- Maxpreps.com has a list of the current status of all 50 states for high school sports this Fall. Relevant decisions made so far: (With any states not listed awaiting word from the health authorities, adamnant they will try normal schedule, and/or still to make a decision...)
- Arizona: School year start pushed back to at least August 17th -- football, etc., will be delayed accordingly (FB first game was to be Aug. 20th.)
- California: Announced yesterday. All sports off until January. However, the Northern Section will break from the CIF this year and try to play the Fall seasons as scheduled. We'll see about that -- the very fact California has made this decision is indicative of very real concern it might be December or January before any real in-person instruction can take place!
- DC: All sports cancelled until 2021. Winter sports begin in January, Fall sports in February.
- Florida: Task force (by a narrow margin) appears to be ready to postpone Fall sports about a month, so far...
- Georgia: Football delayed two weeks. All other Fall sports start on time. Full seasons planned.
- Hawaii: All sports activities suspended on a rolling basis. Continuing evaluations, indefinite duration.
- Louisiana: Strong dispute between at least one state senator, who wants the California/DC model, and the LHSAA sanctioning body, who says "We need high school sports." Why?
- Mississippi: Delayed Fall sports two weeks.
- Nevada: The top national high-school volleyball tournament has been cancelled. No other plans are known at this time.
- New Jersey: Six-game football season to start October 1.
- New Mexico: Cancelled until at least January.
- New York: At least a one-month postponement, all state Fall championships cancelled this year. Contingency plans not unlike the CIF's are already in place in case they are needed.
- South Carolina: Beginning of practice moved back three weeks. Football cut to a seven-game schedule.
- Tennessee: Indeterminate delay will cut into the Fall sports season. Still TBD how long, at least August 29 for first practices, meaning probably at least a six-week delay.
- Texas: Has scrapped at least a month of Fall sports (practices Sept. 8, games Sept. 28).
- Virginia: Still in flux on just how, but they have confirmed both a delay in the start of sports in the Fall and that football will not happen in the Fall under any circumstances. Three possibilities appear to be in line: 1) See California, DC, and New Mexico 2) Switch the Spring and Fall seasons 3) Play low-contact social-distanced sports like golf and cross-country in the Fall.
- Washington: And
- West Virginia: About a month delay in both states.
So, by my look, that's three states, one Section of a fourth, and DC which have already at least postponed high-school football (California Southern, DC, Hawaii, New Mexico, Virginia).
- Jeremy Roenick is a fucking idiot. He has, in fact, sued NBC Sports for discriminating against him for being STRAIGHT!!! Because of sexual harassment laws, he actually has the audacity to claim that, if he were gay, he would be able to make sexual comments about the women he works with without creating a hostile work environment. Roenick was fired from NBC for making sexual comments about his wife and, I assume, a family friend swimming in bikinis with him on a hockey podcast.
- The NFL has now offered the players, to answer their concerns, the complete cancellation of the entire 2020 pre-season. They're fooling themselves, but they need to try to force the issue to get Foobaw Nation America to believe there will be a season this year. (Pro-tip: Nope.)
- The SWAC has become the first Division I (FCS) conference to move it's football season to Spring -- seven-game season after an eight-game training period, no season at all if the coronavirus is not under control by January.
- Jeff Franceour, broadcaster for the Braves, announces he's positive for the coronavirus.
- As has Todd Kalas from the Astros. Both are asymptomatic.
- The Blue Jays will play in Pittsburgh this season.
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