Professional athletes trying to
play with COVID-19 all about is one thing, college athletes for all intents and
purposes being made to quite another. As
ever, give me the pros.
Baseball players have negotiated a
health protocol that, knock on wood, seems to be working; football players are
trying to do the same, and it looks like hockey and basketball will get there
soon enough. Then I read about the
University of Illinois laying out new rules for football. Heaven help us.
No tailgating, no big crowds (never
a problem at Champaign-Urbana), everybody in the stands wears a mask. And that will do what, exactly? Fans won’t get together off-site to party
before a game? Right. Students and players won’t get together the
night after a game to party? Right again.
The Illinois athletic
department promises aggressive testing of its athletes. In that case, it won’t take long to see just
how bad things are.
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