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Today’s sports broadcast highlights Tuesday’s Television • Tennis: ATP Pune/ATP Montpelier, 5 a.m., Tennis (Comcast 277) • Hockey: CHL: Tappara Tampere at Red Bull Munich, 11 a.m., NHLN (276) • Tennis: ATP Montpelier, 12:30 p.m., Tennis (Comcast 277) • College basketball: Boston College at Virginia, 5 p.m., ACCN (961) • College basketball: Creighton at Connecticut, 5:30 p.m., FS1 (43) • College basketball: Kansas at Iowa State, 6 p.m., ESPN (13) • College basketball: Michigan State at • College basketball: Michigan State at Maryland, 6 p.m., ESPN2 (29) • College basketball: Rutgers at Northwestern, 6 p.m., BTN (255) • College basketball: South Carolina at Mississippi State, 6 p.m., ESPNU (269) • College basketball: Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 6 p.m., CBSSN (274) • College basketball: Texas A&M at Tennessee, 6 p.m., SECN (284) • NBA: Washington at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m., TNT (51) • College basketball: North Carolina at Louisville, 7 p.m., ACCN (961) • College basketball: Seton Hall at Georgetown, 7:30 p.m., FS1 (43) • College basketball: Alabama at Auburn, 8 p.m., ESPN (13) • College basketball: Texas at Texas Tech, 8 p.m., ESPN2 (29) • College basketball: Nebraska at Michigan, 8 p.m., BTN (255) • College basketball: Tulsa at Wichita State, 8 p.m., ESPNU (269) • College basketball: Providence at St.

AREA SPORTS CALENDAR (Schedules subject to change) TUESDAY, FEB. 1 ECHL MINOR LEAGUE HOCKEY 7:05 p.m.

After more than two months of continuing increases, leading to pandemic highs, new COVID-19 cases in the area have started to decrease. According to the Jackson County According to the Jackson County Health Department's dashboard, the case rate Monday in Eastern Jackson County – the county outside of Kansas City and Independence – was at 787 per 100,000 in population over seven days, down from 1,200-plus the past two weeks.

BEIJING — Beijing 2022 organizers reported 71 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend, bringing the total to almost 250 cases linked to the Winter Olympics as the opening ceremony nears. According to data released by the local organizing committee on Monday, 28 of the weekend’s cases involved athletes or team officials, while 20 were detected by screening tests inside the “closed-loop system” – the bubble that organizers have created to separate Games participants from normal Chinese society.

The Kansas City Mavericks return home after a disappointing 0-3 road trip to Idaho, following a 9-4 loss Wednesday, 4-1 loss Friday and 3-2 setback on Saturday. With the losses to the Steelheads, the 18-21-1-0 Mavericks now have 37 points and have dropped into sixth place in the ECHL’s Mountain Division, 10 points behind fourth-place Rapid City and two behind fifth-place Allen.

Superintendent Dale Herl said the lawsuit threats by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt did not enter into the equation when the Independence School District decided a couple of weeks ago to reinstate a mask mandate for students and staff.

Two weeks after a Cole County judge stripped local health agencies of their ability to issue orders to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a top official in the state health department predicted the impact would be much more farreaching.