Just hours after the Pac-12 canceled separate games involving California and UCLA, the conference announced the teams will play each other Sunday at the Rose Bowl.

"The scheduling of this game is consistent with the Conference's commitment to provide opportunities for student-athletes through maximum scheduling flexibility while still prioritizing health and safety," the Pac-12 said in a statement.

Kickoff is set for 12 p.m. ET, and will be televised on FS1.

Cal was originally scheduled to play at Arizona State, while UCLA was set to host Utah. Those games were cancelled due to positive cases of COVID-19 and related contact tracing for both Arizona State and Utah.

"First and foremost, I want to commend our football student-athletes on their flexibility and focus in the midst of a lot of uncertainty," UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmound said in a statement. "I'd also like to thank Jim Knowlton, Justin Wilcox and the Cal football program, as well as Pac-12 Conference leadership, for working diligently with us to find a way to compete this weekend. It's an unconventional solution in an unconventional year and we're excited to host the Bears at the Rose Bowl on Sunday."

Cal's game against Washington was canceled last week as a result of contact tracing protocols related to one positive case of COVID-19. The Golden Bears were without several players, including the entire defensive line, which was not expected to be able to exit quarantine until Sunday.

It's unclear when the Bears will travel to Pasadena, however due to the early kickoff it's likely to happen on Saturday, before the players are scheduled to exit quarantine.

"We have known from the beginning of this pandemic that there could be challenges this season and that we would need to remain flexible and find ways to be creative while still keeping the health and safety of our student-athletes as our No. 1 priority," Cal athletic director Jim Knowlton said in a statement. "This has certainly been an emotional rollercoaster for those in our program, particularly our student-athletes, but we need to remain as diligent as ever and proceed within federal, state and local protocols. We are appreciative of the work from all involved to be able to play this game on short notice."

As a result of the scheduling change, the UCLA-Oregon game scheduled for Nov. 20, will take place on Nov. 21.

Canada's deputy chief of public health says the Toronto Raptors have presented a good plan to play at home during the upcoming NBA season, but concerns remain over enforcing strict health protocols and travel over the border with the United States.

Dr. Howard Njoo said Friday that public health officials from Ontario, Toronto and the Public Health Agency of Canada have had discussions with the Raptors, who are hoping to play at Scotiabank Arena despite spikes in COVID-19 cases at home and in the U.S.

Njoo said the Raptors presented a plan with good health protocols and have learned from the NBA's "bubble'' experiment when the league finished the 2019-20 season at an isolated campus in Florida. But Njoo said it would be "tough on everyone involved'' to observe the same health measures over a monthslong NBA season during which teams are not isolated together.

He also said cross-border travel "continues to be an issue.'' The Canada-U.S. border is closed to nonessential travel, and those entering the country are subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine.

According to a report from SportsNet confirmed by ESPN, the Raptors have tabbed Tampa, Florida, as "an option" to be their home market for the 2020-21 season if they are unable to play in Canada.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Before their match against France, BBC Sport meets the England women's rugby team, and finds out who is the bossiest, who is the fittest and who has the best moves.

Watch live coverage of France v England on Saturday, 14 November at 13:00 GMT on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer

CONCORD, N.C. — James McFadden considered it “a relief” that he was able to travel to the United States to compete with Kasey Kahne Racing with Mike Curb this season.

Not only did he do that, McFadden was able to earn one of his biggest wins yet, topping the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series field at Missouri’s Lake Ozark Speedway.

With that success in mind, McFadden is looking toward the future. He’s hopeful of a renewal with the team and a return to the No. 9 sprint car fielded by former NASCAR star Kasey Kahne.

McFadden told Sprint Car & Midget during the recent World of Outlaws Last Call weekend at The Dirt Track at Charlotte that while “nothing’s been agreed to” in regards to a formal deal for 2021, that “there have been some conversations” and he’d like to continue with the team if there’s a chance to do so.

“It’s just a family atmosphere,” said McFadden of KKR. “We all get along on and off the track, and I think that’s a big part of (what makes teams successful). We all get along. We’re all friends. They treat me like family, and obviously being over here (and away from Australia) is tough. I don’t have any family or … you know, a lot of close people over here. So to be so close with this team is great. And they treat me like I’ve been a part of the team for the last 20 years. So that helps a lot.

“There’s a lot of knowledge between everyone that’s worked across the board for this team as well,” McFadden continued. “It just all has snowballed into a good time and a fast race car.”

That fast race car was piloted by Kahne for the first half of the season, while McFadden was stuck in his native Australia due to international travel restrictions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 31-year-old admitted there “were a few doubts at times” that he’d be able to race in the United States at all this year, but he was able to come stateside just before the 360 Knoxville Nationals at Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway in August.

“We were gearing up for quite a big year, and obviously the pandemic hit the world and pretty well messed up everyone’s plans,” noted McFadden, who was scheduled to return to Australia on Wednesday. “To finally get here and to be racing was really good. I have to thank them (KKR) for hanging in and waiting for me. We slowly got faster and faster all season long.

“It’s just been good to be able to make some laps and get off the couch at home and get out in a race car.”

McFadden counted his victory in the Jason Johnson Classic at Lake Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Mo., as “by far” his biggest moment of the year. It marked his first World of Outlaws-sanctioned win with KKR and his second victory in 91 starts with The Greatest Show on Dirt.

“We’d been so close with the Outlaws, you know? I think we had five or six second-place finishes on the Outlaw tour since I came over to KKR, but we’d been in positions to win them and been in the top five. So I knew we were capable,” McFadden explained. “We just finally put a whole night together and won the Jason Johnson race, which was special for me because Jason was really close to our family. I spent a lot of time with him in Australia when he’d come down there to race, so it was just a special weekend.

“It was good to get the KKR guys a win as well and repay them for a little bit of what they’d held out for me to be able to get here (to the U.S.),” he continued. “To finally get one in the books was important to all of us. It was a long time coming. Hopefully, that one helps it start to become a little easier for us to win because I think we’ve always had the speed. We just never put a whole night together before that.

“That’s a sign, I think, of how much better we’ve become. The more races we run together, the faster we get.”

It’s that speed McFadden hopes to build on if he can return to KKR next season.

“As I’ve said, there’s nothing done yet, but I want to be back if all the pieces can come together and they’ll have me again,” McFadden said. “I enjoy running with these guys and we have a good time.”

BELLEVILLE, Ill. – As entries and interest continue to grow for the inaugural running of the POWRi Midget iNationals presented by Live Sim Racing TV, the entry deadline of Dec. 4 is looming as spots fill quickly for the virtual racing event.

Dec. 11-12 will witness competitors from all over try to tame the digital dirt of Fairbury American Legion Speedway in attempts to take to a record-breaking purse.

With a variety of simulated-driving professionals and real-world racers, the iNationals event is shaping up to be an intriguing weekend of open-wheel excitement.

Notable names and entries remain steady, with a multitude of drivers already registered and awaiting the racing weekend.

Recently-crowned POWRi National Midget League rookie-of-the-year Trey Gropp, of Lincoln, Neb., hopes to relay his POWRi National and West Midget League accomplishments into simulated successes.

Past POWRi iRacing feature winner Brennan Rogers, of Camarillo, Calif., remains another driver to watch after claiming several wins in the six-week POWRi midget virtual season.

POWRi Micro and open-wheel standout Bryant Wiedeman, from Colby, Kan., continues to climb the ranks of the racing world and looks for the iNationals to be the event that solidifies his front-running ways.

Digital competitors in the inaugural POWRi Midget iNationals presented by LSRTV on Dec. 11-12 will compete in open setup specifications, with a single fast repair available.

World of Thunder rules and the iRacing Sporting Code will be in full effect.

The race format will feature a two-lap qualifying session, six-lap heat races, a 10-lap D Main, a 12-lap C Main, a 14-lap B Main and a 40-lap A Main.

One of the highest iRacing midget payouts of the year will see $6,000 in total earnings on the line, based on a 120-driver entry format. Beast Racing is also offering a Fast Time Award to the fastest driver during qualifying.

The A-Main payout will award $1,000 to the winner, $850 to the runner-up, $750 to third, $500 to fifth and $100 to start the main event.

Non-qualifiers will also be in contention for prize money, as the top three finishing drivers that do not advance into the feature event will each receive $75.

Those wishing to watch the action Dec. 11-12 will be able to do so through both the POWRi TV Facebook page and Live Sim Racing TV.

Didier Deschamps' weekends have become really tricky in 2020. The France head coach wants to watch as many of his players featuring for their clubs every Saturday or Sunday, but the problem is that there are too many contenders now to make the squad that he and his assistants are struggling to watch everyone! They have to settle for highlight reels at times, though they do try to catch as much action as possible every weekend.

At a time when so many of the world's best national teams are in a state of flux, Deschamps knows how much of a luxury the depth of his France squad is. France have so much talent that, on top of being the current World Champions, they're the natural favourites for Euro 2020. There's certainly a feeling right now within the French set-up and the local media that Les Bleus have a unique opportunity to build a football dynasty, one that could do even better than the great 1998-2000 generation and even emulate Spain's domination from 2008 to 2012.

