Updated: Notre Dame suspends spring practices, cancels Blue-Gold Game

Notre Dame made the obvious and inevitable official Thursday, suspending all spring football operations until further notice due to the continued spread of the coronavirus. The Irish were scheduled to resume practice Tuesday after players returned from spring break late Sunday.

Whatever the best-case scenario of that suspension may be, it will throw enough of a wrench into Notre Dame’s spring that the Blue-Gold Game, scheduled for April 18, was outright canceled.

“I have asked our student-athletes not to return to campus until further notice,” Irish head coach Brian Kelly said in a statement. “With our student-athletes’ health and well-being at the forefront of our decision making, and given…