
• Though rumored many weeks ago, the announcement finally came off that the Alabama-USC football game announced for the TV opening of the college football season at the Jerry Palace has been cancelled. 
• Olbermann's back: 

Live #Thurbercast No. 77 https://t.co/3sPIQLc8rC

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 11, 2020

• At least one state appears to be ready to mandate hourly handwashing as part of getting school back.
• The NHL has approved a labor situation to get this season going.  Training camps start Monday and players will have three days to decide whether they want to play in the 2019-20 playoffs, which start August 1. 
• Popular (and in-character murderous) New Japan Pro Wrestling star Minoru Suzuki is out of this weekend's first with-fans cards in Kyoto.  Precautionary with a fever, though New Japan notes he tested negative for the virus one week ago and has had no contact with wrestlers since.