Former Enquirer reporter
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about sports in the pandemic year of 2020 it’s that anything goes.
In college basketball, the NCAA Tournament was cancelled in March and never restarted due to Covid-19. But nine months later, with even more Covid cases ravaging the country, a fresh regular season continues unabated.
In college football, the Big Ten Conference announced on August 11 that it wouldn’t risk the health of its student-athletes by allowing them to play football during a pandemic only to change its mind after deciding that the student-athletes’ health isn’t as important as keeping the TV money flowing.