Scotland Women's Six Nations match with France at Glasgow's Scotstoun Stadium on Saturday has been postponed after a home player contracted coronavirus.

The player is being treated in "a healthcare facility but is otherwise well", says Scottish Rugby, while seven members of the Scotland playing and management staff are in self-isolation.

Scotland men v France at Murrayfield on Sunday "continues as scheduled".

Scotland women's last game, in Italy, was called off over coronavirus fears.

The squad were in Italy when the match was cancelled hours before kick-off on 23 February.

Dr James Robson, Scottish Rugby's chief medical officer, said: "We are pleased that our player is doing well and that all the correct medical procedures have been followed and continue to be followed.

"We are working with the Scottish government in continuing to observe and follow NHS advice."

Scotland Under-20s' Six Nations match against France took place on Friday night in Galashiels.

Scottish Rugby says the decision to postpone the women's match was taken in conjunction with the French Rugby Federation and Six Nations, with talks to take place over rescheduled dates. Tickets for the Scotstoun match will remain valid.

Philip Doyle's Scotland side have picked up one losing bonus point after a narrow loss in Ireland was followed by a heavy home defeat by England.

AVONDALE, Ariz. – William Byron was fastest during the opening NASCAR Cup Series practice Friday at Phoenix Raceway.

Byron led the way in the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet with a speed of 134.595 mph at the one-mile speedway.

He was followed on the practice charts by his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott, who completed a 133.849 mph lap. Brad Keselowski was third for Team Penske, followed by Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kurt Busch.

There were a handful of minor incidents during the session, which saw Aric Almirola and Byron both scrap the wall. Neither car was seriously damaged. Corey LaJoie made contact with the turn one wall late in the session, damaging the right-rear of his car.

Free-agent center Joakim Noah has agreed to a deal with the LA Clippers, league sources tell ESPN.

Noah, 35, will join the Clippers on a 10-day contract next week, but there's optimism that he would finish the season with the team barring any setbacks, league sources said.

Noah will fill the franchise's final open roster spot. The Clippers have been monitoring Noah's physical progress throughout the season. Noah gives the Clippers an aggressive, physical, playoff-tested two-time former All-Star should a need arise for him in the postseason.

Noah has spent the year working out between New York and Los Angeles. He played 42 games with Memphis last season, after agreeing to a buyout with the New York Knicks. He's played only 124 NBA games since the end of the 2014-2015 season in Chicago.

Noah made the Eastern Conference All-Star teams in 2013 and 2014 with the Bulls. He was on the all-NBA first-team and the league's defensive player of the year in 2014.

TAMPA, Fla. -- New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge has a broken rib and it's not clear whether he will need surgery, leaving doubt about when he'll return to the lineup.

Manager Aaron Boone made the announcement Friday. He said he thought the star right fielder hurt himself making a diving catch in September of last season.

Judge will rest for two weeks while recovering from the stress fracture to his first right rib. He hasn't played in any spring training games while dealing with soreness in his right pectoral muscle and shoulder.

Judge underwent about a dozen tests, including an MRI plus CT and bone scans, to determine the source of his pain.

"It shows signs of healing, so we're going to give it the next couple of weeks and then we'll retest to show how much healing is going on with that rib," Boone said.

Removal of the bone is a possibility, depending on the healing process.

"I wouldn't say that's off the table, but you wouldn't want to go do that right now, especially if the bone is healing," Boone said.

Since winning the 2017 American League Rookie of the Year award, Judge has been limited to 112 games in 2018 because of a broken right wrist and 102 games last year due to a strained left oblique.

Two other Yankees outfielders already were sidelined. Giancarlo Stanton strained his right calf on Feb. 26 during defensive drills and will miss Opening Day on March 26. Center fielder Aaron Hicks had Tommy John surgery on his right elbow on Oct. 31 and is not expected back until summer.

New York also starts the season without three of its top five starting pitchers. Right-hander Luis Severino will missing the season following Tommy John surgery on Feb. 27; left-hander James Paxton is likely out until late May or June following surgery to repair a herniated disk in his back and to remove a cyst; and right-hander Domingo German must serve the final 63 games of an 81-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy. He is eligible to return June 5, barring any postponements.

