Day 147

• The American Federation of Teachers is actually proposing that if the nation's schools are forced open, you may see a NATIONAL TEACHERS STRIKE.
• A massive party was broken up on Sunday at Mulholland Drive in LA after not only three people got shot, but the entire situation appears to have spread the coronavirus in that area and that of the attendees.
• The Miami Marlins returned to MLB today with 18 new players -- and a 4-0 win.
• Colorado State's football team is claiming the university, citing the "need" for football, is covering up the risk to the players.
• Speaking of Colorado, the state has become the ninth high-school sanctioning body to change it's football season into a spring season this school year.  They are proposing an eight week regular season in March and April of 2021.
• Earlier yesterday, Minnesota threw in the towel on 2020 high school football as well.
• They join (Southern) California, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia and Washington in moving high-school football to the spring.
• The District of Columbia as done so as well.
• Hawaii is still suspending all high-school athletic activities on a week-to-week basis.
• People had better get the damn idea that this is probably going to mean that schools just are not going to be able to meet at all.  We're already getting disaster stories coming out of Georgia...    
• About 3/4 of the University of Idaho football team have been reported that they do NOT wish to play in a Fall season, due to the virus.
• The Sun Belt is proposing an 8-game conference season and a full 12-game regular season -- one of the first conferences to propose as such.
• Somebody got stupid yesterday and decided to fly a drone into the stadium where the Twins and Pirates played yesterday.  The game was temporarily stopped in the fifth inning.  *facepalm*    
• Interesting news out of Detroit:  The NFL has now declared that Matthew Stafford coronavirus positive (based on further testing) a false positive. 
• Rafael Nadal has also withdrawn from this year's US Open of tennis. 
• The Madrid Open clay-court tournament has been called off for this year.
• The University of Connecticut has CANCELLED the football program for 2020-21.   First FBS program to walk away.  I do wonder how many FBS programs will walk of any real importance, however.  (In short, no one will miss UConn Football without being a UConn alum.)     
• To give you an indication of how much college football may be "Relevant Teams And Conferences Only", the Big Ten, at the same time UConn called it's season off, announced the backbone of it's 10-game conference season.  Start around Labor Day, two definite off weeks, and four extra weeks built into the schedule in case games have to be postponed. 
• I, earlier, scoffed at even a 25% full Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Indy 500 in a little over two weeks.  They have announced today:  Sanity wins.  No fans for this year's 500.