An offensive lineman tweeted a picture of his perfectly made bed and the pool he cleaned that day. He included his daily schedule: wake up at 8 a.m., breakfast, four online classes, lunch, offensive meetings. A newly enrolled linebacker posted a video praising his teammate’s competitiveness. Another lineman shared his healthy breakfast.

“Oh, I love it,” Maryland strength coach Ryan Davis said of a photo showing a player washing dishes. “That would fall under an act of service or gratitude. Not expecting someone else to do the dirty work for you.”

These posts are the public face of a program-wide contest, with the players split into teams and earning points for acts of this sort. It also has become reassurance for the coaches as they trust their players to make the right choices while far from the football facility, where their daily lives usually find structure.

In January, players designated as general managers drafted their teams, and the teams earned points through the offseason. Players work to improve their individual competitive score, which eventually turns into a report card-like profile on their lockers that shows progress toward goals. But with no in-person interaction between the players and staff members since early March, the visual evidence of those habits has migrated to social media – and might have increased in importance, too.

“This is what I’ve been telling our team,” said Davis, the director of football strength and conditioning. “The best players you’re going to see this year when you turn on the TV are going to be those who were mentally tough and mentally disciplined through this time.”

The team has a break between the end of the season and the start of winter conditioning, but strength coaches rarely go long stretches without interacting with players. Coach Michael Locksley said those staffers are “the nuts and bolts of … what your team is made of.”

Usually, the players would practice three times per week in April, attending meetings with their position groups and eating some meals with their coaches and teammates. On days without practice, they would train with the strength staff. The academic support staff is in the team facility, too.

But with organized team activities prohibited by the Big Ten, the players could only meet virtually and will return for meetings for a couple more weeks beginning May 20. Davis and other members of the strength staff post daily workout plans on social media, but the staff can’t host group video calls for the team to work out together. They can only send those suggestions through an app with videos attached.

“The relationships that you’ve established during the offseason and during those other times, it’s really going to be under fire right now,” Davis said. “If you did what you’re supposed to do, you really have those relationships and those connections with the guys, (and) you’re not going to have a problem with them working.”

For Davis, it helps when a player shares his work, such as defensive lineman Anthony Booker Jr. sprinting up a hill, because it encourages his teammates to show the same effort. Marcus Finger, an offensive lineman, recently tweeted a video of him doing squats with a pig on his shoulders, and teammates chimed in with jokes.

After Maryland canceled in-person classes, the football program sent questionnaires to the players as they headed home. The survey asked players where they planned to stay, which parents or guardians would be with them, whether they had Internet access and what training equipment was available. With that information, Maryland could distribute care packages to ensure players had what they needed.

What’s missing is that daily contact, the impossible-to-replicate interaction during meals, in the hallways and on the field. Davis wants a member of the strength staff to communicate with each player every day. It can be through FaceTime, text or even Instagram direct messages. The staffers mark which players they have heard from on a spreadsheet they share.

Sometimes those conversations unearth important information. Maybe a player’s mom was furloughed or an early enrollee needs encouragement after he gave up his final semester of high school for spring practices that were canceled. In those instances, Davis might give that player another FaceTime call and then pass the information to the coaches at the all-staff morning meetings.

Davis’s routine has remained relatively unchanged, and that consistency is what he preaches to his players. Davis still starts his day at 4:30 a.m. He attends a men’s group on Zoom at 5:30. He meets with his staffers, then with the entire football staff. He works out in the afternoon, and players, who have learned his schedule, will FaceTime him then. (“Sometimes they just want to see that you’re working, too,” Davis said.) Four days per week, he sets aside an hour to talk with an intern in his field who’s trying to work his way up. Then, in the evening and usually while cooking barbecue, he starts calling players.

Davis reminds the players of the difference between options, such as picking what color shirt to wear, and choices, which have consequences and often lead to behaviors. Maintaining those habits is how he hopes the players will navigate this time away from one another.

