2020 All-Ireland Under-20 Hurling Championship Final
Dublin responded when Liam Murphy scored his fifth point, goalkeeper Eddie Gibbons landed a long-range free and then Dara Purcell had his fourth to make it 2–18 to 0–17. Then, when Dublin won a 20m free, Gibbons' shot was stopped on the Cork line but substitute Luke McDwyer scored on the rebound and four points was the difference again as the game entered injury time. Jack Cahalane had a Cork point which was quickly nullified by Murphy, however, Cork secured the title with a 2–19 to 1–18 win.


2020 All-Ireland Under-20 Hurling Championship Final
Cork's All-Ireland victory was their first in 22 years. The win gave them their 12th All-Ireland title overall and put them in first position on the all-time roll of honour.


2020 All-Pro Team
The 2020 All-Pro teams were named by the Associated Press (AP), Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA), and Sporting News (SN) for performance in the 2020 NFL season. Any player selected to the first-team of any of the teams can be described as an "All-Pro." The AP team, with first-team and second-team selections, was chosen by a national panel of fifty NFL writers and broadcasters. The Sporting News All-NFL team was voted on by NFL players and executives. The PFWA team is selected by its more than 300 national members who are accredited media members covering the NFL.


2020 All-Pro Team
For the 2020 vote, the AP removed the offensive "flex" position that had been added to the ballot in 2016, and instead added a third wide receiver to the ballot.


2020 All-SEC football team
The 2020 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by the Associated Press (AP) and the conference coaches for the 2020 Southeastern Conference football season.


2020 All-SEC football team
Alabama won the conference, beating Florida 52–46 in the SEC Championship.


2020 All-SEC football team
Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith was voted the SEC Offensive Player of the Year (AP and Coaches). Alabama defensive back Patrick Surtain II was voted the SEC Defensive Player of the Year (AP and Coaches). Georgia punter Jake Camarda was voted SEC Special Teams Player of the Year (Coaches). Auburn running back Tank Bigsby was voted SEC Newcomer/Freshman of the Year (AP and Coaches), with Missouri quarterback Connor Bazelak sharing the honor from the Coaches vote. Nick Saban of Alabama was voted SEC Coach of the Year (AP and Coaches) for the fifth time.


2020 All-SEC football team, Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both the coaches and AP


2020 Allsvenskan
The 2020 Allsvenskan, part of the 2020 Swedish football season, was the 96th season of Allsvenskan since its establishment in 1924. A total of 16 teams participated. Djurgårdens IF were the defending champions after winning the title in the previous season.


2020 Allsvenskan
The 2020 Allsvenskan season was scheduled to begin on 4 April and end on 8 November 2020 (not including play-off matches), but due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden the opening games of the season were delayed. On 4 June 2020, the Swedish government and the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced that the travel restrictions within Sweden were lifted. There were therefore no restrictions that were prohibiting resuming league play in Sweden and the Swedish Football Association announced, also on 4 June 2020, that the 2020 Allsvenskan season would resume on 14 June 2020.


2020 Allsvenskan
Malmö FF won the Swedish championship this season, their 24th Allsvenskan title and 21st Swedish championship overall, in the 27th round on 8 November 2020 when they won 4–0 against IK Sirius at home.


2020 Allsvenskan, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
The season was scheduled to begin on 4 April, but was postponed indefinitely on 19 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. On 17 April, a target start date of 14 June was established for the competition by chairman of the Swedish Football Association, Karl-Erik Nilsson. It was initially speculated that matches would not be played behind closed doors, as the country had not gone into lockdown like other European countries at the time.


2020 Allsvenskan, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
The guidelines and rules issued by the Swedish government and the Public Health Agency of Sweden did however prevent a start of the 2020 Allsvenskan, as they advised against all non-essential travel within Sweden, which would limit the possibilities of Allsvenskan teams to travel to the Allsvenskan games. On 4 June 2020, it was announced that the Swedish travel restrictions were lifted and there were therefore no restrictions preventing Allsvenskan to resume play. The Swedish Football Association accordingly announced, also on 4 June 2020, that the 2020 Allsvenskan season would commence on 14 June 2020.


2020 Allsvenskan, Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
New guidelines regarding league play were issued on 8 June 2020, which detailed that due to the ban on gathering of more than 50 people in Sweden, all games were to be played without any attendance. Other guidelines included that no players with symptoms were allowed to travel or play and that the travel option with the most limited number of social contacts should be used (which means bus travel for the majority of teams).


2020 Allsvenskan, Teams
A total of sixteen teams are contesting the league, including fourteen sides from the previous season, and two promoted teams from the 2019 Superettan.


2020 Allsvenskan, Teams
GIF Sundsvall and AFC Eskilstuna were relegated at the end of the 2019 season after finishing at the bottom two places of the table, and were replaced by the 2019 Superettan champions Mjällby AIF and runners-up Varbergs BoIS.


2020 Allsvenskan, Teams, Personnel and kits
All teams are obligated to have the logo of the league sponsor Unibet as well as the Allsvenskan logo on the right sleeve of their shirt.


2020 Allsvenskan, Teams, Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 Allsvenskan, Relegation play-offs
The 14th-placed team of Allsvenskan met the third-placed team from 2020 Superettan in a two-legged tie on a home-and-away basis with the team from Allsvenskan finishing at home.


2020 Alpine Elf Europa Cup
The 2020 Alpine Elf Europa Cup is the third season of the Alpine Elf Europa Cup, the one-make sports car racing series organized by Alpine for Alpine A110 Cup cars. It began on 22 August at Nogaro will finish on 1 November at Portimão, after 1 triple-header and 3 double-header meetings.


2020 Alpine Elf Europa Cup, Race calendar and results
The 2020 calendar was released at the end of season awards ceremony for the 2019 season. The series will be traveling to Misano and Portimão for the first time with the latter also becoming the new season finale. The rounds at Hockenheimring and Silverstone have been dropped while Barcelona, and Le Castellet have new dates. On 10 March 2020, the French government banned gatherings of more than 1000 people in response to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, the Nogaro round has been moved to July.


2020 Alpine Elf Europa Cup, Race calendar and results
On 27 April 2020, the final calendar was released consisting of four rounds, down from the planned six, and a dramatically changed schedule primarily focused around France with the exception of the final round at Portimão. With this new schedule, the series traveled to Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours for the first time. The series also utilized a three race format for some rounds.


2020 Alpine Elf Europa Cup, Championship Standings, Drivers' Championship
Points are awarded to the top 20 drivers. If less than 75% of the race distance is completed then half points are awarded. If less than two laps are completed then no points are given.


2020 Alpine Elf Europa Cup, Championship Standings, Drivers' Championship
†Half points were awarded for the first race at Portimão because the race had to be red-flagged due to an accident and so completed less than 75% of the scheduled distance.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Combined
The Men's Combined World Cup 2019/2020 involved 3 events, all of which were completed before the season was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A major change was made in the discipline this season due to the recent dominance of slalom specialists in the combined over speed racers (downhill/Super G). As was previously the case, the first run continued to be the speed discipline (with Super-G having the preference over downhill).


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Combined
The second run (the slalom) then started in reverse order of finish in the speed run, which allowed the slalom specialists (who tended to be significantly slower in the speed run) to tackle fresh snow as the first down the hill in the slalom run, while the speed specialists had to face the more challenging rutted snow at the end of the day, as the last skiers of the 30 who qualified for the second run. Instead, the second run was changed to start in the same order as the finish of the speed run, so that the leader after the speed run became the first to race on the fresh slalom course.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Combined
Two of the three events were won by Alexis Pinturault of France, the only skier this season who ranked in the top ten in both Super-G and slalom, who thus won the season championship. At this time, combined races were not included in the season finals, which were scheduled in 2020 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy (but were not held due to the pandemic).


