Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

Yale volleyball (i.e. The Great Wall of Sterling) must be saved!

 

The Big Row - or whatever they call it with Cal - was a decent tradition. Sad about wrestling, Puts the Pac-12 at risk on a number of levels.

Collegiate wrestling struggling to keep its foothold in the West

 

They say that. But in squash for example, Stanford calls their team varsity and North Texas calls their club and they both compete under the College Squash Association, which has 50 women's programs and 88 men's programs across all D-I, II and III programs.

Apparently there are only 11 (now 10) lightweight rowing programs in the country. You can call that a varsity sport all you want, but there's obviously not some big appeal.

 

Again, I am going to take Stanford's word over yours. I am not the one calling it varsity "all I want".

I am sure the university itself makes a distinction between club and varsity teams, which is the genesis of this announcement. What North Texas calls their teams seems immaterial to me and I would guess it didn't mean much to the administrators and athletes in Palo Alto either. Club versus varsity is far from unheard of in athletics.

If Stanford calls it varsity and you call it club, I am going to take their word for it.

 

Here's really what it comes down to, NCAA sanctioned or not: Is it part of their athletic department? If it is part of their athletic department, funded by the athletic department, supported by the athletic department the way the athletic department does all other sports, then it is a school-sanctioned varsity sport. Stanford isn't the only school that does that. Club and varsity are two very different things.

 

UAB has what looked to be the best team it has ever fielded, and it looks like football season won't happen. I won't argue if they pull the plug, I know how unsafe it is... but this sucks.

 

Still relevant to note that Clemson has kept on going with its “voluntary” workouts. Have they released any testing data lately?

 

Watching the first mls game back in Orlando.
If youre triggered by BLM, sports this summer isn't going to be good for you.
Watching MLS pregame. 5 minutes of knees and raised fists. I like it.