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This most unusual NFL season kicks off with the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs facing the Houston Texans before about 17,000 fans at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night.

Travis Kelce, Sammy Watkins and Tyreek Hill each caught TD passes for the Chiefs.

The Chiefs are among five franchises that have been given the green light to have fans in person.

Arkansas begins its 2020 football season September 26 at home against Georgia.

Petrino has a 119-56 career college record in 14 seasons at Louisville, Arkansas and Western Kentucky. He looks forward to helping the Bears bounce back from a 1-10 finish last season.

Lopez singled three times and Kansas City teammates Whit Merrifield and Olivares had two hits apiece.

Kansas City Chiefs lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif will spend the next few months studying at one of the world’s most prestigious universities instead of playing football.

The Chiefs are among a handful of teams that have been cleared by local and state authorities to have fans for Week 1, but the number was capped at 22% of capacity.

The two-game series between Minnesota and St. Louis was condensed to one day so the Cardinals could have one more day off before the end of the season, with a backlog of makeup games this month.

Whit Merrifield hit a three-run homer and Cam Gallagher had an RBI double for Kansas City, which had been outscored 51-18 and only held the lead after one inning in losing its first seven games in September.

After winning first Super Bowl in 50 years last season, the Kansas City Chiefs hope to make it a short wait for a third title in franchise history.

The defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs and the Texans, whom they beat in the divisional round of the playoffs, know that all eyes will be on them as they kick off the season with a Thursday night showdown at Arrowhead Stadium.

Johan Oviedo (0-2) went 4 2/3 innings in his fourth major league start, allowing three earned runs and eight hits.

Kansas City made two errors and Mondesi provided the only real highlight with the longest homer of his career, a shot that cleared the lower seats in right.

Molina is batting .276 after going 0 for 2 on Monday.

The NBA bubble has held. So has the NHL’s double bubble. The WNBA and MLS, no leaks.

The longtime rivals have one game left in their pandemic-shortened season series on Monday.

Harvick had to hold off a hard-charging Austin Dillon, a driver few predict will advance very far into the playoffs, to seal the victory in his Ford for Stewart-Haas Racing.

Royals starter Matt Harvey (0-3) was yanked after throwing 40 pitches. He went 2 1/3 innings, allowing four hits and one run.

Brock broke ty Cobb’s Major League Baseball record of 892 stolen bases in 1977.

The St. Louis Cardinals sweep a doubleheader with the Chicago Cubs on Saturday at Wrigley Field.

The Kansas City Chiefs are content to defend their Super Bowl title largely with the team that won it.

Tiz the Law got close entering the stretch before Authentic pulled away to win the race run without spectators at Churchill Downs.

The second week of the high school football season is here!

Tom Seaver, the galvanizing leader of the Miracle Mets 1969 championship team and a pitcher who personified the rise of expansion teams during an era of radical change for baseball, has died. He was 75.

The Hartville Eagles will replace Philadelphia Roman Catholic as one of eight teams in the annual high school hoops tournament in Springfield.

The St. Louis Blues traded goaltender Jake Allen to the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday in a move that clears valuable salary cap space to try to keep their Stanley Cup-winning captain.

On the day Patrick Mahomes received his Super Bowl ring, he added another ring. The Chiefs star quarterback proposed to girlfriend Brittany Matthews.

Pittman opens the season against his old boss. He served on Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s staff each of the last four seasons after coaching the Razorbacks’ offensive line for three seasons from 2013-15.

Indeed, the biggest reason the Chiefs are among the most progressive teams in the NFL these days — during a new era of social justice initiatives — is that the reigning Super Bowl champions always have been that way.