France, who face Portugal on Saturday in the Nations League -- stream LIVE, 2:45 p.m. ET, on ESPN+ (U.S. only) -- have all the cards in hands to build on their 2018 World Cup success.

Two years ago in Russia, France boasted the second-youngest squad in the competition with an average player age of 25.6 years, just behind Nigeria (25.5). Only Brazil in 1970 won the World Cup with a younger overall team. Some players weren't in their prime -- far from it, even -- like Kylian Mbappe or Presnel Kimpembe. Going forward, they will get stronger individually and collectively, more experienced, more mature, more used to winning as well.

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The defeat in the Euro 2016 final against Portugal was a big learning curve for Deschamps and his players. They took a lot of positives with them on the road to 2018, working tirelessly on the things that didn't go well like their defensive solidity, game management and a lack of tactical versatility. At the end of 2020, France have more tactical tools than perhaps ever before. Deschamps has plenty of options: in the past 18 months, they have played in a flat 4-4-2, in a diamond 4-4-2, in a 4-3-3, in a 3-4-3, in a 3-4-1-2. Not one position -- apart from right-back, perhaps, with just Benjamin Pavard and Leo Dubois -- is not stacked with plenty of competition for places.

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Deschamps is very intelligent and has always been opportunistic. When he took over from Laurent Blanc in 2012, he didn't inherit a very talented squad. Les Bleus were in fact average at the time, apart from the likes of Karim Benzema, Franck Ribery and Hugo Lloris. Yet it wasn't a problem for the new head coach; if anything, it gave him a blank slate upon which to build his team and his squad like he wanted. And he was very much aware of the potential of the players in the France youth set-up at the time.

The talent pool about to come through was exceptional. Back then, France had a wonderful U19 generation ready to shine. A year later, in 2013, they won the U20 World Cup and six years later, five of them won the real World Cup with Deschamps: Paul Pogba, Raphael Varane (although he missed out in 2013 through injury), Samuel Umtiti, Florian Thauvin and Alphonse Areola. That same summer in 2013, the U19s reached the final of the Euros with Benjamin Mendy, Anthony Martial, Adrien Rabiot and Aymeric Laporte. Deschamps was monitoring both competitions, even attending some matches, and he knew the next generations further down were pretty good too.

Among the U17 squad that was crowned European champions in 2015, Dayot Upamecano was the leader. In the U19 squad crowned European champions in 2016, France had a certain Mbappe in attack -- Deschamps already had an eye on him, tipped by people at his former club Monaco that the Parisian was something really special. Marcus Thuram was also in that team. In the previous U19 team, Kingsley Coman, Lucas Hernandez and Pavard also played their part for a successful squad.

The list goes on.

France were (and still are) stacked with talent in every age group, in every position, but they needed a coach who would actually bring the young stars through to the senior side. Deschamps is very good for that. His man-management skills are fantastic. Thanks to his past as a very successful player, his bonhomie and his sociable attitude, the players trust him. Equally, he knows how to put them in the best environment to succeed. Since 2012, he has handed a France debut to a remarkable 53 players! That's an incredible amount, and is also indicative of the depth at his disposal. The latest capped players include Eduardo Camavinga (18 years old), Upamecano (22) and Houssem Aouar (22).

Even after handing out all these debuts, Deschamps still has more players available to him. Look at the France U21 squad this month: there's Aouar and Upamecano, plus Jules Koundé, who has been fantastic with Sevilla and has yet to join the A squad, and Wesley Fofana, who has been superb in Leicester's defense whenever called upon. Moussa Diaby (Bayer Leverkusen) and Amine Gouiri (Nice) could soon be part of it as well.

Again, the list goes on and if you only looked at the centre-back position, it's even more impressive. Going through the years: Varane and Umtiti (born in 1993), Aymeric Laporte and Kurt Zouma (1994), Kimpembe and Clement Lenglet (1995), Hernandez, Pavard and Abdou Diallo (1996), Koundé and Upamecano (1998), Ibrahim Konate, Dan-Axel Zagadou, Malang Sarr, Evan N'Dicka, Boubacar Kamara and Jean-Clair Todibo (1999), Fofana (2000), William Saliba and Benoit Badiashile (2001), plus Tanguy Kouassi (2002).

Deschamps is under contract until 2022 and the World Cup in Qatar. If things go well, he could even stay longer, until Euro 2024. He will still only be 56 if he extends his deal and given what he's achieved already, he has a great opportunity to do even better.

