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The NFLPA Has
Andy Reid Has No Plans To Retire From NFL Any Time Soon
ANDY REID
Andy Reid has been a
head coach in the NFL since 1999, and he has no plans to retire any time soon.
Reid’s Kansas City Chiefs announced a major move on Monday when they signed Patrick Mahomes to a 10- year contract extension. Prior to signing, Mahomes wanted assurances that Reid would continue to stick around as the team’s head coach. Ma- homes says the assurance from Reid played a big role in him signing.
Ivy League Rules Out Playing All Sports This Fall Due To Coronavirus
The Ivy League announced Wednesday that it has ruled out playing all sports this fall, becoming the first Division I conference to say it will not hold sports this upcoming se- mester because of the coron- avirus pandemic.
No decision has been made about winter or spring Ivy sports or whether fall sports could be played in the spring of 2021.
"The campus policies make it impractical for com- petition to occur, at least through the end of the fall se- mester," executive director Robin Harris told ESPN. "That's why today we're an- nouncing. Eight campuses have announced their policies for the fall over the past two weeks. When we realized and the presidents realized based on these campus policies that we couldn't have competition, we wanted to make sure the student-athletes were aware of the outcome.
"It's certainly the right de- cision for the Ivy League, but it's difficult."
Bruce Arians: 'The
Going To All Get Sick'
Voted To Cancel
Players, They're
The Preseason
Bruce Arians delivered a stunning quote Tuesday about the COVID-19 pandemic and how he believes it will impact his coaching staff and players on the Tampa Bay Bucca- neers.
Arians is 67 and has a veteran staff, including offen- sive consultant Tom Moore (81), safeties coach Nick Rapone (64), and quarter- backs coach Clyde Chris- tensen (64).
Arians, who spent a year in the booth with CBS before returning to the sidelines in Tampa, fears for his players.
“Tom (Moore) is proba- bly the healthiest one of all of us,” Arians told the Tampa Bay Times. “We’ve got to be careful. The players, they’re going to all get sick, that’s for sure. It’s just a matter of how
The debate among league leaders and the NFLPA con- tinued Friday when the player’s union voted Friday to cancel the preseason.
After players continue to raise concerns about playing football this season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NFL Players Association leaders decided to vote on what to do with the preseason and de- cided it’d be best to cancel the preseason entirely.
Part of the vote to cancel the preseason was a plan to have some kind of a condi- tioning program that would take place of the games and spread out in weeks.
The first stage would be medical physicals for all play- ers upon reporting to camp, which would last three days. The following 21 days would make up the second stage, a
strength and conditioning program to prepare the play- ers’ bodies for a return to football activity. From there, teams would move to a third stage that would resemble OTAs in which players would participate in 10 days of non- contact, non-padded prac- tices before eventually shifting to a 14-day fourth stage that would be focused on what camp traditionally looks like, with potentially 10 total practices with a maxi- mum of eight padded prac- tices.
BRUCE ARIANS
sick they get.”
“All my team meetings,
we’ll do in the indoor facility like a big auditorium and I’ll use a microphone, which I hate using, but I have to,” Ar- ians said. “If I’m going to take my mask off, I’ve got to be far enough away to get my point across and the Bucs have some big TV screens to put my messages on.”
Pandemic
Anti-Semitic Messages
DeSean Jackson Shares
Second Apology For
DeSean Jackson
shared a second apology on social media Tuesday for the anti-Semitic messages he has been spreading via Insta- gram.
Jackson came to atten- tion after sharing anti-Se- mitic messages on his Instagram page the past few days. The Philadelphia Ea- gles wide receiver may have been inspired to share the anti-Semitic messages while studying the preaching of Louis Farrakhan, who is the leader of the Nation of Islam, which is recognized as a hate group due in part to its anti-Semitic messages.
Jackson’s first apology seemed more casual than his second apology.
In his second apology, Jackson apologized directly to the Jewish community, the Eagles, the team’s owner, GM, and head coach, and the fans.
DESEAN JACKSON
Some of Jackson’s posts and his first apology all seem to point to the receiver not even recognizing he was spreading anti-Semitic mes- sages. The original passage he shared was incorrectly at- tributed to Adolf Hitler and accused Jewish people of blackmailing and extorting America as a plan for world domination.
In his first apology, Jack- son did not even seem to rec- ognize that the passage he quoted was not even written nor said by Hitler.
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