Amid recent protests around the sports world, WKU Football Head Coach Tyson Helton canceled Thursday’s practice.
“We had a team meeting this afternoon regarding the current events in our country,” Helton said in a press release. “We had very constructive conversation among our players and coaches.”
Earlier in the week Jacob Blake, a young, Black man from Kenosha, Wisconsin was fatally shot seven times in the back by local police.
Wednesday, protests around sports began when the Milwaukee Bucks did not leave the locker room for game five of the first round of the NBA playoffs.