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill
The Men's Downhill World Cup 2019/2020 involved nine events. Swiss skier Beat Feuz won his third consecutive season title in this discipline, clinching the title with one race to go by finishing fourth at Kvitfjell. However, the final, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, 18 March in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Giant Slalom
The Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 2019/2020 involved seven events. Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway was clinging to a six-point lead for the season championship in this discipline over Alexis Pinturault of France when the final two giant slaloms of the season, including the finale scheduled for Cortina d'Ampezzo, were cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellations handed the season title in giant slalom (as well as the title in slalom) to Kristoffersen without the expected showdown.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Overall
The Men's Overall World Cup 2019/2020 involved 36 events in 6 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL), Alpine combined (AC), and parallel (PAR). A new champion was certain to be crowned, as Marcel Hirscher of Austria, the winner of the previous 8 World Cup overall titles, had retired at the end of the 2019 season, and all winners prior to him had also retired. The season was terminated with six events still to be run due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Overall
The last event completed prior to the premature shutdown was a downhill at Kvitfjell, and in that race, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway grabbed the overall lead from French skier Alexis Pinturault. When the season suddenly ended after that race, Kilde clinched the overall season championship and the crystal globe that goes with it.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Parallel
The Men's Parallel World Cup 2019/2020 was contested as a World Cup discipline separate from slalom for the first time in 2020. Prior to the season, FIS decided to combine parallel skiing events (including all of parallel giant slalom, parallel slalom, and city events (parallel slaloms held on courses built within cities)) into a new discipline, joining the existing disciplines of downhill, Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and combined. The discipline winner would receive a small crystal globe, similar to the other disciplines. However, at the same time, FIS decided to drop the city events to reduce the amount of travel required during the World Cup season, planning to replace them with more parallel events at regular venues.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Parallel
The parallel format was also changed to make the race more TV-friendly. Parallel races now began with one classic qualification run to determine the top 32, who advanced to the elimination phase of the main competition. The round of 32 used the existing run and re-run format, so that each competitor got to start from each side, but from the round of 16 forward, there was only one run per race and a direct knockout system—the loser of each race was gone.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Parallel
However, the new format immediately became controversial, as making two giant slalom courses equal in a single-run format proved close to impossible, and the first men's parallel giant slalom races suffered from "the luck of the draw" becoming determinative: all eight round-of-16 matches were won by the racer on the same randomly-selected course.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Parallel
Ultimately, only two parallel events, both parallel giant slaloms, were held in the 2019–20 season. Swiss skier Loïc Meillard won the second event and also won the first-ever discipline championship for men in parallel. At this time, individual parallel races were not included in the season finals, which were scheduled in 2020 for Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy but were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Slalom
The Men's Slalom World Cup 2019/2020 involved nine events. Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway was clinging to a two-point lead for the season championship in this discipline over Clément Noël of France -- for about a month with no races in the discipline -- when the final two giant slaloms of the season, including the finale scheduled for Cortina d'Ampezzo, were cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellations handed the season title in slalom (as well as the title in giant slalom) to Kristoffersen without the expected showdown.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Super-G
The Men's Super-G World Cup 2019/2020 involved six events. Swiss skier Mauro Caviezel won the crystal globe in this specialty for the season. With two events to go, Caviezel was clinging to a narrow three-point lead over Austrian skier Vincent Kriechmayr, with several other skiers in close pursuit. However, the next-to-last Super-G of the season at Kvitfjell was cancelled due to bad weather, and the finals were also cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thus handing the season title to Caviezel without the expected showdown.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Combined
The Women's Combined World Cup 2019/2020 involved 2 events, although 4 had been scheduled. Two of the races were cancelled due to heavy snowfall and the challenge in rescheduling during the COVID-19 pandemic. A major change was made in the discipline this season due to the recent dominance of slalom specialists in the combined over speed racers (downhill/Super G). As was previously the case, the first run continued to be the speed discipline (with Super-G having the preference over downhill).


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Combined
The second run (the slalom) then started in reverse order of finish in the speed run, which allowed the slalom specialists (who tended to be significantly slower in the speed run) to tackle fresh snow as the first down the hill in the slalom run, while the speed specialists had to face the more challenging rutted snow at the end of the day, as the last skiers of the 30 who qualified for the second run. Instead, the second run was changed to start in the same order as the finish of the speed run, so that the leader after the speed run became the first to race on the fresh slalom course.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Combined
Both of the races held were won by Federica Brignone of Italy, who thus won the season championship. At this time, combined races were not included in the season finals, which were scheduled in 2020 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy (but were not held due to the pandemic).


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Downhill
The Women's Downhill World Cup 2019/2020 involved 8 events. Swiss skier Corinne Suter clinched the discipline title for 2020 with just the finals to be completed. Thus, when the finals, scheduled for Wednesday, 18 March in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, downhill was the only discipline championship not affected.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Giant Slalom
The Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 2019/2020 involved 6 events. Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States was second in the very tight discipline standings after 5 events when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February, and Shiffrin missed the remainder of the season.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Giant Slalom
The leader in the standings, Italian skier Federica Brignone held the lead with three events remaining, then won the discipline title for 2020 when all three of those events, including the finals, scheduled for Sunday, 22 March in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, were cancelled -- the first by heavy snowfall and the last two by the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Overall
The Women's Overall World Cup 2019/2020 involved 30 events in 6 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL), Alpine combined (AC), and parallel (PAR). Three-time defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States had established a significant lead when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February, and Shiffrin missed the remainder of the season. After her departure, the two skiers closest to her in the overall standings, Federica Brignone of Italy and Petra Vlhová of Slovakia, competed in every event remaining in the season, regardless of the discipline, in an attempt to pass Shiffrin.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Overall
Brignone grabbed the lead when she won the Alpine combined race in Crans-Montana on 23 February and Vlhová, who had been second-fastest in the Super-G leg, straddled a gate in the slalom and didn't score any points. After just one more race six days later, the season was terminated; none of the final ten events were held due to a combination of bad weather (for the first three) and the COVID-19 pandemic for the remainder. As a result, Brignone became the first Italian woman to ever win the women's overall World Cup championship and the crystal globe that comes with it.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Parallel
The Women's Parallel World Cup 2019/2020 was contested as a World Cup discipline separate from slalom for the first time in 2020. Prior to the season, FIS decided to combine parallel skiing events (including all of parallel giant slalom, parallel slalom, and city events (parallel slaloms held on courses built within cities)) into a new discipline, joining the existing disciplines of downhill, Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and Alpine combined. The discipline winner would receive a small crystal globe, similar to the other disciplines. However, at the same time, FIS decided to drop the city events to reduce the amount of travel required during the World Cup season, planning to replace them with more parallel events at regular venues.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Parallel
The parallel format was also changed to make the race more TV-friendly. Parallel races now began with one classic qualification run to determine the top 32, who advanced to the elimination phase of the main competition. The round of 32 used the existing run and re-run format, so that each competitor got to start from each side, but from the round of 16 forward, there was only one run per race and a direct knockout system—the loser of each race was gone. However, the new format immediately became controversial, as making two giant slalom courses equal in a single-run format proved impossible, and the first women's parallel giant slalom race suffered from "the luck of the draw" becoming determinative—17 of 20 winners came from the same course.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Parallel
Ultimately, only two parallel events, the first a parallel slalom (PS) and the second a parallel giant slalom (PG), were held in the 2019–20 season. Slovakian skier Petra Vlhová won the first event and also won the first-ever discipline championship for women in parallel. At this time, individual parallel races were not included in the season finals, which were scheduled in 2020 for Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy but were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Slalom
The Women's Slalom World Cup 2019/2020 involved 6 events, although there were 9 originally scheduled. Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States was leading the discipline standings by 80 after 5 events when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February, and Shiffrin missed the remainder of the season.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Slalom
Slovakian skier Petra Vlhová won the next event to move 20 points ahead of Shiffrin, and when all of the final three events, including the finals, scheduled for Saturday, 21 March in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, were cancelled -- the first by heavy snowfall and the last two by the COVID-19 pandemic -- Vlhová won the discipline title for the first time.


2020 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Super-G
The Women's Super-G World Cup 2019/2020 involved 6 events. Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States was leading the discipline standings when her father Jeff suffered what proved to be a fatal head injury at the start of February, and Shiffrin missed the remainder of the season. Eventually, Swiss skier Corinne Suter, who held a slim 19-point lead over Federica Brignone of Italy with just the finals remaining, won the discipline title for 2020 when the finals, scheduled for Thursday, 19 March in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.


2020 Alps Tour
The 2020 Alps Tour is the 20th season of the Alps Tour, one of four third-tier tours recognised by the European Tour.


2020 Alps Tour, Schedule
The season starts with a "winter series" featuring five tournaments in Egypt.


2020 Alps Tour, Graduates
The top three players on the Order of Merit earned Challenge Tour status for the 2021 season.


2020 Alsco 300 (Charlotte)
The 2020 Alsco 300 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on May 25, 2020 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 203 laps—extended from 200 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the sixth race of the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season. Cup Series driver Kyle Busch took home his first Xfinity Series victory of the year.


2020 Alsco 300 (Charlotte), Report, Background
The race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is located in Concord, North Carolina. The speedway complex includes a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval track, as well as a dragstrip and a dirt track. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR, as many race teams are based in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI), with Marcus G. Smith serving as track president.


2020 Alsco 300 (Charlotte), Report, Background
The race was held without fans in attendance due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Alsco 300 (Charlotte), Qualifying
Ross Chastain was awarded the pole for the race as determined by a random draw.


2020 Alsco 300 (Charlotte), Media, Television
The Alsco 300 was carried by FS1 in the United States. Adam Alexander, Stewart-Haas Racing driver Clint Bowyer, and Jamie McMurray called the race from the Fox Sports Studio in Charlotte, with Matt Yocum covering pit road.


2020 Alsco 300 (Charlotte), Media, Radio
The Performance Racing Network (PRN) called the race for radio, which was simulcast on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow anchored the action from the booth. Rob Albright called the action from Turns 1 & 2 and Pat Patterson called the race through turns 3 & 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan, and Wendy Venturini provided reports from pit road.


2020 Alsco 300 (Kentucky)
The 2020 Alsco 300 was a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on July 10, 2020 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky. Contested over 200 laps on the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) speedway, it was the 15th race of the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season and the second race in two days at Kentucky. Austin Cindric won at Kentucky for the second straight day.