Deschamps and his staff are already deep into planning for next summer's rescheduled Euros, but he knows how bright the future is. The pressure will be high with the talent he has although he is not getting carried away. Wednesday's 2-0 friendly defeat at the Stade de France against Finland showed that there is no room for complacency and that there's still plenty of work to be done. But Deschamps expects his players to go from strength to strength between now and the Euros, as well as over the years and tournaments to come.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Giants wide receiver Golden Tate apologized to the team last week and took full responsibility for self-described "unacceptable" behavior that got him benched for last week's game against the Washington Football Team.

Tate, speaking for the first time since yelling "Throw me the ball!" into the camera following a late touchdown in a Monday night loss to Tampa Bay and liking a tweet asking the Giants to cut him, was contrite Friday as he answered a barrage of questions about a rocky 11 days and season. He said his intentions were not to try to get himself traded prior to last week's deadline as his role with the team continued to shrink.

"If you know me, if you know my game, I play with a lot of emotion. A lot of passion," Tate said. "I just got caught up in the moment. I was wrong to draw attention to myself. I take full responsibility for that. I handled it the wrong way and, again, brought negative attention to our organization. It was something that won't happen again."

Coach Joe Judge had Tate working with the scout team as a result of his actions last week. He did not make the trip with the team to Washington.

The two met last week in what Tate considered a productive meeting where they came up with solutions for the betterment of the team. That apparently included the benching.

"I was definitely disappointed, but there are consequences for your actions," Tate said. "My actions were unacceptable and I apologized to the team, GM, the coaches, the offense and I'm excited to move forward.

"But I did have fun on scout team. That was fun. I enjoyed it. Got a chance to make some plays and get the defense ready. I enjoyed it."

Tate, 32, signed a four-year, $37 million deal last year, the headline free-agent acquisition of the Giants' offseason as they tried to fill the void created by the trade of Odell Beckham Jr. to the Cleveland Browns.

Tate has just 22 catches on 29 targets for 226 yards with two touchdowns this season with a reduced role. He had been playing just over 50% of the offensive snaps the past few weeks prior to his benching.

The Giants were open to trading Tate at the deadline, but he isn't going anywhere now and has two years remaining on his contract.

"I plan to honor my contract the best I possibly can," Tate said. "Like I said earlier, I want to be here. I love this organization, what it represents and the direction we're headed in and hopefully I'm a part of it."

Judge had said earlier in the week that the intention was to have Tate back on the field Sunday against Philadelphia. That was before he popped up on the injury report Thursday with a knee injury.

Tate practiced Friday and Judge said prior to the practice that he was "optimistic" about his prospects for this week. The former Pro Bowl receiver seemed to be moving well.

It has been quite the eventful season for Tate. He missed the opener with a hamstring injury suffered during training camp, fought Jalen Ramsey (the father of his nieces) at midfield following a game in Week 4 and expressed his displeasure with his role in front of a national audience earlier this month against the Bucs.

The situation was exacerbated by his wife posting an Instagram story where she vented about his lack of opportunities. The post was later deleted.

"I wasn't aware at the time that it happened that she had said anything," Tate said. "But in my wife's defense, she is, and will always be my biggest fan. I disagree with her taking it public, but that is one thing: I'll always have her back and I know she was, in her mind, protecting me and she was calling it as she saw it at the time without having talked to me and understood what had happened prior to that.

"It's unfortunate that we drew, collectively, this type of attention to our organization when we're trying to win a ballgame. For that, I felt the need to apologize to this entire organization for drawing that negative attention, for one, and also my body language on the field. From here on, we don't ever have to worry about that ever again."

Kim Ng became the first female general manager in Major League Baseball history on Friday, when she was hired by the Miami Marlins.

The 51-year-old's resume tells the story of a baseball lifer who has been an integral part of the sport for three decades.

Here are five things to know about Ng (pronounced Ang).

She's not only the first female GM in MLB history, but the first Asian American GM

Ng's father, Jin, who died when she was 11, was American-born and of Chinese descent. Her mother, Virginia, was born in Thailand and also of Chinese descent. While Ng's qualifications were clear, it took until Friday for her to break two significant barriers. Systemic racism in the sport reared its ugly head in a very public way in 2003, when New York Mets special assistant Bill Singer directed racist remarks at Ng during the general managers meetings in Arizona. At the time, Ng was the Los Angeles Dodgers' assistant general manager; Singer was fired for mocking her ancestry.

Adding to what makes her hiring so historic: She becomes not only the first female GM in MLB history, but the first for any team in American men's professional sports.

