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UNDATED (AP) — For millions of college football fans, couch potato Saturdays begin with ESPN’s “College GameDay.” The COVID-19 pandemic has put those fall college football Saturdays in peril. But ESPN's Lee Fitting says if the season can be salvaged, there will be “GameDay.” Fitting oversees all the network's college studio shows and remote programs. He says the show this year might not look like the same traveling circus fans have become accustomed to over nearly three decades. Lee Corso’s signature selection at the end of the show could be done from his home in central Florida, with the 84-year-old former coach donning a baseball cap instead of a mascot head.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook and Dave Roberts highlight the latest class for UCLA’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Love was in Westwood for only one season but led the Bruins to the Final Four in 2008. He posted 23 double-doubles as he was named a first-team All-America. Westbrook was part of two Final Four squads while leading the Bruins in assists and steals in 2008. Roberts remains UCLA’s career leader in stolen bases and set a single-season record with 45 in 1994. Roberts is now entering his fifth season managing the Los Angeles Dodgers,
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A key member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 1979 team that reached the NFC title game has died at 65. David Lewis died in Tampa. The cause was not immediately known but USC said he had struggled with health issues in recent years. Lewis played college ball at USC. He was also among the defensive stars on the 1979 Buccaneers team that reached the NFC title game, capping the franchise’s “worst to first” transformation. The Bucs won 10 games that year after having won just seven in the franchise’s previous three seasons.
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