2020 Alsco 300 (Kentucky), Report, Background
Kentucky Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval speedway in Sparta, Kentucky, which has hosted ARCA, NASCAR and Indy Racing League racing annually since it opened in 2000. The track is currently owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports, Inc. and Jerry Carroll, who, along with four other investors, owned Kentucky Speedway until 2008. The speedway has a grandstand capacity of 117,000. Construction of the speedway began in 1998 and was completed in mid-2000. The speedway has hosted the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, Xfinity Series, IndyCar Series, Indy Lights, and most recently, the NASCAR Cup Series beginning in 2011.


2020 Alsco 300 (Kentucky), Report, Background
The race was held without fans in attendance due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Alsco 300 (Kentucky), Qualifying
Myatt Snider was awarded the pole for the race as determined by the top 15 from Thursday's finishing order inverted.


2020 Alsco 300 (Kentucky), Media, Television
The Alsco 300 was carried by FS1 in the United States. Adam Alexander, Stewart-Haas Racing driver Clint Bowyer, and Chip Ganassi Racing driver  Kurt Busch called the race from the Fox Sports Studio in Charlotte, with Jamie Little covering pit road.


2020 Alsco 300 (Kentucky), Media, Radio
The Performance Racing Network (PRN) called the race for radio, which was simulcast on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.


2020 Alsco Uniforms 500
The 2020 Alsco Uniforms 500 was a NASCAR Cup Series race scheduled to be held on May 27, 2020, but run on May 28, 2020 due to Tropical Depression Bertha at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, replacing Sonoma Raceway event. Contested over 208 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.42 km) asphalt speedway, it was the eighth race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season.


2020 Alsco Uniforms 500
The first two stages were 60 laps each, and the final was 88.


2020 Alsco Uniforms 500, Report, Background
The race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is located in Concord, North Carolina. The speedway complex includes a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval track that will be utilized for the race, as well as a dragstrip and a dirt track. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams based in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) with Marcus G. Smith serving as track president.


2020 Alsco Uniforms 500, Qualifying
William Byron was awarded the pole for the race as determined by the top 20 from Sunday's finishing order inverted.


2020 Alsco Uniforms 500, Media, Television
The Alsco Uniforms 500 was carried by FS1 in the United States. Mike Joy and five-time Charlotte winner Jeff Gordon covered the race from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte. Vince Welch handled the pit road duties. Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.


2020 Alsco Uniforms 500, Media, Radio
Radio coverage of the race was broadcast by the Performance Racing Network (PRN), and was simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice and Mark Garrow called the race in the booth when the field raced through the quad-oval. Rob Albright reported the race from a billboard in turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2 and halfway down the backstretch. Pat Patterson called the race from a billboard outside of turn 3 when the field raced through the other half of the backstretch and through turns 3 and 4. Brad Gillie, Brett McMillan and Wendy Venturini were the pit reporters during the broadcast.


2020 America East Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2020 America East Conference Baseball Tournament was a baseball tournament that was scheduled to be held from May 20 to 23, 2020. The top six teams out of the league's seven members were to meet in the double-elimination tournament held at LeLacheur Park in Lowell, Massachusetts, the home park of UMass Lowell. The tournament champion was to receive the conference's automatic bid into the 2020 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2020 America East Conference Baseball Tournament
On March 12, 2020, the NCAA cancelled all winter and spring sports competitions due to the coronavirus pandemic, thus cancelling the tournament.


2020 America East Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 America East Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the America East Conference, which was held on March 7, 10, and canceled before its scheduled conclusion on March 14, 2020. All tournament games were played on home arenas of the higher-seeded school. The winner would have received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, which itself was also cancelled to help curtail the spread of COVID-19.


2020 America East Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The top eight teams in the conference standings qualify for the tournament. The teams are seeded by record in conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2020 America East Men's Basketball Tournament, Bracket and results
Teams are reseeded after each round with the highest remaining seeds receiving home-court advantage.


2020 America East Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2020 America East Men's Soccer Tournament was the 32nd edition of the tournament. The tournament decided the America East Conference champion and guaranteed representative into the 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.


2020 America East Men's Soccer Tournament, Background
The 2020 America East Men's Soccer Tournament was originally to be played in November of 2020. However, the America East Conference postponed all fall sports with the hope to play them in the spring.


2020 America East Men's Soccer Tournament, Format
The American East Tournament was contested by the three pod winners plus one wild card.


2020 America East Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 America East Women's Basketball Tournament began on March 4 and was cancelled on March 12 prior to its scheduled conclusion. Maine was the defending champion. The winner would have advanced to the 2020 NCAA Tournament which was also cancelled in efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19.


2020 America East Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2020 America East Women's Basketball Tournament, Schedule
All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:


2020 America East Women's Basketball Tournament, Bracket and Results
Teams are reseeded after each round with highest remaining seeds receiving home court advantage.


2020 American Association season
The 2020 American Association season is the 15th season of professional baseball in the American Association of Professional Baseball (AA) since its creation in October 2005. Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic the league only field 6 teams and played a shortened season. The league held a dispersal draft of the players on the teams that did not take the field this season.


2020 American Association season, Season schedule
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the league looked for a way to play the season. The league fielded 6 teams for a 60 game schedule, using a 3 city hubs for home games. The hub cities selected were Fargo, Sioux Falls and Milwaukee. The week before the season started the Chicago Dogs were granted permission to play home games in Chicago. The Saint Paul Saints returned home August 4, 2021 The top two teams, The Milwaukee Milkmen and the Sioux Falls Canaries, competed in a best of 7 series for the championship. The Milkmen won the series 4-1.


2020 American Association season, Notable players
Former Major League Baseball players who played in the American Association in 2020


2020 American Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2020 American Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was a baseball tournament scheduled to be held at Spectrum Field in Clearwater, Florida from May 19 through May 24. The winner of the double-elimination tournament would have received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2020 American Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The Tournament has been held since 2014, the first year of the rebranding as the American Athletic Conference. Since then, Houston and East Carolina have each won the event twice, while Cincinnati and UConn have each won once.


2020 American Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
On March 12, 2020, the NCAA cancelled all winter and spring sports competitions due to the coronavirus pandemic, thus cancelling the tournament.


2020 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game
The 2020 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game presented by CapitalOne was a college football game played on Saturday, December 19, 2020, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. The 6th American Athletic Conference Championship Game, it determined the 2020 champion of the American Athletic Conference (The American). This was the first year of the current division-less format of the game; instead of representatives from two divisions, the two teams with the best conference records earned a spot in the game.


2020 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game
In consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio, attendance at the game was capped at 5,831 spectators by the Cincinnati Health Department, approximately 18% of the full capacity of Nippert Stadium (32,574).


2020 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game, Previous season
The 2019 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game featured East Division winner Cincinnati against West Division co-winner Memphis. Eight days after beating the Bearcats 34–24 at home in the regular-season finale, Memphis rallied for another win. The Tigers beat the Bearcats, 29–24.


2020 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Bearcats clinched a berth in the Championship Game, after the November 28 game against Temple was canceled. This is Cincinnati's second consecutive Championship Game appearance.


2020 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Tulsa
The Tulsa Golden Hurricane clinched a berth in the Championship Game after defeating Navy on December 5. This is Tulsa's first appearance in the conference championship.


2020 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the scheduled postseason men's basketball tournament for the American Athletic Conference. It was to be held at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. Due to the coronavirus pandemic the tournament was cancelled on March 12, 2020 – only minutes before the first game was set to begin.


2020 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 12 conference teams were slated to participate in the conference tournament. The top four teams received a bye into the quarterfinals. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Tiebreakers: win/loss record, head-to-head record, record against the highest ranked team outside of the tied teams, record against the second highest ranked team outside of the tied teams, etc.


2020 American Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2020 American Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Tournament is scheduled to be the 8th edition of the American Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament will decide the American Athletic Conference champion and guaranteed representative into the 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament will begin on 15 April 2021 and concluded on 17 April 2021.


2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason tournament that was held from March 6–9, 2020, in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. UConn won the tournament, their seventh consecutively, and earned an automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament.


2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All the teams in the American Athletic Conference will qualify for the tournament. Teams are seeded based on conference record, and then a tiebreaker system will be used. Teams seeded 5–12 play in the opening round, and teams seeded 1–4 received a bye to the quarterfinals.


2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Schedule
All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:


2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the American Athletic Conference, which was held on April 15  and April 17, 2021. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was played by only four teams instead of the usual six. All games were hosted at Corbett Stadium by regular season champion South Florida, who was also the defending tournament champion. The single-elimination tournament consisted of two rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The South Florida Bulls won the title by defeating third seeded Cincinnati 4–0 in the championship game, for their second tournament title in a row and third overall.


