ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference will not play its football schedule this fall due to a reaction to the Chinese coronavirus by member presidents. All 2020-21 fall sports – including football – are postponed until the spring. “While I know our decision today will be disappointing in many ways for our thousands of…
Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields started a petition demanding the Big Ten immediately reinstate the 2020 football season, a petition that had more than 104,000 signatures as of Sunday. The petition argues that players think the safety protocols are sufficient to deal with the level of danger from the coronavirus. And the petition said players…
San Francisco – The Pac-12 CEO Group voted unanimously to postpone all sport competitions – including college football – through the end of the 2020 calendar year. “Another incomprehensible consequence of an unprecedented time,” USC athletic director Mike Bohn “We wanted to play, we wanted to coach, and we still hope for the opportunity to…
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said the conference is doing everything it can to safely play football in the fall. Sankey said that the conference’s presidents and chancellors have been given a green light by their medical advisory group to proceed with preseason preparation.
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota – The Summit League President’s Council voted unanimously to postpone the regular season and championships for the fall sports of men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer and volleyball to the spring of 2021. “This is an outcome that no one wanted to see, however, it was necessary based…
The Great American Conference’s Council of Presidents voted tol suspend all fall and winter sports – basketball, cross country, football, soccer and volleyball – and the two-semester sports of golf and tennis through December 31. Oklahoma members include East Central University in Ada, Northwestern Oklahoma State in Alva, Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Southeastern State…
“It’s a fluid situation.” That will be a term that becomes synonymous with the year 2020. In other words, “schedules are subject to change,” or the way I’ve been looking at it, “don’t bother getting your hopes up, because it’s all going to change anyway.” That’s about all that can be said for not only…
This past Saturday, I had the honor of filling in for Charley Biggs, as host of the Tulsa Beacon Weekend radio program. My guest was Oral Roberts University President, Dr. Billy Wilson, who shed some light on what ORU has done to prepare for students to return to campus, and how to proceed with athletics….
The Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team may not play a full slate of 12 games this fall after their opening game with Toledo was canceled. Toledo is a member of the Mid-America Conference and that league has postponed its football schedule until the spring. TU and Toledo were playing a home-and-home series that started in…
Thanks to a decision by the Big 12 Conference, Oklahoma’s football team will not travel play Army this fall. And OU will move its home game with Missouri State probably to Sept. 5 or 12 because MSU’s league, the Mid-America Conference voted to move its conference football schedule to the spring. It will allow teams…