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Ivy League cancels ALL fall sports
https://sportsnaut.com/2020/07/ivy-league-cancels-fall-sports-including-college-football-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/ ^ | 7/8/20 | Matt Johnson

Posted on 07/08/2020 2:24:41 PM PDT by Redmen4ever

The Ivy League is cancelling its fall sports, including college football, becoming the first major sports league to suspend ...

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To: Freeze923
swapping Baseball, Track, and golf to the fall and playing Football and volleyball in the spring

That is an idea worth investigating. At least it's creative thinking around the problem, not just giving up.

PGA Tour golf is in its fourth or fifth week already. They haven't had fans yet, but they are playing competitive golf.

21 posted on 07/08/2020 3:03:21 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Secret Agent Man
there go college scholarships for sports

If other sports cancel, yeah, but the Ivys don't have athletic scholarships. They also don't allow weekday football games or post season games, and severely curtail off season activities.

As many things as bug me about the Ivys, they have a proper perspective on athletics. At those schools, they really are student athletes.

22 posted on 07/08/2020 3:05:18 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: Bookshelf
Thanks to Covid, I think millions of American males have learned that they can live without pro sports. College sports are next.

Not just thanks to WuFlu, and not just the males...

23 posted on 07/08/2020 3:06:00 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Redmen4ever

Without the revenue that Fall football brings, I suspect there will be a lot of Spring sports that won’t get funded...


24 posted on 07/08/2020 3:08:53 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: Redmen4ever

But they didn’t cancel the protesting.

ANTIFA and BLM can go out without mask all year long. No problem.


25 posted on 07/08/2020 3:10:18 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Redmen4ever
#WINNING.

And maybe #WHINING too. :-P

26 posted on 07/08/2020 3:13:31 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: dfwgator

I heard on a San Antonio radio station that Octoberfests in the area have been cancelled.

I guess everything will be cancelled up until election day.

Except blm riots and suicides.


27 posted on 07/08/2020 3:14:33 PM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: Richard Kimball

The Ivy League schools still have Indian cheating and Communist Chinese cheating as competitive events...


28 posted on 07/08/2020 3:20:43 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
What will the alumni do now?

"Muffy in the bathroom stall,
Margaret by the lake.
Susan down in Whitley Hall,
Constance on the make.

Constance Fry, Constance Fry, anytime you call.
Constance would fulfil, your needs –
Winter, Spring or Fall."

29 posted on 07/08/2020 3:22:28 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Redmen4ever
What, no Lacrosse or field hockey?
30 posted on 07/08/2020 3:27:50 PM PDT by razorback-bert (This year shall be known as PANIC of 20.)
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To: razorback-bert

Private universities are bailing:

tanford announced Wednesday that it is dropping 11 sports amid financial difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The school will discontinue men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball and wrestling after the 2020-21 academic year. Stanford also is eliminating 20 support staff positions. [Men’s volleyball a big surprise.]
Stanford projected a deficit of more than $25 million in the 2021 fiscal year and a shortfall of nearly $70 million over the next three years due to the pandemic. The school estimated the cost of sustaining the 11 sports permanently would exceed $200 million.


31 posted on 07/08/2020 3:34:48 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Redmen4ever

Back breaker to college fall sports! /Heavy S


32 posted on 07/08/2020 3:38:17 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: Redmen4ever

I’m mostly neutral as it really doesn’t affect me one way or the other.


33 posted on 07/08/2020 3:38:52 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Quentin Quarantino

Excellent!!!


34 posted on 07/08/2020 3:39:20 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: Redmen4ever

Has Soccer been eliminated or is there a evil socialist scheme to make Socialist Scoccer the only game that remains?


35 posted on 07/08/2020 3:43:07 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Redmen4ever

The Ivy League is a “major sports” league?

Who knew?


36 posted on 07/08/2020 4:04:57 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: Redmen4ever

There is a talent gap between the Ivy League and the P5 conferences.

The Ivy League may be in sunset. Their billions in booster funds will keep them alive for a while.


37 posted on 07/08/2020 4:13:56 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Freee-dame

“PGA Tour golf is in its fourth or fifth week already. They haven’t had fans yet, but they are playing competitive golf.”

And all the BLM/leftist virtue signaling from their commissioner, sponsors and CBS has been so heartwarming. /src


38 posted on 07/08/2020 4:17:49 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: LaRueLaDue
The Ivy League is a “major sports” league?

Depends on the sport. For Lacrosse, Cornell is often in the Top Ten along with Duke, Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, etc.

39 posted on 07/08/2020 4:19:49 PM PDT by Fury (.)
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To: Redmen4ever

40 posted on 07/08/2020 4:21:18 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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