Much as with wearing masks and reopening schools, Trump has turned playing football into yet another battle of the culture wars. Such battles make reasoned debate difficult, but they do force nearly every American paying attention to choose a side.
on the Associated Press’s ranking of the nation’s top 25 teams. “I understand that everyone wants football back,” Dr. Baker tells Yahoo News. But wanting is not enough. “As a society, we don’t have this under control enough.”
“Like millions of sports fans across the nation, President Trump is eager to see college football return this fall,” White House spokesperson Judd Deere told Yahoo News in response to questions about why the president was focusing on that sport. “The fans want it and the coaches want it, but most importantly the players want to play and there are ways to do so safely.”
. There are also the repercussions, about which nobody is yet certain because the coronavirus has not been around long enough for researchers to study. Doctors worry that the coronavirus could subject athletes to a serious heart condition called myocarditis.the newly appointed “That’s not enough,” Baker of Virginia Tech says of Florida State’s plan. “A lot of things can happen in two weeks. That’s really not that great of an idea.”
“At the end of the day, this is a season that these student-athletes will not be able to get back,” DeSantisconservative commentator Clay Travis, who has repeatedly tried to downplay the effects of the pandemic. He not only wants players back on the field but fans back in stadiums like Florida State’s Bobby Bowden Field, which can seat 80,000 people. There will be fans at Bowden Field, confirmed DeSantis spokesman Fred Piccolo Jr. to Yahoo News.
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