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'We Did a Lot Right': SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey Opens Up About Pandemic Football

MIAMI — The pandemic has, quite literally, changed Greg Sankey.

No, really, he’s a different-looking man. He’s lost 35 pounds.

The SEC commissioner has jogged at least three miles for 270 consecutive days. He’s had to buy new pants and finds himself slipping into sport coats that are now three sizes too big. On April 14, as a coping mechanism amid the burgeoning pandemic, Sankey began his daily runs—mental and physical therapy, he says. He’s jogged in snow. He’s jogged in a tropical storm. And he’s jogged on 70-degree days in January, such as Monday, when, hours before Alabama is set to kick off against Ohio State, Sankey set out for run No.