The Terps’ staff members, Davis said, might be hoarse when they return to in-person coaching. But it will be a welcome reprieve; he has spent the past few months gaining an appreciation for moments that had, until recently, been a routine part of his life.

“I don’t think any of us have ever taken for granted the job that we get to do every day,” Davis said. “I really don’t. We absolutely love having the privilege to coach and do what we do with these guys, but it is a challenge when you don’t see them.”

Yesterday an agreement was made to propose holding two Grands Prix at Jerez in July, can you talk us through that?

“Yesterday we had a meeting, the Vice President of the Regional Government of Andalusia, the Mayor of Jerez and I, and agreed the conditions to propose holding two MotoGP events and one Superbike event there, on the 19th and 26th of July and the first weekend of August, respectively. We agreed the conditions and how we could run that, and our idea is to propose to the Spanish government the possibility to do these events following a protocol we are creating. We are waiting for the official answer from the Spanish government regarding that matter. We think it’s something where we’ll be in connection with them next week following different meetings, and then finally we’ll know if this is enough to make it possible to have these Grands Prix at that time.”

So we await official confirmation from the Spanish government. Do we know when we will have an update?

“We will start to talk as a new situation is coming to Spain, and then next week we will start the conversations about hosting the Grands Prix.”

Is there the possibility of holding a test at the venue before the first race? For all three categories?

“Yes. Our proposal is to have a test on the Wednesday before the first weekend.”

Are there any updates on a potential MotoGP calendar for this season? What do you envisage?

“We are going through similar procedures with the governments in each country we want to go to, but that’s separate and we think maybe by the first part of June we can propose a calendar. Definitively. We’re looking at different dates, but we’re also waiting for the F1 calendar – and it will be difficult because it’s a short time and there will be many events – to try and avoid clashes with Formula 1.”

What about WorldSBK? What’s the situation?

“We are still discussing it. We have confirmation from Jerez that it’s possible to do it there. We don’t know exactly, Superbike is talking with different countries to know exactly what are the possibilities, and obviously we will do the same as MotoGP: when we know the situation exactly and the calendars and the possibilities to hold events in different countries, we will announce the new calendar. In the agreement with the government of Andalucia and the city of Jerez we include one WorldSBK race weekend.”

The plan in Jerez is to have the WorldSBK round after the Grands Prix. Is that something that could be the same going forward at other circuits or is it just for Jerez?

“In WorldSBK, we have the same situation as MotoGP: the first thing is to have permission to do races and then we can see which races can be held, in the days before… everything is open, as in MotoGP, but we have the plan to start as soon as possible and we believe this will be in the middle or end of July in Europe. There is the Superbike event in Argentina, we need to look at that but it’s still our plan to have more or less the same schedule – in terms of confirmation – as we do in MotoGP, so we think by the beginning of June we will have a clearer picture of what we can do with both.”

The schedule, announced first by individual teams and then by the league Thursday night, does appear to make allowances for the possibility the season will be disrupted by the novel coronavirus pandemic and state and local restrictions. Each NFL team is scheduled to play two home games and two road games in the season’s first four weeks, making that chunk of the schedule subject to relatively uncomplicated potential adjustments.

The league could easily cancel those four weeks of games if needed, leaving each team with six home games and six road games in a 12-game season, or move them to the end of the season, resulting in a full 16-game season with a delayed start. A person familiar with the league’s planning had said last month the schedule was being constructed with such contingencies in mind.

The schedule does not have teams playing exclusively non-division or nonconference opponents in the season’s first few weeks, as some observers had predicted. The 17-week, 256-game regular season concludes Jan. 3. The Super Bowl is slated for Feb. 7 in Tampa, Fla.

“The plan is to move forward as normal to play a full season, a full schedule, until the medical community tells us otherwise,” Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, told the league-owned NFL Network during its schedule-release show. “And that’s been our approach from Day 1 . . . let’s just make sure we’re responsible. We’re doing proper planning. . . . Any guidelines as it pertains to what the governors’ orders are for the stay-at-home policies, let’s just make sure that we’re aligned [and] we’re following those guidelines.”

