While sports leagues in the United States remain hesitant to outright cancel much of anything due to the COVID-19 pandemic, overseas we’ve already seen one major domino fall in the cancellation of this summer’s Wimbledon. It’s the first time the tennis tournament has been canceled since World War II and indicates just how seriously they are taking this and how long they expect the effects of the virus to be felt.

The next major sporting event to be held in the UK after Wimbledon would be The Open Championship at Royal St. George’s in Kent, England, but now it appears that too will be canceled, per a report from Golf Digest.

The R&A is expected to cancel the 2020 Open Championship, multiple sources tell Golf Digest. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak about the cancellation publicly.

The decision, which could be announced as early as Thursday, comes after the All England Club canceled the Wimbledon tennis tournament (scheduled for June 29) on Wednesday. Sources told Golf Digest last week the R&A was awaiting the decision on Wimbledon before proceeding.

The tournament was scheduled to take place from July 16-19, and, unlike the other golf majors stateside that have “postponed” without outright canceling, it will not be rescheduled. It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on whether the other three majors also make an official decision on not playing them at all or if they keep hope alive of being played at a later date.

Rich The Kid delivered his third album, Boss Man, early last month — his first official project under the Republic Records helm. Originally 19 tracks in length, Rich The Kid has followed the recent trend of updating an album after its release, whether it be for a small tweak or to add a new song. His latest update adds one song, bringing the total up to 20 tracks.

Extending the song by only 45 seconds, Rich The Kid updates the track “Stuck Together” with some help from Future. Arriving just a month after the album, the song is another in a productive period of music that also included his contribution to Kyle’s “YES!” and a new video for “Red.”

On the record, Future doesn’t rap about anything beyond buying jewelry for the women in his life while reestablishing his position his the rap game. He even alludes to his viral video alongside Young Thug, raping, “If she mine then she rockin’ Philippe/That ain’t me she belong to the street.”

In addition to the updated version of “Stuck Together,” Rich The Kid also rearranged the order of songs to give a new feel to the album.

You can hear “Stuck Together” in the video above.

Boss Man is out now via Republic. Get it here.

As a way to combat his possible boredom during coronavirus quarantine, Guapdad 4000 developed a new way to collaborate with his fellow rap friends: He launched his Rona Raps series. With help from fans, Guapdad 4000 would pick a beat, send it to his friends while he and one collaborator would rap over the beat on video. The video is then sent back to Guapdad, who would then merge the videos into one. Having kicked off the series with Buddy a couple of weeks ago, Guapdad returns with not one but two fellow rappers for his latest episode.

Episode three finds Guapdad 4000 taking on Luniz’s “I Got 5 On It” alongside Denzel Curry and Wiz Khalifa. Sporting a Pikachu beanie, Guapdad leads the way, as usual, with a verse of his own, before lending the mic to Denzel, who delivered a clear message about social distancing and, quite frankly, staying away from him. Things close out with Wiz Khalifa sharing his own verse, one that featured a reference to the wild faces Sean Garrett made during his songwriter battle with The-Dream, several weed references, plus a quick tribute to Nipsey Hussle.

In addition to the collaborative rap series, each Rona Raps episode, dropped every Friday, is followed by the release of a new song from Guapdad, with the latest release being “Dolce Gabbana Dali Lama.”

You can watch the latest Rona Raps episode in the video above.

The nationwide quarantine has led to an increased amount of both indoor activity and social media entertainment.Ari Lennox has been keeping her fans entertained through her comical Instagram Live sessions, and she went live again Wednesday to showcase her struggles securing her new wig. Clearly dissatisfied by the way it looked on her, Ari requested help from her viewers, repeatedly asking, “So I guess I gotta cut more lace?” before jokingly getting frustrated by their responses.

The Shaderoom reposted the video of Ari’s wig struggle to their Instagram page, which led to ommenting on the video, Snoop Dogg said, “Grow your own hair what happened to those.” Fans were not happy with his response, as many took to Twitter to share their thoughts.

Whether or not Ari took offense to Snoop’s comments remains to be seen. However, she did exhibit a great sense of humor about them in a post to Instagram. She shared a picture of what ironically appears to be a fairer-skinned Snoop Dogg in a wig, with a caption that read, “Uncle I just…I just thought we had an understanding…”

Snoop’s comments come just a month after he was widely criticized for his response to Gayle King’s Kobe Question, which led to Ari Lennox defending him. He later made an appearance on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk to apologize for his comments, but it looks like he’ll be heading there once more.

Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free AEW Dynamite results for April 1, 2020. The latest empty arena show featured Kenny Omega versus Trent from Best Friends, Cody Rhodes teaming up with Darby Allin to face Sammy Guevara and Shawn Spears, the announcement of the second half of the TNT Championship tournament, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Ins and Outs of AEW Dynamite column.

AEW Dynamite Results:

– The full brackets for the TNT Championship tournament were announced.

– Tony Schiavone and Cody are on commentary again, with an assist from Pharaoh the dog.

1. Kenny Omega defeated Trent with the One-Winged Angel. Omega helped Trent up after the match and fist-bumped him.

2. Hikaru Shida defeated Anna Jayy. Shida won with a knee to the back of the head, followed by a Falcon Arrow. Britt Baker was among the wrestlers at ringside for the match, and she and Shida had words before and afterward. Also, Baker ate a sandwich because she thought the match was boring.

