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“I couldn’t imagine finding out right now that our season was canceled,” said Jimmy Boeheim’s brother, Buddy. “All the hard work he’s put in this summer. We worked out every day together. I was really looking forward to see what he was going to do this year. He was going to have a big year.”
This increasing activism represents a positive development. Athletes deserve to have a voice on social issues that are often deeply personal to them.
“The people of Ohio are very proud of me,” the president said regarding his alleged involvement in the Big Ten season. Of course, Ohio, a key battleground state, is home to Big Ten contender The Ohio State University, whose fanbase is theoretically composed of voters who Trump hopes will fill in the bubble next to his name on Election Day to swing the state red.
This isn’t about contact tracing and the annoyance of quarantining for 14 days. It is about the fact that Justin Turner knew conclusively that he had COVID-19, a virus that has killed 230,000 Americans this year, and he still went out and subjected a field full of people to the possibility of contracting it.
The NFL’s refusal to adopt a bubble format and its lax enforcement of COVID-19 protocols jeopardizes the health and safety of players and staff across the league.
Even down several key players from last year’s campaign prior to the potential upcoming season, Cornell is regarded as a top-10 squad.
If Cornell men’s hockey has a 2020-21 season, Tristan Mullin will wear the ‘C’ and Kyle Betts, Cody Haiskanen and Brenden Locke will wear the ‘A.’
“To play in the spring, those other seven schools are going to have to invite their classes back,” Archer added. “You have to ask the medical people, ‘Is playing football medically appropriate to play in the spring season and then turn around and play in the fall?’
Cornell’s dominant lineup was well-rewarded for their record-breaking success during the season.
The NBA and NHL showed us how we could bring back sports in a pandemic while mitigating risk. The MLB proved that there will be COVID-19 cases if we resist using the bubble format. The NFL is throwing caution to the wind.
The new Cornellians will fill the void left by six skaters who graduated last spring, including three Patty Kazmaier Award nominees in defensemen Jaime Bourbonnais and Micah Zandee-Hart and forward Kristin O’Neill.