2020 American Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Tournament, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 6 goals scored in 3 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season
The 2020 American Athletic Conference football season is the 29th NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision season of the American Athletic Conference (The American). The season is the eighth since the former Big East Conference dissolved and became the American Athletic Conference and the seventh season of the College Football Playoff in place. The American is considered a member of the Group of Five (G5) together with Conference USA (C–USA), the Mid-American Conference (MAC), the Mountain West Conference and the Sun Belt Conference. The entire schedule was released on February 18, 2020.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Previous season
Memphis secured their third consecutive West division title and faced East champion Cincinnati in the 2019 AAC Championship game.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Previous season
Seven teams participated in bowl games during the 2019 season; the league went 4–3.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Previous season
SMU lost to Florida Atlantic 28–52 in the 2019 Boca Raton Bowl. UCF defeated Marshall in the Gasparilla Bowl 48–25. Temple lost to North Carolina 13–55 in the Military Bowl. No. 23 Navy defeated Kansas State 20–17 in the 2019 Liberty Bowl. No . 21 Cincinnati defeated Boston College 38–6 in the 2020 Birmingham Bowl after a ninety-minute rain delay. In the latest addition of the Battle for the Bell, Tulane defeated Southern Miss 30–13 in the Armed Forces Bowl.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Previous season
In the New Year's Six Game, No. 17 Memphis lost to No. 10 Penn State 39–53 in the Cotton Bowl Classic.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Preseason, Departure of UConn
The Huskies' Big East entrance date was confirmed for July 1, 2020 after UConn and The American reached a buyout agreement. At the time this agreement was announced, UConn also announced that its football team would become an FBS independent once it joined the Big East. The American has no immediate plan to add another team to rebalance division, so divisions have been eliminated from the conference for the time being.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Preseason, American Athletic Conference Media Days
The 2020 American Athletic Conference Media Day was originally scheduled for July 12–14 in Newport, Rhode Island. On May 4, 2020 The American Announced due to the COVID-19 Pandemic media day was canceled.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Head coaches, Coaching changes
At the end of his third season ended in a 4–8 record, South Florida fired Charlie Strong. On December 9, 2019, Jeff Scott, offensive coordinator for Clemson, was hired as the new head coach.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Head coaches, Coaching changes
On December 8, 2019 after Norvell's departure to Florida State, Silverfield served as the interim head coach before being promoted to head coach on December 13, 2019.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Head coaches, Coaches
Note: All stats current through the completion of the 2020 season


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Schedule
The regular season will begin on September 5, 2020 and will end on November 28, 2020. The season will conclude with the 2020 American Athletic Conference Championship Game game on December 19.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Postseason
For the 2020–2025 bowl cycle, The American will annually send teams to the Military Bowl, Fenway Bowl, and a third annual spot alternating between the Armed Forces Bowl and Hawaii Bowl annually. The American will have annually four appearances in the following bowls: Birmingham Bowl, Gasparilla Bowl, Boca Raton Bowl, Frisco Bowl, Cure Bowl, First Responder Bowl, Myrtle Beach Bowl and  New Mexico Bowl. The American champion will go to a New Year's Six bowl if a team finishes higher than the champions of Group of Five conferences in the final College Football Playoff rankings. American teams are also eligible for the College Football Playoff if they're among the top four teams in the final CFP ranking.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games, Cancelled bowls
The following annual bowl games tied in with the American Athletic Conference had their 2020 editions canceled :


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games, Cancelled bowls
Rankings are from CFP rankings. All times Eastern Time Zone. American teams shown in bold.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, American vs other conferences, American vs Power 5 matchups
The following games include American teams competing against Power Five conferences teams from the (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, Notre Dame, BYU and SEC). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most power five games for the American have been canceled, All of the Power Five conferences initially announced that they would go on with their season as scheduled, but with cuts to non-conference games in order to overcome logistical concerns and reduce travel. The Big Ten, Pac-12, and SEC were all limiting play to in-conference opponents only. The ACC and Big 12 are allowing one non-conference game each. The Big Ten and Pac 12 have postponed fall sports due to COVID-19 concerns.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, American vs other conferences, American vs Group of Five matchups
The following games include American teams competing against teams from C-USA, MAC, Mountain West or Sun Belt. On August 8, the MAC announced the postponement of all fall sports for the 2020 season, including football. On August 10, the Mountain West followed the MAC as the second Group of Five conference to postpone fall sports indefinitely. On August 10, Rice announced it was the delaying the start of it season until September 26.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, American vs other conferences, American vs FBS independents matchups
The following games include American teams competing against FBS Independents which include Army, Liberty, New Mexico State, UConn and UMass. UConn, announced that they would opt out of the 2020 season. UMass announced that they would opt of playing fall football and hopes to construct a season in spring 2021. New Mexico State announced that they would opt out of playing fall football and try to play in spring 2021.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, American vs other conferences, American vs FCS matchups
The Football Championship Subdivision comprises 13 conferences and two independent programs. All conferences and teams have postponed their fall conference schedules, The Big South, (James Madison, Elon, Villanova from the CAA), Missouri Valley Football Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, SoCon, and Southland Conference are allowing the option of playing out-of-conference games only


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Awards and honors, American Athletic Individual Awards
The following individuals received postseason honors as chosen by the league's head coaches.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. Players are chosen against other players playing at their position only. To be selected a consensus All-American, players must be chosen to the first team on at least two of the five official selectors as recognized by the NCAA. Second- and third-team honors are used to break ties. Players named first-team by all five selectors are deemed unanimous All-Americans. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine consensus and unanimous All-Americans.


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
The 2020 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), Sporting News (TSN, from its historic name of The Sporting News), Sports Illustrated (SI), The Athletic (Athletic), USA Today (USAT) ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), College Football News (CFN), Scout.com, Athlon Sports, and Fox Sports (FOX).


2020 American Athletic Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
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2020 American Athletic Conference football season, NFL Draft
The following list includes all AAC players who were drafted in the 2021 NFL Draft.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season
The 2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season will be the 8th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season will begin in February 2021 and conclude in April 2021.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season
The season was originally scheduled to run from August 28, 2020 to November 6, 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season
UCF are the defending regular season champions and SMU are the defending tournament champions.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Background, Previous season
The 2018 regular season was won by UCF, who finished conference play with a 5–1–1 record, and won on tiebreakers against SMU. SMU won the 2018 American Tournament, defeating UCF 5–4 in penalty kicks following a 1–1 draw in regulation and overtime. SMU earned the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament, while UCF and Connecticut received at-large berths into the tournament. In the NCAA Tournament, SMU lost in the first round to Oregon State. Connecticut beat rivals, Rhode Island, in the first round, before losing to Indiana in the second round. UCF was one of the 16 seeded teams (seeded 14th), allowing them to earn a bye into the second round. There, they lost in overtime to Lipscomb.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Background, Previous season
Following the season, Cal Jennings won the Offensive MVP award for the conference. Jacob Hauser-Ramsey of Connecticut won the Defensive MVP. Fellow UCF players, Louis Perez, Yannik Oettl, and Scott Calabrese won the AAC Midfielder, Goalkeeper, and Coach of the Year awards, respectively. Perez and Jennings were also named All-Americans by United Soccer Coaches.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Background, Previous season
Emil Cuello was the first AAC player to be drafted in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft, when he was selected by the LA Galaxy with the 19th overall pick in the first round of the draft.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Background, Program changes
Two AAC programs, UConn and Cincinnati, departed prior to the 2020 season. UConn left for the Big East Conference, will Cincinnati disbanded their men's soccer program due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Preseason, Preseason poll
The preseason poll was released on January 25, 2021. SMU was picked to the win the conference.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season, Preseason, Preseason national rankings
The preseason national rankings are normally announced in August. United Soccer Coaches, Soccer America, and TopDrawerSoccer.com delayed their Top-25 preseason poll to the start of the spring season. CollegeSoccerNews.com did a Top-30 preseason poll in September 2020. TopDrawer Soccer, Soccer America, and United Soccer Coaches released their rankings in February 2021.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season, MLS SuperDraft, Homegrown contracts
The Homegrown Player Rule is a Major League Soccer program that allows MLS teams to sign local players from their own development academies directly to MLS first team rosters. Before the creation of the rule in 2008, every player entering Major League Soccer had to be assigned through one of the existing MLS player allocation processes, such as the MLS SuperDraft.


2020 American Athletic Conference men's soccer season, MLS SuperDraft, Homegrown contracts
To place a player on its homegrown player list, making him eligible to sign as a homegrown player, players must have resided in that club's home territory and participated in the club's youth development system for at least one year. Players can play college soccer and still be eligible to sign a homegrown contract.


2020 American Cup
The 2020 American Cup was part of the World Cup circuit in artistic gymnastics. It was the only All-Around World Cup help in 2020 as the others were canceled due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 American Cup, Background
The American Cup was originally to be the first of four All-Around World Cups to be used as a way for countries to qualify an additional Olympic berth for the 2020 Olympic Games. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the remaining World Cups in Birmingham, Stuttgart, and Tokyo were originally postponed until 2021 after the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics. However, in 2021 the World Cups were officially canceled and the Olympic berths were awarded to the top three countries from qualification during the 2019 World Championships. For men's artistic gymnastics this was Russia, China, and Japan; for women's it was the United States, China, and Russia.


