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As coronavirus bears down on Michigan, college football coaches brace for the worst

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There is a silver lining somewhere, and Paul Winters has found it.

The Wayne State football coach may have lost spring practice, but he has already tackled the work he usually reserves for June and July.

In some ways, he said, “I will be better prepared for a season than I ever have.”

That is if there is one.

As the novel coronavirus has rocked the country and shut down the sports world, there is growing anxiety within college athletics about the prospect of football not being played in 2020.