The NFL declined further comment on the flexibility built into the schedule. The league previously announced that plans to play five international games this season, four in London and one in Mexico City, would be canceled and the games would be played in the United States. The Jacksonville Jaguars regained two home games in Jacksonville that were to have been played in London. The Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons and Arizona Cardinals regained one domestic home game each.

“In preparing to play the season as scheduled, we will continue to make our decisions based on the latest medical and public health advice, in compliance with government regulations, and with appropriate safety protocols to protect the health of our fans, players, club and league personnel, and our communities,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a written statement. “We will be prepared to make adjustments as necessary, as we have during this offseason in safely and efficiently conducting key activities such as free agency, the virtual offseason program, and the 2020 NFL Draft.”

Goodell opted to press forward with the schedule release even amid so much uncertainty, just as the NFL conducted much of its earlier offseason business. The league moved ahead with free agency for veteran players in March and had a remotely conducted NFL draft last month, with teams’ coaches and general managers working from their homes and Goodell announcing picks from his basement.

The contingencies being mulled by the NFL include the possibilities of a delayed or shortened season, games in empty or partially filled stadiums, and games being relocated or rescheduled based on local conditions or restrictions, according to people with knowledge of the league’s planning.

“If there is a schedule that’s released and we all hope and expect and will shoot for those dates, I don’t really draw a tremendous amount of pause as long as we understand what goes into that is the fact that this is what we are hoping for,” DeMaurice Smith, the NFL Players Association’s executive director, said in a pre-draft video conference with reporters last month. “I think that’s fine. But I also know that there are a lot of benchmarks that I think every medical professional would hope to see. There are certainly a lot of questions that we would hope to have answers to.”

The Chiefs, the defending Super Bowl champions, are scheduled to host the season-opening game against the Texans on a Thursday night. Tom Brady’s first game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers comes three days later on Sept. 13 at New Orleans. On that same opening Sunday of games, the New England Patriots host the Miami Dolphins in their first game since the free agent exit of Brady, their six-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback.

The Los Angeles Rams face the Dallas Cowboys to open their new L.A. stadium in the season’s first Sunday night game. The Raiders play their first game in their new home city, Las Vegas, with a Sept. 21 Monday night game against the Saints. The Baltimore Ravens, with reigning league MVP Lamar Jackson, play on Thanksgiving night at Pittsburgh. The Saints host the Minnesota Vikings in a Christmas Day game, making for the first Friday NFL game in 11 years. Brady’s Buccaneers are scheduled for five prime-time games over the course of the season.

Administered by the LPGA Foundation, the Dinah Shore Trophy Award recognizes female collegiate golfers who excel in both academics (3.2 on a 4.0 scale) and athletics – playing in at least 50% of the team’s scheduled events – while maintaining a 78.00 or less scoring average. In addition, nominees must demonstrate outstanding leadership skills and community service.

“It means to much so me to cap off my senior year this way, even though it didn’t go exactly as planned with this pandemic going on,” said Grimstad in a video acceptance speech. “I want to say thank you to everybody who does what they can every day so that myself and other collegiate players can keep chasing our dreams and do what we love the most. This wouldn’t have been possible without all of you. It’s a true testament to me that hard work and dedication over time truly pays off. I’m super humbled and I’m very excited for what’s to come.”

Grimstad, of Bergen, Norway, is a leader both in the classroom and on the golf course. She was named to the All-ACC Academic team in her first three seasons and earned WGCA All-Academic honors in 2018 and 2019. Grimstad is a three-year Student-Athlete Advisory Committee member and was the senior captain. She boasts a 3.853 GPA while majoring in sport administration and minoring in sport medicine.

