Reports: NBA to Resume Playoffs

thomas.umstead@futurenet.com (R. Thomas Umstead) — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:17:49 +0000

The National Basketball Association will look to resume its post-season this weekend after postponing games Wednesday night in protest of the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, according to ESPN.com

It’s unclear when playoff games will resume -- the league has three games scheduled Thursday night -- but players met Thursday morning in Orlando where the games are being played and voted to continue its post-season schedule, ESPN reported.

The website also reported a second meeting is scheduled Thursday afternoon to formulate action plans to address racial injustice issues and iron out details of restarting the postseason, with games airing on ESPN, ABC, TNT and NBATV.

Along with the three postseason NBA games, three Major League Baseball games, three WNBA games and five Major League Soccer games were postponed Wednesday night in protest over the Blake shooting.

USA Postpones ‘Shooter’ Until Fall

thomas.umstead@futurenet.com (R. Thomas Umstead) — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:32:00 +0000

USA Network has once again postponed the premiere of its drama series Shooter after Sunday’s horrific police shooting in Baton Rouge.

The series was supposed to debut July 26 after the network last Monday postponed the show’s initial July 19 premiere due to the July 7 police shootings in Dallas. USA said in a statement Monday that it would push the debut of the series to the fall after Sunday’s police shootings.

“After further consideration, USA Network, Paramount TV and Universal Cable Productions have decided to move the premiere of Shooter to the fall,” the network said.

The series, based on the 2007 movie of the same name starring Mark Wahlberg, follows a US veteran and hero who is wrongly accused of a crime, and is trying to clear his name and return to his family.

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