Despite the coronavirus pandemic that has put a halt to the majority of the sports world, Ike Forte wasn't going to miss his induction at the 62nd annual Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame banquet Friday night at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
"I'm a Christian. I don't live in fear," said Forte, a former University of Arkansas football player. "If I were to catch something, then it's meant to be. If I don't catch anything, then it's meant to be.
"I'm going to wash my hands. My kids are going to wash their hands."
Attendance was limited to the inductees, their families and close friends and a group of former inductees because of concerns about coronavirus, said Terri Conder Johnson, the Hall of Fame's executive director.