2020 American Cup, Participants
The top 12 teams from the 2019 World Championships were allowed to send a competitor. For women's artistic gymnastics, the Netherlands and Belgium opted not to send a competitor so 13th and 14th placed teams, Australia, and the Ukraine, were able to. The athletes from Russia withdrew last minute; therefore replacement athletes were not able to be selected.


2020 American Cup, Nastia Liukin Cup
The 11th annual Nastia Liukin Cup was held in conjunction with the 2020 American Cup. Since its inception in 2010, the competition has always been held on the Friday night before the American Cup, in the same arena.


2020 American Cup, Nastia Liukin Cup, Notable competitors
Former elite gymnasts and 2017 City of Jesolo Trophy competitors Olivia Dunne and Gabby Perea competed at the 2020 Nastia Liukin Cup.


2020 American League Championship Series
The 2020 American League Championship Series was the best-of-seven series between the two American League Division Series winners, the defending American League Champion Houston Astros and the Tampa Bay Rays, for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2020 World Series. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all games for the series were held behind closed doors at a neutral site at Petco Park in San Diego. The games were televised nationally by TBS.


2020 American League Championship Series
The Rays won the series and their second American League pennant after defeating the Astros, 4–3. In this series, the Astros became just the second team to force a Game 7 in MLB postseason history after trailing a best-of-seven series 3–0, after the 2004 Red Sox.


2020 American League Championship Series
The Rays would go on to lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series in six games.


2020 American League Championship Series, Background
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the MLB season was reduced to 60 games. As part of a special postseason format, playoff berths were made available for eight teams in each league: three division winners, three division runners-up, and two wild card teams. With no first-round byes for division winners, all teams were required to play in a Wild Card series.


2020 American League Championship Series, Background
The Rays made their first ALCS appearance since 2008, where they defeated the Boston Red Sox in seven games. On September 23, the Rays clinched their third AL East division title and their first since 2010. They swept the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2020 American League Wild Card Series and beat the New York Yankees in the 2020 American League Division Series.


2020 American League Championship Series, Background
On September 25, by virtue of a Dodgers win over the Angels, the Astros clinched a playoff berth, making it their fourth consecutive postseason appearance, as well as their fifth in six years. The Astros finished the regular season at 29–31 (.483), becoming the second American League team to reach the playoffs with a losing record, the first being the 1981 Kansas City Royals.


2020 American League Championship Series, Background
On September 30, the Astros became the first sub-.500 team to win a playoff series, eliminating the Minnesota Twins in a two-game sweep in the 2020 American League Wild Card Series after holding the typically potent Twins bats to zero home runs across the entire series. The Astros' win in Game 2 handed the Twins their 18th consecutive postseason loss, a drought dating back to 2004, and the longest such streak in all of North America's major professional sports.


2020 American League Championship Series, Background
The Astros advanced to the ALDS where they defeated the Oakland Athletics in a four-game upset, scoring a historic 33 runs (and 12 home runs) across 35 innings, and advancing to their fourth straight ALCS. The Astros became the first team to participate in an LCS with a losing record. This was the Astros' eighth overall LCS appearance (four each in the NL and AL).


2020 American League Championship Series, Background
This was the second postseason meeting between the Rays and Astros, a rematch of the 2019 ALDS, which Houston won, 3–2. As part of the terms set for the postseason, all games of the series were played at Petco Park in San Diego, California, a neutral site. This was the first ALCS to take place exclusively at a neutral site. Tampa Bay as the higher seed served as the home team (batting last each inning) for Games 1, 2, 6, and 7, while Houston as the lower seed was the home team for Games 3, 4, and 5, mirroring the 2–3–2 format typically used in the LCS.


2020 American League Championship Series, Background
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rays and Astros had not played each other during the regular season. Also due to the pandemic, the ALCS was played without fans in attendance. Both teams stayed at the Park Hyatt Resort Aviara as the designated bubble hotel.


2020 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Astros shortstop Carlos Correa hit a walk-off home run in the ninth inning off reliever Nick Anderson. The Astros became just the fourth team in MLB history to force a Game 6 after trailing a best-of-seven series 3–0 (after the 1998 Braves, 1999 Mets and 2004 Red Sox).


2020 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6
The Astros became just the second team to force a Game 7 in MLB postseason history after trailing a best-of-seven series 3–0 (after the 2004 Red Sox).


2020 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7
This was the first League Championship Series to reach a Game 7 since the 2017 ALCS, won by Houston over the New York Yankees.


2020 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 7
The starting pitchers, Lance McCullers Jr. for Houston and Charlie Morton for Tampa Bay, had both pitched for Houston in Game 7 of the 2017 ALCS and Game 7 of the 2017 World Series. Tampa Bay became the first MLB team to win a Game 7 after taking a 3-0 series lead. Concluding matters was Pete Fairbanks, who got Aledmys Díaz to fly out to Manuel Margot, to end the Astros' season and win the second AL pennant for Tampa Bay, the first in 12 seasons. Fairbanks earned his second save this postseason. The Rays became just the second team to win both a division series winner-take-all Game 5 and a League Championship Series winner-take-all Game 7 in the same year (after the 2012 San Francisco Giants).


2020 American League Division Series
The 2020 American League Division Series were two best-of-five-games series in Major League Baseball (MLB) to determine participating teams in the 2020 American League Championship Series. Those matchups were:


2020 American League Division Series
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all games for each of the two series were held at two neutral sites at Petco Park in San Diego, California, and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. The games were televised nationally by TBS. The Rays would earn their second American League Championship Series berth, their first being in 2008, while the Astros won their fourth straight American League Division Series.


2020 American League Division Series
The Rays would go on to defeat the Astros in the ALCS, then lose the 2020 World Series to the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers.


2020 American League Division Series, Background
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the MLB season was reduced to 60 games. As part of a special postseason format, playoff berths were made available for eight teams in each league: three division winners, three division runners-up, and two wild card teams. With no first round byes for division winners, all teams were required to play in a Wild Card series.


2020 American League Division Series, Background
Between the two leagues, Central division teams claimed three of the four wild card berths and thus made up seven of the sixteen teams in the Wild Card. However, all seven Central division teams lost their Wild Card series, thus leaving the Division series in both leagues to be contested exclusively by teams from East and West divisions.


2020 American League Division Series, Background
The Rays entered the ALDS as the top seed, having completed the regular season at 40–20 (.667) and winning the AL East. The second-seeded Athletics won the AL West, going 36–24 (.600). The two second place teams in their respective divisions, the Yankees and the Astros, also made the ALDS. Since 2012, when MLB removed the stipulation that two teams could not play each other in the ALDS if they were of the same division, there have been three times when an ALDS had at least one series with two division opponents. This is not only the fourth time that this will occur, but it is also the first time since the strike-affected 1981 American League Division Series (where division opponents were assured of facing each other on a one-time basis) that both ALDS match-ups consist of division opponents facing each other.


2020 American League Division Series, Background
This was the sixth ALDS for the Rays (having made it previously last year) and 22nd for the Yankees (and fourth in a row); they had faced each other ten times in the regular season, with the Rays winning eight out of ten games. This was the ninth ALDS for the Athletics (first since 2013) and the fifth for the Astros (their 12th Division Series overall, making their fourth in a row); in ten games between the two teams, the Athletics won seven games.


2020 American League Division Series, Background
As part of the terms set for the postseason, all games starting with the Division Series would be played at neutral sites. The Rays and Yankees played at Petco Park, while the Astros and Athletics played at Dodger Stadium.


2020 American League Division Series, Background
The higher seed served as the "home team" (i.e., batted second each inning) for Games 1, 2, and 5, while the lower seed was the "home team" for Games 3 and 4, mirroring the 2–2–1 format typically used in the Division Series.


2020 American League Division Series, Matchups, Tampa Bay Rays vs. New York Yankees
This is the first postseason meeting between the Yankees and the Rays.


