The Latest: Pac-12 cancels Washington State-Stanford game

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:

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Washington State athletic director Pat Chun says the school has nine football players in COVID-19 protocols and four players had to be put into the protocol Friday morning leading to the cancellation of the Cougars' game at Stanford.

Chun said as of last weekend, the Cougars had zero players in their COVID protocols and the first positive test came early in the week. The four positives Friday morning kept the Cougars from reaching the Pac-12 mandate of 53 scholarship players available.

Chun said it was too early to know whether next Friday’s Apple Cup against rival Washington will be played as scheduled. He said figuring out the situation around the Apple Cup would begin Sunday.

“We’re going to get through tomorrow as planned and come Sunday we’ll start making our daily assessments about where our roster is at and where we’re at with everything related to trying to field a team on Friday,” Chun said.

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Colorado State’s men’s basketball program is pausing team activities through Dec. 2 because of two positive COVID-19 tests.

These are the first two positive tests since the players reported back in June.

The school said it will work with the Mountain West Conference to discuss how the hiatus affects the start of the Rams’ season.

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The Las Vegas Raiders have activated defensive back Lamarus Joyner from the COVID-19 list.

Coach Jon Gruden says he has no update yet on which of the other 10 players on the team on the COVID-19 list will be activated in time to play Sunday.

Joyner was placed on the COVID-19 list Tuesday as a “high risk” close contact after teammate Clelin Ferrell tested positive for the coronavirus. Seven other defensive players were added to the...