– A video package about Jon Moxley’s rivalry with Jake Hager aired. Moxley mentioned that they used to listen to the Jerky Boys together. I didn’t need to include that in the results, but I felt like you should know. Moxley and Hager will face off for the AEW World Championship on Dynamite in two weeks.

3. Lance Archer murdered Marko Stunt. Colt Cabana was on commentary. Archer won with a chokeslam and his Blackout slam. After the match, Archer chokeslammed Stunt from the ring apron onto the wrestlers at ringside.

– Another video of Brodie Lee bossing around the Dark Order aired.

4. The Natural Nightmares (Dustin Rhodes and QT Marshall) defeated Dark Order members 8 and 9. “8” and “9” were generic masked men. The Nightmares won their Dynamite debut with their tandem cutter finisher.

– Chris Jericho sent in a video of him at his home in a hot tub. Vanguard-1 flew in and Jericho once again offered him a spot in the Inner Circle. Jericho gave him a tiny t-shirt, but Vanguard flew away with it. Jericho then “released the hounds,” a bunch of cute little dogs, to chase the drone.

– The Young Bucks worked out in a ring at Nick Jackson’s home and talked about how he isn’t ready to return yet.

5. Shawn Spears and Sammy Guevara defeated Cody and Darby Allin. Spears and Guevara bet on the match during the match. Guevara tried to introduce a chair, which distracted Allin and allowed Spears to roll him up for the win. After the match, Allin knocked Cody down with a forearm.

No joke – here are your quick and editorial-free results the April 1, 2020, edition of WWE NXT. The last episode of NXT before WrestleMania included a women’s gauntlet match, a triple threat for the North American Championship, and more. Make sure you’re back here tomorrow for the full Best and Worst of NXT review.

NXT results:

1. Velveteen Dream defeated Bobby Fish with a Dream Valley Driver.

– After the match, Dream cut a promo on Adam Cole and the rest of the Undisputed Era.

– Malcolm Bivens cut a promo introducing the Bivens Enterprises tag team, Saurav Gurjar and Rinku Singh.

2. Dexter Lumis defeated Jake Atlas by submission. This was Atlas’s NXT TV debut.

– A vignette for Killer Kross played.

– Highlights from Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa’s brawl in the Performance Center were shown.

3. Dakota Kai won a six-woman gauntlet match to determine the final entrant in next week’s ladder match to determine the post-WrestleMania contender for the NXT Women’s Championship. Shotzi Blackheart entered the match first and eliminated Deonna Purrazzo, Xia Li, Aliyah, and Kayden Carter. Kai, accompanied by Raquel Gonzalez, entered last and eliminated Blackheart with the Go To Kick.

– A recap of the feud between Charlotte Flair and Rhea Ripley played.

4. Kushida submitted Joaquin Wilde with an armbar. Kushida and Wilde shook hands after the match.

– A recap of the Gargano-Ciampa feud played.

– As he was being interviewed outside of Full Sail, Wilde was kidnapped by masked men like Raul Mendoza was a few weeks ago.

5. NXT North American Championship match: Keith Lee (c) defeated Dominik Dijakovic and Damian Priest, pinning Dijakovic with the Big Bang Catastrophe.

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The world has been on virtual lock-down for weeks now in the face of a global pandemic that has killed tens of thousands and continues to spread rapidly as a badly-depleted healthcare industry scrambles to provide services to the scores of people who have been affected.

The crisis has forced everyone to make sacrifices and has led to an unprecedented situation in which the majority of the population is confined to their homes and left floundering to find ways to occupy their time to try and maintain a basic level of sanity amid all the fear and uncertainty.

It’s required many people to give up what they love doing the most. That includes professional athletes, whose seasons have been delayed indefinitely. For Steph Curry, it’s meant that he hasn’t been able to shoot a basketball for weeks now. That’s right. Apparently, Steph Curry, aka the greatest shooter who’s ever walked the face of the Earth, doesn’t have a basketball hoop at his home. But that was rectified recently after Ayesha purchased one for him online, but it turns out the assembly was more involved than he anticipate.

Via Ben Cohen of The Wall Street Journal:

Stephen Curry had been stuck at home for more than two weeks, unable to do the one thing he does better than anybody, when his wife ordered him a Spalding hoop for their driveway. For the first time in 16 days, he could shoot a basketball. Or at least that was the plan.

But this solution only caused another problem. Now he actually had to put the hoop together.

“I got overwhelmed looking at the manual,” Curry said. After what he could only describe as “a pretty serious effort,” Curry finally succeeded at his unexpected assembly job. It only took him five hours.

“I was very confident in myself going in,” he said. “That was shot down pretty quick.”

Perhaps gaining a more intimate knowledge of all the mechanisms of a basketball hoop will make him even that much more deadly as a shooter. But even though he hasn’t been able to shoot recently, he’s had plenty to keep himself occupied during the self-quarantine.

Earlier this week, Curry interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci of the Institute for Infections Diseases in an effort to educate fans about the dangers of COVID-19 and the best ways to protect yourself and others. He and his wife Ayesha have donated to local efforts to ensure school children have meals, and he along with the Warriors organization have pledged $1 million to the arena workers who have been put out of work.

Before the shutdown, Curry had just recently made his return after missing a big chunk of the season with a broken hand. The new hoop in the driveway should help him get his touch back for if and when the NBA season returns.

(The Wall Street Journal)

They started off so well!

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Baby Yoda cookies > cookies shaped like literally any other thing on Earth.

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