2020 American League Division Series, Matchups, Oakland Athletics vs. Houston Astros
This is the first postseason meeting between the Athletics and Astros.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York
This is the first postseason match-up between the Rays and Yankees. The Rays won eight of ten games against the Yankees during the 60-game regular season.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 1
DJ LeMahieu began the game with a single off Rays starter Blake Snell, and came around to score following a wild pitch, a groundout, and a sacrifice fly. In the bottom of the first, Randy Arozarena tied the game with a solo home run off Yankees starter Gerrit Cole. Clint Frazier broke the tie with a home run in the top of the third, but the Rays promptly took a 3–2 lead with a two-run Ji-Man Choi home run.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 1
The Yankees regained the lead with solo home runs by Kyle Higashioka and Aaron Judge in the top of the fifth, which proved to be Snell's last inning. Ryan Thompson and Oliver Drake pitched scoreless sixth, seventh, and eighth innings, as did Cole, Chad Green, and Zack Britton. John Curtiss struggled in the ninth inning for the Rays, giving up an RBI single to Hicks before loading the bases for Giancarlo Stanton, who hit a grand slam to extend the Yankees' lead to 9–3. Shane McClanahan entered to pitch for the Rays afterwards, becoming the first pitcher in MLB history to debut in the postseason. Luis Cessa pitched a scoreless bottom of the ninth to end the game.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 2
The Rays took an early lead on a solo Randy Arozarena home run off starter Deivi García in the bottom of the first, but Giancarlo Stanton tied the game with a solo home run off Rays starter Tyler Glasnow to lead off the top of the second. J. A. Happ replaced García after the first inning; in the bottom of the second, Joey Wendle singled and Mike Zunino homered to give the Rays a 3–1 lead. Manuel Margot hit another two-run homer off Happ in the third following a walk to Ji-Man Choi.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 2
Glasnow began the fourth by allowing a single to Aaron Hicks and walking Luke Voit, which was followed by another Stanton home run, cutting the score to 5–4. Happ was replaced by Adam Ottavino in the fourth; in the fifth, Ottavino walked Wendle, who promptly stole second. Jonathan Loáisiga then entered to pitch to Kevin Kiermaier, who scored Wendle with a single. Austin Meadows extended the lead to 7–4 with a home run off Loáisiga in the sixth. Scoreless innings were pitched by the Rays' Diego Castillo and Nick Anderson and the Yankees' Jonathan Holder and Nick Nelson.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 2
Pete Fairbanks entered to finish the game for the Rays in the ninth, and ran into trouble after issuing walks to Urshela and Gleyber Torres. He was able to strike out Clint Frazier and Gary Sánchez, but DJ LeMahieu singled to drive in a run. Fairbanks was able to retire Aaron Judge with a groundout to limit the damage and seal the victory for Tampa Bay.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 2
The Rays' pitchers struck out 18 Yankees batters, a record for a nine-inning postseason game. Giancarlo Stanton joined Lou Gehrig and Reggie Jackson as the only Yankees with home runs in four straight postseason games.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 3
Michael Pérez began the scoring with an RBI single in the top of the second off Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka. The Rays started Charlie Morton, who pitched two 1-2-3 innings to begin the game, but, in the third, Brett Gardner singled, Kyle Higashioka reached on a Willy Adames error, and DJ LeMahieu walked to load the bases. Aaron Judge scored Gardner on a sacrifice fly, but Morton got Luke Voit to ground out to end the inning.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 3
In the fourth, Kevin Kiermaier homered after Joey Wendle singled and Adames walked to give the Rays a 4–1 lead, and Randy Arozarena added a run with a solo home run in the fifth, which ended Tanaka's outing. Morton allowed a run in the bottom of the fifth after LeMahieu singled and Aaron Hicks scored him with a double, but Pérez hit a two-run home run off Chad Green in the sixth to extend the Rays' lead again.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 3
Luis Cessa replaced Green after the home run, and walked Arozarena, who scored on a Ji-man Choi double, giving the Rays an 8–2 lead. Giancarlo Stanton hit a two-run home run off Shane McClanahan in the eighth after Voit reached on an error, but Diego Castillo pitched a scoreless ninth to end the game at 8–4 for Tampa Bay.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 4
In Game 4, the Rays started Ryan Thompson as an opener. The Yankees started Jordan Montgomery. In the second, Thompson gave up a leadoff home run to Luke Voit and promptly loaded the bases with three straight walks to Brett Gardner, Gleyber Torres and Gio Urshela. Thompson was able to strike out Kyle Higashioka, but Aaron Judge delivered a sacrifice fly to give the Yankees a 2–0 lead.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 4
Yankees starter Jordan Montgomery allowed the Rays' sole run of the game in the third when Willy Adames walked, Kevin Kiermaier hit a ground-rule double, and Brandon Lowe grounded out to score Adames. Ryan Yarbrough pitched for the Rays after Thompson, and allowed one run, a solo home run to Torres. The Yankees scored another run in the eighth inning off Aaron Slegers after Torres singled and stole second and was driven in by a Higashioka single. Chad Green, Zack Britton, and Aroldis Chapman all pitched scoreless innings in relief of Montgomery to force a Game 5.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 5
In the decisive Game 5, the Yankees turned to Gerrit Cole, while the Rays started Tyler Glasnow. As Glasnow had thrown 93 pitches in the Rays' victory in Game 2, he was not expected to pitch for long. Glasnow pitched into the third, when Nick Anderson entered in relief. Aaron Judge homered off Anderson to lead off the fourth, giving the Yankees a 1–0. Cole, meanwhile, took a no-hitter into the fifth inning until Austin Meadows tied the game with a home run of his own.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Game 5
Pete Fairbanks pitched a scoreless fifth and sixth for Tampa Bay, while Zack Britton relieved Cole in the sixth and earned two outs in the seventh before the Yankees went to their closer, Aroldis Chapman, to keep the game tied. After Diego Castillo retired the Yankees in the top of the eighth, Mike Brosseau gave the Rays the lead with a home run off Chapman, a matchup that was seen as significant as Chapman had been previously suspended for throwing at Brosseau's head in September. Castillo pitched a scoreless top of the ninth to send the Rays to their first ALCS since 2008.


2020 American League Division Series, Tampa Bay vs. New York, Composite line score
2020 ALDS (3–2): Tampa Bay Rays defeated New York Yankees


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston
This is the first postseason match-up between the Athletics and Astros. The Athletics won seven of ten games against the Astros during the 60-game regular season. This is the first time that two AL West teams have met in a postseason match-up in the wild card era.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 1
In Game 1, Oakland struck first on a home run by Khris Davis. They would follow with another home run to lead off the third inning from Sean Murphy to give them a 3–0 lead. They had a chance for more with consecutive singles before a double play wiped their chance out. In the next inning, the Astros struck back with home runs from Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa to tie the game at three. Oakland responded in kind with the first batter in Matt Olson to take the lead back.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 1
In the fifth, both starting pitchers would be taken out before getting an out, with Chris Bassitt having allowed three runs on nine hits while Lance McCullers Jr allowed five runs (four earned) on eight hits. The Athletics led 5–3 after five innings, but the Astros took over from there in through an awakened offense to override a previously vaunted bullpen. In the sixth inning, the Astros generated four runs after having led the inning off with two outs, doing so on an error, three singles, and a double.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 1
The Astros bullpen came through for them with the work of four pitchers that allowed no hits/runs, with Blake Taylor receiving the win for his pivotal fifth inning. As for the Athletics, they went through seven pitchers to pitch in relief, who combined for seven hits and seven runs while J.B. Wendelken received the loss for his work in the fifth. The game was full of distinct firsts, such as George Springer having his first four hit postseason game, while Correa became the first shortstop (and first Astro) to have multiple career multi-homer postseason games.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 2
Once again, the Athletics took the lead early, doing so on a home run from Khris Davis off Framber Valdez. However, the Astros would respond in the next inning with a two-out home run by George Springer to make it 2–1. In the next inning, the Astros generated a run on a double, a single, and a groundout from Carlos Correa to make it 3–1. The Athletics responded with their first batter in the fourth by Chad Pinder's home run shot to make it 3–2.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 2
Sean Manaea would be pulled after two batters in the fifth inning after Martin Maldonado hit a home run. On Yusmeiro Petit's first pitch as reliever, George Springer hit a deep shot to left field to make it 5–2. Valdez would pitch until the seventh inning, finishing with ten retired batters in a row (with reliever Enoli Paredes retiring the first three batters as well). Ryan Pressly allowed a single in the ninth inning, but he followed it up with a flyball and a double play to finish another game of work for the Astros, who won their fourth straight postseason game.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 3
The third game was more of the same in pitching and leads in a relative sense, since both starting pitchers in Jesus Luzardo and José Urquidy did not make it to the fifth inning, and the Athletics and the Astros would trade the lead separate times. Tommy La Stella started it off early for the Athletics, doing so on the seventh pitch of the game to give them a 1–0 lead.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 3
The Astros responded in kind with a home run by Jose Altuve (his first since the famed shot in the ALCS the previous year), while Carlos Correa drove in a run with a fielder's choice that scored Michael Brantley to make it 2–1. Mark Canha absolved them of the lead four pitches later on a home run. Matt Olson gave them the lead on the first pitch of the fourth inning, and a home run from Marcus Semien in the subsequent inning chased Urquidy from the game as the Athletics led 4–2.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 3
The bottom half of the frame saw three pitchers for the Athletics, as a home run from Aledmys Diaz after a lead-off walk tied the game, while Michael Brantley and Alex Bregman each scored in a run on base hits off Yusmeiro Petit before Jake Diekman finished the inning with allowing an RBI single and the final out of a now 7–4 game. In the seventh inning, the Athletics would tie the game, garnering two straight singles off Josh James before a Chad Pinder home run tied it at seven.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 3
Brooks Raley would get the three outs to close the inning (as James had done for the sixth), but his attempt at pitching a second inning of work resulted in two walks, a double, and two runs on sacrifice flyballs to make it 9–7. Liam Hendriks closed out the last three innings for the Athletics by allowing just one hit and no runs as they would force a Game 4 in the series.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 4
In Game 4, the pattern of lead changes and home run balls flying would continue as both teams combined for six home runs to contribute to a new record of home runs in a Division Series with 24 (the previous record being 22 by the 1995 ALDS), with both teams hitting twelve. One constant emerged from this game in a dearth of starting pitcher depth. In the second inning, Ramon Laureano started it off with a home run blast off Zack Greinke after consecutive singles to make it 3–0.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 4
In the fourth inning, Frankie Montas, like other starting Oakland pitchers before him, met his match. Jose Altuve led off the inning with a walk, and Michael Brantley responded with a home run to narrow the game to 3–2. Montas allowed two straight singles to bring up Carlos Correa. He hit a deep shot to left field to make it 5–3. Montas allowed two more singles before J.B. Wendelken was brought in to get the final out.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 4
Laureano responded in the fifth inning on the second pitch by Greinke to narrow it to 5–4, while Greinke lasted long enough to get two of the three outs before being taken out for the bullpen. The Astros continued the barrage with Brantley hitting his second home run, while two hits and walk resulted in one more run driven in by Correa to make it 7–4. In the sixth, they continued the scoring with hitting prowess, as Kyle Tucker and Correa each drove in RBIs on singles to make it 9–4.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 4
In the subsequent inning, Jose Altuve hit a home run off Jake Diekman to make the score 11–4. The bullpen for the Astros took over and held the fort together, allowing two runs on six hits as Cristian Javier led the way with 21⁄3 innings of work to receive the victory, with Khris Davis striking out with runners on second and first to finish off a 11–6 victory.