Inside the ropes, Grimstad shattered the Miami program record with a 71.00 scoring average in 2019-20, nearly one full stroke better than the previous mark, and led the ACC with a -0.85 relative-to-par average. In February, she earned her first collegiate victory with a dominating seven-stroke victory at the UCF Challenge. She finished the season No. 29 in the golfstat.com individual rankings and was named February’s ACC Golfer of the Month. In April, she was selected as a Second-Team All-American by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA), becoming the 22nd player in program history to earn All-American honors.

Away from the course and classroom, Grimstad organized practices and play for children ages 7-12 as a golf instructor at Stavanger Golf Club in her native Norway. In addition, she volunteered with Amnesty International by supervising a group of fellow students in walking door-to-door to collect contributions. At Miami, she volunteered at the Special Olympics, teaching children with various abilities the basic skill requirements for golf.

The Dinah Shore Trophy Award is a joint effort between The LPGA Foundation, Friends of Golf (FOG) organization and the ANA Inspiration, one of the LPGA’s five major championships and the largest contributor to the Dinah Shore Scholarship Fund. As part of the Dinah Shore Trophy Award, a $10,000 grant will be awarded to the women’s golf program at the University of Miami.

Former winners of this prestigious award include current LPGA Tour players Stacy Lewis (University of Arkansas, 2007) and Amy Olson (North Dakota State University, 2012), current Symetra Tour players Alice Chen (Furman University, 2018) and Casey Danielson (Stanford University, 2017), and Golf Channel personality and former LPGA Tour player Amanda Blumenherst (Duke University, 2008, 2009).

The LPGA Foundation announced the Dinah Shore Scholarship Fund in March 1994 in honor of the late Dinah Shore, a Vanderbilt University graduate and an honorary member of the LPGA and World Golf Halls of Fame. The Dinah Shore Trophy Award has contributed more than $194,000 to women’s collegiate golf programs, including this year.

About the contributing organizations:

Friends of Golf (FOG) is a fundraising organization founded and administered by Eddie Merrins, golf professional emeritus at Bel-Air Country Club in Beverly Hills, Calif. FOG contributes annually to collegiate, high school and junior golf programs throughout the country, and Dinah Shore was considered the “First Lady” of FOG.

A part of the LPGA Tour since 1972 when it was founded by entertainer Dinah Shore, the ANA Inspiration (initially the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner’s Circle and more recently the Kraft Nabisco Championship) was designated as a major in 1983. Three-time champion Amy Alcott began a winner’s tradition of jumping into the lake at the 18th hole after her victory in 1991. The event was called the Colgate Dinah Shore from 1972-81 and the Nabisco Dinah Shore from 1982-99. Dinah Shore’s legacy and heritage is preserved with the “Dinah Shore Walk of Champions” at the 18th hole at Mission Hills Country Club. In addition, a statue of Dinah Shore, serving as the walk’s focal point, was created by noted sculptor George Montgomery, who was Shore’s former husband.

The LPGA is the world’s leading professional golf organization for women. Founded in 1950 and headquartered in Daytona Beach, Fla., the association celebrates a diverse and storied membership with more than 2,300 Members representing more than 30 countries. With a vision to inspire, empower, educate and entertain by showcasing the very best of women’s golf, LPGA Tour Professionals compete across the globe, while the Symetra Tour, the official development and qualifying tour of the LPGA, consistently produces a pipeline of talent ready for the world stage. Additionally, LPGA Professionals directly impact the game through teaching, coaching and management.

The Bundesliga and its second division received the go-ahead Wednesday, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced they would be allowed to return under heavy precautionary measures.

“I think we can safely state that the first level of the pandemic is behind us,” Merkel said while announcing a number of easing measures following discussions with state premiers.

The 36 teams in Germany’s top two divisions met via video conference Thursday to hash out the specifics of the resumed schedule, which was halted March 13 with each team having nine matches remaining. Six games will be played on May 16, another two on May 17 and then one more on May 18. Games will be played in the order of the original schedule. All of the games will be played without fans present, and only around 300 people will be allowed into the stadiums for each game.

