Gary Cosby Jr/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
Nick Saban, the college football coach who revived Alabama into a national power, returned to work on Saturday — just in time for one of the most important games of the season — after doctors said that he had not been infected with the coronavirus after all.
Saban’s status for the second-ranked Crimson Tide’s game Saturday night against No. 3 Georgia had been in doubt since Wednesday, when he announced that he had tested positive for the virus. But on Saturday morning, after a succession of tests showed Saban not to have the virus, Alabama said its medical team had concluded that the coach had received a false positive result on Wednesday.