2020 American League Division Series, Oakland vs. Houston, Game 4
The Athletics allowed six runs on seven hits in the finishing game in a series where they used all but one pitcher; despite taking the lead in each game (including being up by three runs in three of them), the Athletics had lost in the ALDS once again, having failed to advance past the round three times since 2006 (and six out of seven times overall). The Astros clinched their way to the American League Championship Series for the fourth straight year, becoming the fifth team to ever reach four straight LCS and the first since the St. Louis Cardinals did so from 2011 to 2014.


2020 American League Wild Card Series
The 2020 American League Wild Card Series were four best-of-three series in Major League Baseball (MLB) to determine participating teams in the 2020 American League Division Series. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MLB expanded the postseason instead of holding the regular Wild Card Game for each league. All games for each series were played at the higher seeded team's home ballpark.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Background
On September 15, 2020, MLB announced the playoff bracket for the 2020 season, which was shortened to 60 regular season games due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The postseason consisted of eight teams from each league: the top two teams from each division, plus the teams from each division with the next two best records. The Wild Card Series were best-of-three series, as opposed to the play-in game format of the Wild Card Game from previous seasons, while the Division Series, League Championship Series, and World Series were their normal lengths. All Wild Card Series games were played at the home field of the higher seeded team.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Tampa Bay vs. Toronto
This is the first postseason series between the Rays and Blue Jays.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Tampa Bay vs. Toronto, Composite line score
2020 ALWC (2–0): Tampa Bay Rays defeated Toronto Blue Jays


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Oakland vs. Chicago
This is the first postseason series between the Athletics and White Sox.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Oakland vs. Chicago, Game 3
This was the White Sox first winner-take-all elimination game in the club's 119-year history. The Athletics had lost nine straight such winner-take-all elimination games until this win.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Minnesota vs. Houston
This is the first postseason meeting between the Twins and Astros.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Minnesota vs. Houston, Game 1
The decision for this game would fall to the bullpen for both teams in this brief series, matching Zack Greinke versus Kenta Maeda. Greinke went four innings and allowed a run on two hits and three walks, while Maeda went five innings and allowed just two hits. The Astros left nine on base while the Twins left seven. George Springer tied the game on a RBI single in the seventh. In the ninth inning, the Twins would crumble.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Minnesota vs. Houston, Game 1
Sergio Romo got the first two outs of the inning, but he started it by allowing consecutive singles and a fielding choice that loaded the bases. Facing Jose Altuve with the bases loaded, he would walk him to score in the go-ahead run. Caleb Thielbar would replace Romo and have his fourth pitch hit by Michael Brantley for a single that scored two runs before the inning ended.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Minnesota vs. Houston, Game 1
Framber Valdez, who had taken over for Greinke in the fifth, would allow two singles in the ninth (the only hits he allowed in his five innings of work), but he would seal the game on a double play that gave the Astros a 1-0 lead in the series. This was the Twins’ 17th straight postseason loss, setting a team record for major professional sports in North America.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Minnesota vs. Houston, Game 2
José Urquidy threw four innings for the Astros and allowed a run before handing it to the bullpen, who pitched 4.2 scoreless innings while allowing just one hit. Jose Berrios matched him with five innings with one run allowed, but Cody Stashak allowed the go-ahead run on a home run by Carlos Correa. In total, the bullpen allowed three hits and two runs. This was the Twins' 18th straight postseason loss, extending their record. This was Dusty Baker's first playoff series win since the 2003 National League Division Series while he was manager of the Chicago Cubs.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Cleveland vs. New York
This is the fifth postseason meeting between the Indians and Yankees, with both teams splitting their first four postseason meetings. The Indians previously won the 1997 American League Division Series 3–2 and the 2007 American League Division Series 3–1, while the Yankees previously won the 1998 American League Championship Series 4–2 and the 2017 American League Division Series 3–2.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Cleveland vs. New York, Game 1
The first game matched the prime stars for both squads in Gerrit Cole and Shane Bieber, with the latter having won the pitching Triple Crown for the 2020 season. The Yankees took an early lead when Aaron Judge hit a home run on the first pitch he saw from Bieber, who had allowed the leadoff hitter in DJ LeMahieu to get on base with a single. Luke Voit increased the lead to three in the third inning on a double.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Cleveland vs. New York, Game 1
The Indians countered with a run on a José Ramírez double that made it 3-1, but a Carlos Santana strike out culled the chance for more with runners on the corner. The Yankees responded with a Brett Gardner RBI double and a subsequent LeMahieu RBI single to make it 5–1. Josh Naylor made it 5–2 on a home run, while Gleyber Torres responded with a home run of his own to make it 7–2.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Cleveland vs. New York, Game 1
The Yankees blew the game further open with runs driven in by Urshela, Torres, and Gardner to make for four runs in the seventh before finishing with a Giancarlo Stanton home run. The Indians closed the scoring with a Tyler Naquin RBI single that made the final score 12–3. Cole struck out thirteen batters in seven innings while allowing two runs on six hits. He was the second pitcher to throw thirteen strikeouts with zero walks and the first since Tom Seaver did so in Game 1 of the 1973 National League Championship Series. Bieber allowed seven runs on nine hits while striking out seven with two walks that saw him last 4 2/3 innings.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Cleveland vs. New York, Game 2
Masahiro Tanaka was matched against Carlos Carrasco, but neither starter would factor into the final result. Tanaka pitched four innings but allowed six runs on five hits with three strikeouts and walks, while Carrasco allowed four runs on two hits with three walks to six strikeouts on three innings. The Indians led 4-0 on RBI doubles by José Ramírez & Josh Naylor and a Roberto Perez RBI single in the first inning. Giancarlo Stanton made it 4-1 with a home run in the second inning.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Cleveland vs. New York, Game 2
The fourth inning saw the Yankees take the lead after driving Carrasco from the game on a triple and two walks. Gio Urshela, facing James Karinchak, hit a grand slam on a full count to take the lead. Phil Maton took over after two walks and managed to strand the runners to alleviate further damage. In the next inning, he allowed a run to score on a sacrifice fly by Stanton. Tanaka was driven out of the game in the fifth after allowing a double and a walk to be replaced by Chad Green.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Cleveland vs. New York, Game 2
Ramirez would tie the game on a two-run double. Triston McKenzie took over for the sixth to pitch for Cleveland. A walk followed by a home run by Gary Sanchez meant an 8-6 lead for New York. Zack Britton managed to garner the first two outs of the seventh before being taken out for Jonathan Loaisiga after walking two batters. Jordan Luplow would tie the game on a two-run double. Loaisiga would allow the first two batters to reach on walks in the eighth and was replaced by Aroldis Chapman.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Cleveland vs. New York, Game 2
On the first pitch he saw, César Hernández hit a single that would break the tie at eight and give them the lead. Brad Hand was sent out to save the ninth inning for the Indians. He allowed a walk and two singles to load the bases. This would be followed by a strikeout before a sacrifice fly by Sanchez to tie the game at nine. With two outs, LeMahieu would break the tie on an RBI single to make it 10-9. Chapman would strike out three of the four batters he saw to finish the game for the Yankees.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Cleveland vs. New York, Game 2
This extended the Indians consecutive playoff losing streak to eight games. This was the fourth time in the last five years that the Indians were eliminated from the postseason at home. At four hours and 50 minutes, this set a record as the longest nine-inning game in MLB history. This was also Francisco Lindor's last game with the Cleveland Indians, as he was traded along with Carlos Carrasco to the New York Mets in the off-season.