The Bundesliga standings were tight at the top when play was halted. Seven-time defending champion Bayern Munich paced the first-division table with 55 points, followed by Borussia Dortmund (51 points), RB Leipzig (50) and Borussia Mönchengladbach (49) in the top four spots, which receive Champions League berths at the end of the season. Bayer Leverkusen was two points off that pace with 47 points.

Germany has been able to limit its coronavirus death rate thanks in part to aggressive testing, allowing the country to begin reopening on a limited basis. Bundesliga players, for instance, have been allowed to practice in small groups at team facilities for the past few weeks. Ahead of matches, they will be under special quarantine measures, according to the government statement.

Germany’s rate of new coronavirus infections has dropped to less than 1,000 per day for the first time since mid-March.

“We have the privilege to live in a country with one of the best health systems in the world and can be thankful,” Christian Seifert, DFL chief executive, said at a news conference Thursday.

On Monday, German soccer officials announced that 10 of the 1,724 players, coaches, team physicians and other staff members to receive coronavirus tests had tested positive, with none of those people reportedly showing symptoms. All Bundesliga employees will be tested again this week and throughout the remainder of the season, the league has announced. Players or team staff members who test positive will self-isolate, though entire teams will not be required to do so under DFL regulations.

The professional soccer leagues in France, the Netherlands and Belgium will not be allowed to finish their halted seasons after those governments issued bans on sporting events until the late summer, including events with no fans present. But on Monday, Spain’s top league announced that players would be allowed to return to team facilities for individual training this week, with hopes of resuming play in June.

England’s Premier League, the world’s richest, has yet to announce its return plan amid reported squabbling between clubs at the top and bottom of the standings, with the latter group hoping to avoid relegation to the country’s less-lucrative second division.

The special live broadcast promotion for the opening match is sponsored by Hana Bank, the K-League title sponsor, and overseas promotion is supported by overseas agency, Sports Radar.

While this match will be played without an offline audience due to COVID-19, football fans around the world are invited to become cyber spectators. This is expected to be an important opening match because of the showdown between last year’s K-League 1 champions, ‘Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (@Jeonbuk_hyundai)’, and last year’s FA Cup winners ‘Suwon Samsung Bluewings (@bluewingsfc)’.

Korea is resuming professional sports games since worldwide sporting events including the Olympic Games were postponed or canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The opening of the K-League season, without any fans in attendance, is expected to spark global interest in Korea again.

The K-League has prepared various measures to protect the players. Detailed directions will be continually reinforced through several procedures such as fever checks, careful management of all player movements, and numbering the drinks of each player. In addition, K-League financed and managed COVID-19 testing for a total of 1,142 K-League players and coaching staff in order to operate the league and games safely.

Yeon Jeong Kim, Head of the Global Kpop & K-content Partnerships at Twitter said, “We look forward to sharing the K-League’s high level of football with the rest of the world to help worldwide football fans get their fill of new matches and overcome COVID-19 at home together. Live-streaming the K-League opening match on Twitter will be a good opportunity to grow the popularity of the ‘Korean Sports’ across the world following K-POP, K-Movie and Korean Election Broadcasting.”

Twitter has provided a special emoji to mark the opening of the K-League. The K-League emoji will be automatically generated in tweets using the following hashtags to add more fun: #KLeague #K리그 #StayHomeWithKLeague #집콕K리그 #KoreanFootball.

Hunter, a 22-year-old who turned professional straight out of Loudoun Valley High, likes to call his time in self-isolation “the revival of what matters.” If not for the novel coronavirus pandemic, Hunter would be preparing for the U.S. Olympic trials with a real chance to make it to Tokyo – he qualified for last summer’s world championships at 5,000 meters. But those two miles will matter to Hunter for different reasons.

“Running can sometimes be a very, very selfish endeavor,” Hunter said. “And I don’t want that right now. I want it to be for other people.”

