College Football
Morehouse College located in Atlanta announced today it will be cancelling its football and cross country seasons this fall due to Covid-19. Morehouse College is a Division Two school and joins Division Three’s Bowdoin College in cancelling its season.
NBA
Sources tell ESPN 16 NBA players of 302 tested have tested positive for Covid-19. The league began mandatory testing for those teams heading to Orlando for the rest of the season earlier this week. Any player who tested positive will remain in self-isolation until he satisfies public health protocols for discontinuing isolation and has been cleared by a physician. The NBA is scheduled to resume its season late next month.
PGA Tour
Golf Channel reports after firing a 67 Thursday, Denny McCarthy withdrew from the Travelers Championship today. McCarthy said he woke up during the night and felt achy and sore and tested positive for Covid-19 this morning. He’s the third PGA Tour player to test positive for Covid-19. Bud Cauley, who played with McCarthy on Thursday, also withdrew before Friday’s second round after two negative tests as a precaution. The third member of the group-Matt Wallace-is continuing to play.
Tennis
Tennis great Goran Ivanisevic says he has tested positive for Covid-19. The former Wimbledon champion coaches top-ranked Novak Djokovic and was at the recent Adria Tour exhibition series in Serbia and Croatia. Ivanisevic, who won the Wimbledon title in 2001 says he twice tested negative for the virus over the past 10 days but has now tested positive. He says he has no symptoms but will self-isolate.
Auto Racing
The Indianapolis 500 will run in August with 50% fan capacity, a total that could still hit six figures at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The facility can pack about 250,000 fans in the spacious speedway, leaving plenty of room if the total is limited to half that total. The Indy 500 was bumped from its traditional May date because of the pandemic. The 104th Indy 500 will run August 23rd.