Early in her career, she went up against superagent Scott Boras -- and won

After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1990, she was hired as an intern by the Chicago White Sox. She began with typical entry-level tasks, like operating the radar gun and charting pitches. By 1996, she had developed a reputation as a negotiator and moved up the chain in the organization. That year, she became the first woman to present -- and then win -- an arbitration case, facing off with Boras over pitcher Alex Fernandez.

She grew up a Yankees fan in Queens

Ng was born in Indianapolis, but attended elementary school in Queens and high school in New Jersey. She learned the game by playing stickball in the street and was later a star shortstop on the University of Chicago's softball team. Her favorite player growing up? Yankees catcher and captain Thurman Munson. As Ng told ESPN in 2015 she rooted for Munson because "he was an incredibly gritty player" and she still has the scrapbooks she made from newspaper clippings about Munson's untimely death in a 1979 plane crash.

Her relationship with Marlins CEO Derek Jeter goes back more than 20 years

Yankees GM Brian Cashman hired Ng as an assistant GM in 1998, when she was just 29 years old. During her four years with the club, the Yankees won three World Series titles and four American League pennants. Among her accomplishments: Successfully negotiating contracts with Paul O'Neill, Mariano Rivera and then-shortstop Derek Jeter.

"I was truly excited for Kim when I learned that she had been named general manager of the Miami Marlins," Cashman said in a statement Friday. "It is wonderful seeing people accomplish their stated goals, and this has been a dream of hers for as long as I've known her. As assistant general manager with the Yankees, she was indispensable to me when I first began my tenure as the GM. Kim was a tireless and dedicated executive back then, and in the ensuing years, she has ceaselessly added to her skill set to maximize her talent. She will provide the Marlins with vast experience and institutional knowledge along with a calm demeanor and an amazing ability to connect with others - all of which will serve her well in her new leadership role as head of baseball operations. I offer my congratulations to her and to the Marlins organization."

She's been in the conversation for GM jobs for more than a decade

Before finally landing the gig in Miami, Ng had interviewed for an MLB GM job more than a half-dozen times since 2005, including with the Phillies, Mets, Giants, Dodgers, Mariners and Padres. And whenever the question, "Who will be the first female GM in MLB history?" was asked, her name typically was on the top of the list. But though she wanted the job, being first was never how she defined herself amid her many accomplishments in the sport.

"At the end of the day, if this doesn't happen, I'm not going to see it as, 'My career was a failure,'" she told The University of Chicago Magazine. "That might be other peoples' take, but that's not mine. I know how hard it is. I know about all the guys who didn't even get an interview who probably should have had an interview. I've been very fortunate. I've worked extraordinarily hard to get where I am. If I don't end up becoming a general manager, that's just the luck of the draw. I've had a great career regardless."

Kenya’s 2017 world 1500m champion set to miss Tokyo Olympics after “whereabouts failures”

The 2017 world 1500m champion Elijah Manangoi has been handed a two-year ban for “whereabouts failures” after the Kenyan missed three anti-doping tests within a 12-month period.

Under World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules, athletes are required to submit their whereabouts for one hour every day, plus overnight accommodation and training information, in case they are needed for out-of-competition testing.

An athlete is said to have violated anti-doping rules if they have any combination of three missed tests or filing failures within a 12-month period, starting on the day of the first relevant missed test or filing failure.

According to the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) decision document, which can be found here, Manangoi missed tests on July 3, November 12 and December 22 in 2019, with the athlete’s explanations for those missed tests including delayed luggage after a flight which left him with no house keys, heavy traffic at 5-6am after working a night shift for the Kenyan Police and a mistake by a delegate logging his whereabouts information on his behalf.

Full details of the whereabouts failures, Manangoi’s explanations and the sanction can be found here.

His ban has been backdated to start on December 22, 2019, which is the date of the third whereabouts failure.

Manangoi was provisionally suspended in July and at that time, according to the BBC, Manangoi posted a response on his Facebook page, stating: “News of my suspension by the AIU for three missed tests is really devastating for me and I’m trying to get my head round it.

“What I can say is each of the missed tests happened during 2019, my case has nothing to do with prohibited substances and I’ve always competed as a clean athlete.”

Manangoi claimed world 1500m silver in Beijing in 2015, two years before his gold medal win in London ahead of Timothy Cheruiyot, Filip Ingebrigtsen and Adel Mechaal, but he did not defend his title in Doha last year due to injury.

He also won the 2018 Commonwealth 1500m title on the Gold Coast ahead of Cheruiyot, Jake Wightman and Charlie Grice.