Hunter will run the two-mile time trial at 5 p.m. Thursday to raise money for Real Hope for Haiti, a charity that benefits the underserved in that country. Donors will pledge a dollar amount for every second he runs under 9 minutes. If someone pledges $2 and he runs two miles in 8:45, $30 would go to Real Hope for Haiti. Hunter’s mother will record him on his Instagram account so people can watch live.

Hunter’s parents adopted his older sisters, Trisha and Vania, from Haiti. They are now nurses at Fairfax Hospital, on the front lines of the covid-19 fight. When Hunter decided he wanted to raise money for health-care workers, he asked Trisha and Vania what made the most sense. They explained that Haiti could become a coronavirus hotspot, and with little health-care infrastructure, the country would need money more desperately than most anywhere.

The idea to stage an event came to Hunter recently, during videoconference calls he participates in with local cross-country teams. He listened to kids grow surprisingly vulnerable about how much they missed racing and how isolation had changed their lives. It made Hunter want to lift spirits for those in the running community, even if they didn’t have the means to donate money.

“I’m just using what I’m good at to raise money for a good cause,” Hunter said. “If it’s something you need, you can just come on to my Instagram at 5 p.m. on Thursday, you can watch me run for 8½ minutes. If that makes you smile or makes you motivated to go for a run the next day, that counts as a win.”

By providing a spiritual lift to others, Hunter also will give himself a physical challenge. Hunter never ran in the world championships last fall. He suffered a torn plantar and broken cuboid in his right foot after making the team at the U.S. championships.

He has rehabbed since last fall, and the cancellation of every competition this spring means Hunter has not run publicly in almost a year. The time-trial idea injected a competitive spark into Hunter’s training.

“To be honest, I’m terrified,” Hunter said. “I’m putting on spikes for the first time in 10 months. That’s crazy. It’s also a reminder of why I do this. That feeling of when you have nerves, when you have that, that’s a feeling to your core that you care about this. ‘I’m so nervous. How do my legs feel? Am I prepped?’ That’s why we do this: to have these feelings. I have that. I feel like I’ve lost a little bit of that.”

Hunter, whose two-mile personal best is 8:25, hopes to run somewhere between 8:30 and 8:40, but he’s entering without expectations.

“I’m just excited to celebrate my own health,” he said. “Sometimes we take running for granted. I have no idea what time I’m going to run.”

Hunter typically trains with the running group Tinman Elite in Boulder, Colorado, but he has moved back home to live with his parents in Virginia while isolating. Distance running is an ideal sport for social distancing, and his training hasn’t changed much. Rather than running with roommates and friends, he now runs alone. It reminds him of how he trained when he was younger, and how he first became an elite runner.

“I’ve always had a lot of love for that lone-wolf grind,” Hunter said. “I’ve always got a lot of confidence and swagger from that. It’s good to remind myself of my roots.”

While Hunter has been living with family, he has not seen his sisters since he moved back home. Their potential exposure to the coronavirus makes it too risky, even if they take precautions. Hunter knows Trisha and Vania will be watching him online this week. He will be running by himself but for them.

When the coronavirus prompted universities to cancel in-person classes and sporting activities in March, the Maryland football program had finished its winter conditioning program and spring practice was set to begin two weeks later. The staff is now tasked with installing its systems through videoconferencing sessions as it prepares for the 2020 season, which is filled with uncertainty regarding how, when and whether it will take place.

To keep players engaged, Locksley said the coaches have structured meetings with 15 minutes of teaching, followed by a five-minute break. The offense played a “Jeopardy!”-style game that included categories such as “protections” and “pass concepts.” Strength coaches have disseminated workouts and motivation through social media. Players would typically never go this long without seeing their coaches.

“For me being a hands-on, people-person head coach, I miss the daily interactions with our players and our coaching staff,” Locksley said in a telephone interview. “It’s been hard.”

