National Sports

MELBOURNE, Australia — As thousands of fans queued to get into the Australian Grand Prix for the first Formula One weekend of the season, the teams and drivers were packing up to leave.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The Players Championship went from having no fans to having no players.

The men's and women's Canadian university hockey championships were cancelled Thursday night due to the COVID-19 pandemic. U Sports announced the cancellation after two quarterfinal games had been played on both the men's and women's sides.

Going a week without watching sports used to be a dare. It’s the new reality. A quick glance at today’s TV sports listings provides all the confirmation you need. It looks like the departure screen at the airport during a blizzard: Cancelled .

NEW YORK — Baltimore slugger Chris Davis was driving down Florida's west coast on Interstate 75 from Sarasota to Fort Myers for an exhibition game against the Minnesota Twins when he got the call. No game tonight. No games for a while.

HALIFAX — The seventh-seeded Western Mustangs upset the No. 2 Saskatchewan Huskies 3-2 in the opening quarterfinal at the U Sports men's hockey championship on Thursday.

Calgary Flames executive Ken King has died at 68 after guiding the organization through several defining moments. King, from Hanley, Sask., was vice-chair of Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation, which owns the Flames.

NHL arenas will be dark for the foreseeable future.

NEW YORK — The NBA 2K League is postponing the start of its 2020 esports season due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The 23-team league, which includes Raptors Uprising GC, had been scheduled to tip off March 24.

UEFA is nearing a decision to postpone the European Championship by a year to 2021 as the continent grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday.