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

Hampton University in Virginia, now a Big South member, has cancelled fall sports. The statement says they hope to resume sports during the spring semester of 2021 with both winter and spring sports.

 

I tried to watch the Braves' intrasquad game last night. There was no stadium noise... not just crowd noise ... they didn't have mics on the field. It was terrible, and I stopped after the first inning.

 

Well, it was a frigging intersquad baseball game.....

 

That's actually true. Normandy wasn't all that vital (ducking).

 

Which is more than we've seen in months.

 

I thought Arkanpig was a character from The Hobbit.

 

In Arkansas, the flagship university is in Fayetteville and UAMS is in Little Rock. I don’t know if it’s any bigger than the Baptist or St. Vincent systems in the state.

 

It's been like that on some EPL matches as well. I've started streaming the games off NBCSN's website with the natural sound instead of the fake crowd one.

Baptist in Little Rock has 700 or so beds to UAMS with 500 or so. Add in the associated campuses and Baptist is much larger. Not sure about St. Vincent, I think it's just a bit smaller than Baptist.

 

Ole Miss handles Mississippi's medical school. The main teaching hospital is in Jackson.

 

You can play football. You just have to triage properly at the hospitals.

1a. Torn ACLs
1b. Torn MCLs
3. COVID-19

 

Deck chairs, Titanic ...

SEC announces volleyball, soccer, cross country seasons are postponed

 

Terrible headline. Accurate but terrible and out of context. It's the web. Surely they could have added "until Aug. 31" at the end. If you look at it as it is, you assume -- at least I did -- that they were kicking the seasons until the spring.

The really interesting thing is whether the SEC or any other league will have the balls to say it's too dangerous to play soccer or volleyball (an indoor sport featuring close, unmasked contact at the net) but safe enough to play football.