Lincoln Journal-Star · Aug 9, 2020
Steven M. Sipple: Big Ten schedule release calms Twitter waters -- for about 48 hours
Nebraska players prepare to take the field against Michigan in 2018 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Will there be college football in the fall? What will it look like? Players, coaches and fans have had to wade through a sea of false alarms, about-face decision-making, conflicting reports and just plain uncertainty as the sports world tries to cope with a pandemic.At 5:38 p.m. Saturday, a friend who happens to be a Power Five basketball coach calls my cell with urgency in his tone.
He had just read something on his phone. Some sort of news report.
"They're fixin' to cancel the football season in the Big Ten," he said. "Presidents are meeting."
Old news, I tell him.
Fake news.