As a second-year head coach, Locksley is still in the early stages of developing his program. Two coaches joined the team’s position staff – special teams coordinator and inside linebackers coach George Helow, along with outside linebackers coach Brawley Evans, who was promoted from an analyst position – and Maryland still has a vacancy to fill on its staff after cornerbacks coach Cory Robinson left for a job with the New Orleans Saints.

The Terps brought in 12 early enrollees, freshmen who had hoped to get a head start on their acclimation to the college game, but they didn’t get to go through spring practice. The team’s focus has been on developing the players mentally.

“The biggest loss for us was just not being able to go out and get the physical reps of installing,” Locksley said. “But instead of being concerned about what we didn’t get, we’ve tried to saturate them with as much of the install and our systems on offense, defense and special teams that we can.”

The football staffers meet within their respective departments each morning. They all come together for a 10:30 a.m. call. Various groups – from the athletic trainers to the equipment staff – provide updates to keep the program running smoothly. In the afternoons, players join the calls, meeting as they would with their units in the team facility.

Locksley’s evenings consist of recruiting calls, and even during this time, the Terps have climbed to 13th in 247 Sports’ national recruiting rankings for next year’s class.

Twice a week, Locksley hosts an Instagram Live show called “Late Night With Locks,” on which he has had guests such as Scott Van Pelt, an anchor for ESPN’s “SportsCenter” and a Maryland graduate; former Maryland players Stefon Diggs and Vernon Davis; quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, whom Locksley coached at Alabama; and professional athletes from local teams.

Here’s a look at how Locksley’s life beyond football has changed during the pandemic.

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Q. What have you added to your daily routine?

A. If you’re asking your players to do certain things, then as coaches, we need to lead by example. I’ve taken on the challenge of developing a workout plan and being on schedule. I wake up in the morning, I usually do some form of cardio or lifting six days out of the week. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday is lifting with a little cardio. And then Monday, Wednesday, Friday is cardio.

I’ve also embarked on a second life in the media field, where I do a show on Tuesdays and Fridays on my Instagram Live. We call it “Late Night With Locks.” I bring on former players, all things DMV-related – whether it’s artists, Caps, Wizards, Ravens, Orioles – to create some content that keeps us in the forefront with these recruits in this area since we have their undivided attention and there’s not a lot of things they can be doing. We’re trying to stay relevant in that space to show the power of what the Maryland relationships are all about.

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Q. Who’s helping you with your workout plan?

A. One of my close friends is a personal trainer – Myron Flowers, who works over at the St. James facility [in Springfield, Virginia]. Luckily for me, I have a gym here at the house that I’m able to go in. He has the ability to keep me accountable to getting up and doing it. He’s been really persistent. I’ve been really consistent and haven’t missed a day of training.

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Q. Who are your most ambitious picks for people you would like to come on “Late Night With Locks”?

A. I would say Lamar Jackson, John Wall, [Alex] Ovechkin, [rapper] Shy Glizzy, guys like that. I like all things DMV. John Wall would be an interesting conversation, just like Lamar Jackson and the year he had with the Ravens would be really, really interesting.

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Q. Have you learned anything new around the house?

A. When this pandemic hit, my wife had flown down to Florida, where we have a place. She met my daughter, who’s a soccer player at Auburn, for the end of her spring break. That’s when everything kind of hit the fan here. They wound up down there in Florida, so I’ve been here solo for the most part.

I’ve had the task of having to learn the washing machine. They’re not like the washing machines I grew up with, where you just put the soap on top, turn it on and pull a knob up. These fancy ones, you’ve got to know which slot the stuff goes into. I had no clue where to put the detergent in the fancy washer that we have because there are like three different slots. I had to FaceTime her to figure that out.

Then I had to figure out how to use the dishwasher. I grew up in the age where I was the dishwasher. I had to figure out how to load the soap in a little dispenser there. I’ve gained an appreciation for the amount of work it takes to keep up the home and still find time to fix something to eat and cook for myself and grill out. I’ve picked up a lot of domestic experience being quarantined here by myself.