A team's record in spring training doesn't mean much, and that's true for a player's statistics as well. Factors such as small sample size, wildly varying talent levels of the opposition, and players working on specific aspects of their game muddy the picture in terms of spring stats. The same isn't necessarily the case with spring performance, particularly for certain individuals.

Some players fighting for a job need to show they are hitting the ball harder, using a third pitch with confidence or have regained the step they seemed to have lost a year ago. Below are 10 players with something to prove this spring to make sure they are ready for Opening Day.

Former English National champion kept his cool after footwear failure and returns to the mud for Saturday’s Inter-Counties event

With the recent English National Cross Country Championships staged on unusually boggy ground, there were always going to be athletes whose shoes were sucked off in the mud, but Adam Hickey’s experience at Wollaton Park takes some beating.

The 31-year-old’s heel was clipped just as the senior men’s race was starting last month and, as soon as he hit the first patch of mud, his shoe came off completely.

Being the National champion from 2018, though, he was determined to carry on racing and after a lap-and-a-half of the course some fellow runners retrieved his footwear and passed it back to him. He stopped to put it on, fading to about 30th place in the process, before rejoining the race to surge up to fourth place as Calum Johnson took gold.

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“As the gun went I felt someone on my heel straight away and as soon as I stepped forward I knew it was coming off,” he told AW.

“I had a split-second decision over whether to stop there and then and risk getting ploughed into by the guys behind and to try to put it back on but then end up at the back of the field or to see what happened by keeping on running and then to see if it would stay on or how I might run if it came off.

“It stayed on for a short time until we went through the first bit of mud and then it was gone.”

Hickey began shouting to people at the side of the course that he’d lost his shoe and, after a while, someone found it and handed it to him.

“One of the guys came charging over to me and he’d already untied the laces and it was ready to go. I had to think about where to put it on and I was coming up to a bench and I thought ‘perfect’ and I put it on and even did a double knot. My wife couldn’t believe how calm I was.”

Just going to leave this here…………?

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— Adam Hickey (@runhickeyrun) February 25, 2020

He continued: “I’m not bad under pressure. With my work in the fire service at Southend Airport we’re used to dealing with pressure. I rationally thought about what I needed to do and I knew that if I didn’t get the shoe then I probably couldn’t have risked running on, so if I hadn’t got the shoe back then I might have dropped out.”

Hickey added that the support from fellow runners really kept him going and typified the “true spirit of cross country”. He also went out of his way to praise the winner, Johnson.

It was reminiscent of Dave Moorcroft’s run at the 1981 National at Parliament Hill when he missed the start after mishearing an announcement and began at the back of the field before overtaking most of the giant field.

Hickey’s big goal is the Virgin Money London Marathon in April, where he is one of the contenders for an Olympic spot. But he said that race was not on his mind at Wollaton Park. His racing instincts took over and he just wanted to finish the National in as high a position as possible.

Speaking to AW after that race weekend, when he had started his day with a 24-mile long run and then done a long day’s work until 9pm, he joked: “It turns out the course was designed for two shoes, with muddy sections and tree roots and all sorts.

“My next big cross-country race is the Inter-Counties and I’m planning to get a friend to stand behind me on the start line to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

His coach and former London Marathon winner Eamonn Martin was not there to see the race unfold but Hickey says: “I’m not sure what he would have said. He does say that the things that happen to me never happened to him!”

Ball boys and girls will wear gloves, and will not be required to touch players' towels, at Indian Wells because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Player and fan interaction will be limited and 250 hand sanitising stations have also been installed.

Spectators who have already bought tickets, but are now be having second thoughts, can request a refund.

Qualifying for the prestigious ATP and WTA tournament begins on Monday in California.

The state recently declared a state of emergency after a 71-year-old man died from the virus.

In the UK, sports governing bodies and broadcasters have been called to a government meeting on Monday to discuss the staging of events behind closed doors if the outbreak worsens and mass gatherings are banned.

One person has died in Britain from the virus so far and more than 160 people have tested positive.

Italy has ordered all major sporting events throughout the country to be played without fans for one month in a bid to curb Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak, while the upcoming Italy v England Six Nations match in Rome has been postponed.

The Premier League and EFL said pre-match handshakes between both teams and officials will not take place until further notice because of fears over the spread of coronavirus.