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Tuesday was another rough day in what has been an extremely rough year as the Pac-12 and the Big Ten officially announced that fall sports, including football, have been canceled.
While those decisions had been expected by many for quite some time – thanks to the inability of our government to properly handle a pandemic – it still stung pretty hard finding out that the upcoming college football season is going to be without two of the major conferences.
The SEC, ACC, and Big-12 are still moving forward but by now we all have to wonder when we’re going to see a tweet saying those conferences are going to be holding a press conference to make their own official announcements.
The loss of college fall sports stinks. It stinks for the players in all the sports who have worked so hard to get to live out their dreams. It stinks for the fans who live for college football Saturdays. And it stinks for our country, which continues to stink at dealing with the coronavirus.
This upcoming college football season, if it happens at all, is going to be anything but normal and there won’t be a true champion no matter what happens in a few months.
These are all just sports, of course. The most important things to focus on right now is the health and safety of everyone as we continue to battle a deadly disease that has killed over 160,000 Americans.
But these sports mean so much to everyone and once again the games we love the most are being shelved because we just couldn’t be smart enough as a country over the past five months.
Now who knows what the fall is going to look like, but it doesn’t really make sense for the NFL to take over Saturdays. And it doesn’t really make sense to have these college conferences to play in the spring, either.
Tuesday stunk. Wednesday could stink, too. And Saturdays in the fall are going to be lonely for a lot of people.
Ugh.
Tuesday’s biggest winner: The families of the Phoenix Suns.
The Phoenix Suns haven’t lost a game in the NBA bubble and on Tuesday the team also won the best moment from Orlando as the Suns surprised the players by having their family members do the player introductions. The players had the best reactions to seeing their loved ones and then they went out and beat the 76ers to go to 7-0 in the bubble.
Quick hits: Giannis ejected for headbutt… Urban Meyer’s awkward moment… D-Wade mocks LeBron… Blockbuster’s random tweet.
– Giannis Antetokounmpo got ejected for viciously headbutting Moe Wagner in the face.
– Urban Meyer was on live TV when a half-naked guy walked into his office and the former coach was not impressed.
– Dwyane Wade hilariously made fun of LeBron James for his open-shirt pregame look in Orlando.
– Blockbuster tweeted on Tuesday for the first time in six years and everyone had jokes.