2020 American League Wild Card Series, Broadcasting
The games were televised on ESPN, and TBS in the United States, with ABC showing the first game of the Twins–Astros series and ESPN2 showing the second game. TBS aired the entirety of the Rays–Blue Jays series. Sportsnet, a property of Toronto Blue Jays owner Rogers Communications, broadcast games in Canada.


2020 American Samoa gubernatorial election
The 2020 American Samoa gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 2020, coinciding with the 2020 United States presidential elections and other United States elections. Incumbent Governor of American Samoa Lolo Matalasi Moliga was not eligible for reelection due to term limits. In American Samoa, gubernatorial candidates run on a non-partisan basis and as a slate together with their Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa candidate.


2020 American Samoa gubernatorial election
In the 2020 election, the previous lieutenant governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga was elected governor and the former attorney general, Salo Ale, was elected lieutenant governor with more than 60 percent of the vote.


2020 American Samoa gubernatorial election, Candidates
Four political tickets qualified for the 2020 election. Although candidates do affiliate with national political parties, the gubernatorial election is held on a nonpartisan basis.


2020 American Samoa gubernatorial election, Candidates, Not-qualified candidates
Fatumalala L. A. Al-Shehri, Independent candidate for American Samoa's at-large congressional district in 2012, had announced plans to run with Leah A. Smith, missionary for the Assembly of God Church, as her running mate on the first all-woman ticket, but they were not on the list of qualified candidates released by the American Samoa Election Office after the filing deadline.


2020 American Samoa gubernatorial election, Campaign
I’aulualo Fa’afetai Talia announced his candidacy at a campaign news media event at Sadie's by the Sea on July 28, 2019.


2020 American Samoa gubernatorial election, Campaign
Gaoteote Palaie Tofau announced his candidacy on February 9, 2020.


2020 American Samoa presidential caucuses
Although American Samoa did not participate in the 2020 presidential election because it is a territory and not a state, it still participated in the U.S. presidential caucuses and primaries.


2020 American Samoa presidential caucuses, Democratic caucuses
The 2020 American Samoa Democratic presidential caucuses took place on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The American Samoa caucuses were an open caucus, with the territory awarding 11 delegates towards the 2020 Democratic National Convention, of which 6 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the caucuses. Michael Bloomberg won the caucus and netted four delegates (his only primary win), with Tulsi Gabbard coming in second, and winning two delegates.


2020 American Samoa presidential caucuses, Democratic caucuses, Procedure
When the American Samoa Democratic Party published its draft delegate selection plan on July 3, 2019, it specified a Super Tuesday, March 3, date for the 2020 caucuses; this date was finalized via Facebook on February 1, 2020.


2020 American Samoa presidential caucuses, Democratic caucuses, Procedure
In the open caucuses, candidates must have met a threshold of 15 percent across the territory to be considered viable. The 6 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention were allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the caucuses. Of the 6 pledged delegates, all 6 were at-large pledged delegates.


2020 American Samoa presidential caucuses, Democratic caucuses, Procedure
The 6 pledged delegates American Samoa sends to the national convention will be joined by 5 unpledged PLEO delegates (4 members of the Democratic National Committee and the governor).


2020 American Samoa presidential caucuses, Democratic caucuses, Candidates
The following people were on the ballot in American Samoa.


2020 American Samoa presidential caucuses, Republican caucuses
The 2020 American Samoa Republican presidential caucuses took place on March 18, 2020, in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The 9 delegates to the 2020 Republican National Convention are unpledged, unless instructed otherwise by a resolution passed by the American Samoa Republican Party. The territory's party officially endorsed incumbent President Donald Trump, and thus all 9 delegates are expected to vote for him at the national convention.


2020 American Samoan general election
General elections were held in American Samoa on 3 November 2020. Voters elected members of the Fono and the American Samoan delegate to the United States Congress.


2020 American Samoan general election, Results, Governor & Lieutenant Governor
The governor of American Samoa is elected on a ticket with the lieutenant governor. Although candidates do affiliate with national political parties, they are elected on a nonpartisan basis.


2020 American Samoan general election, Results, Fono House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the American Samoa Fono (legislature). Although candidates do affiliate with national political parties, they are elected on a nonpartisan basis.


2020 American Samoan general election, Results, Delegate
The Delegate to the United States Congress represents American Samoa's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.


2020 American Society of Cinematographers Awards
The 35th American Society of Cinematographers Awards is set to be held on April 18, 2021, virtually, honoring the best cinematographers of film and television in 2020.


2020 American athlete strikes
On August 26, 2020, some professional athletes in the United States began to go on strike for their respective sports contests in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After the video of Blake's shooting in which he was seriously injured went viral, protests and riots broke out in the city of Kenosha and elsewhere. As a result of the shooting of Blake and the protests which followed, on August 26, professional athletes refused to play in their scheduled sports events, beginning with the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).


2020 American athlete strikes
Some athletes in the NBA, Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and Major League Soccer (MLS) decided not to play their games on August 26. Also on that day, the Women's Tennis Association Cincinnati Masters organizers postponed the tournament for one day to August 27, 2020. The strikes extended into August 27 and 28 when players from the National Hockey League (NHL) walked out of their playoff games. In response to the athlete strikes, nine National Football League (NFL) teams canceled their scheduled practices on August 27, 2020. The athlete strikes occurred as part of the broader racial unrest in the United States in 2020 and 2021.


2020 American athlete strikes, Background
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest for allegedly using a counterfeit bill. Floyd's death sparked national and international protests against police brutality, lack of police accountability, and racism. As a result of Floyd's death, NBA players began wearing T-shirts with the words I Can't Breathe while warming up before their NBA games.


2020 American athlete strikes, Background
The precedent for the NBA allowing the players to protest wearing the I Can't Breathe T-shirt was set in 2014 after the police killing of Eric Garner.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes
In response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, professional athletes in the United States walked out of and refused to play in their scheduled sporting events.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes
The broader protests were organized under the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which advocates non-violent civil disobedience to protest against police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people. The Black Lives Matter logo was displayed on the National Basketball Association (NBA) courts during the 2020 playoffs. When the NBA restarted the 2019–20 season in July 2020, NBA players knelt during the national anthem, with each player wearing a "Black Lives Matter" shirt.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, National Basketball Association
During the 2020 NBA playoffs, players on the Milwaukee Bucks walked out of their August 26 first-round playoff game against the Orlando Magic in protest of the shooting of Jacob Blake. The team decided not to come out of their locker room for the game. It was initially reported the Bucks would forfeit the contest; however, the Magic did not accept the Bucks' forfeiture. The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced that in light of the Bucks' decision to refuse to play, all NBA games for the day were postponed.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, National Basketball Association
The Toronto Raptors had also discussed a walkout of their second-round playoff series with the Boston Celtics in frustration with a lack of social or legislative change after the killing of George Floyd and as a result of Blake's shooting. In a meeting involving the players that took place later that night, the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers voted to cancel the rest of the tournament in an informal vote. The other NBA teams voted to continue playing.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, National Basketball Association
Sean Roberts, a Republican member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, threatened to pull tax breaks for the Oklahoma City Thunder if they knelt. All of the players and coaches from both the Thunder and the opposing Utah Jazz knelt anyway.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, National Basketball Association
The NBA also postponed their scheduled playoff games for August 28. The playoffs resumed on August 29.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, National Football League
In response to the shooting of Jacob Blake, the Detroit Lions canceled their scheduled practice on August 25. On August 27, nine NFL teams canceled their scheduled practices. Nineteen other NFL teams did continue their scheduled practices. Several teams that did not cancel practice issued statements about unity. The Jacksonville Jaguars decided to cancel their scheduled afternoon activities.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, Major League Baseball
In Major League Baseball on August 26, a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds was stopped by striking players. Later that day, the Seattle Mariners–San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers–San Francisco Giants games were postponed.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, Major League Baseball
On August 27, seven MLB games were postponed as a result of player strikes. At the New York Mets' Citi Field, a Black Lives Matter shirt was placed on home plate.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, Major League Baseball
On a day that was celebrated as Jackie Robinson Day across MLB, the August 28 game between the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics was postponed, with both teams walking off the field in protest.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL) players postponed their scheduled games for August 27 and 28. These games were part of the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, Major League Soccer
On August 26, Major League Soccer players staged a walkout of several games to highlight racial injustice. In all, the league canceled five of the six scheduled games for August 26.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, United Soccer League
Memphis 901 FC declined to travel to North Carolina for a scheduled USL Championship game against North Carolina FC on August 29, and the players instead participated in protests in Memphis.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, United Soccer League
Forward Madison FC, which played its 2020 home games in Milwaukee, postponed a USL League One game scheduled for August 30 against North Texas SC.


2020 American athlete strikes, Professional athletic strikes, National Independent Soccer Association
On August 27, the New York Cosmos and Detroit City FC announced that their scheduled game for August 29 would be postponed as both teams took part in protests. The following day, New Amsterdam FC and California United Strikers FC both announced they would not travel for their scheduled August 30 matches against Chattanooga FC and Los Angeles Force respectively.