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College soccer gamers at a crossroads as US charts route in COVID-19 era
Sports Posted ‘It’s disappointing,’ University of Michigan defensive back, Hunter Reynolds, says of the Big 10’s decision to sack the upcoming college football season. The Big 12 is among those definitely moving forward with the fall season. (Produced by Dan Fastenberg)
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College soccer avid gamers at a crossroads as US charts direction in COVID-19 generation | Reuters Video
Sports & Leisure Posted ‘It’s disappointing,’ University of Michigan defensive back, Hunter Reynolds, says of the Big 10’s decision to sack the upcoming college football season. The Big 12 is among those definitely moving forward with the fall season. (Produced by Dan Fastenberg)
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U.S. university insured Chinese language student tuition towards virus. Then COVID-19 hit
(Reuters) – After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his school: Chinese graduate students. Jeffrey Brown, dean of the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, poses at the school in…
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Nine soccer players at College of Oklahoma take a look at sure for COVID-19
(Reuters) – Nine football student-athletes from the University of Oklahoma tested positive for COVID-19, head coach Lincoln Riley said on Saturday, amid fierce national debate over the viability of a fall college football season. FILE PHOTO: A view of the Ohio State university football facilities as the Big Ten postpones their 2020-21 fall sports season,…
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UPDATE 1-Nine soccer avid gamers at College of Oklahoma take a look at certain for COVID-19
(Adds remarks from Trump) By Amy Tennery Aug 15 (Reuters) – Nine football student-athletes from the University of Oklahoma tested positive for COVID-19, head coach Lincoln Riley said on Saturday, amid fierce national debate over the viability of a fall college football season. Oklahoma’s Big 12 Conference said this week it would move forward with…
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U.S. Expansive Ten postpones 2020-21 football, fall sports season, due to COVID-19
(Reuters) – Two of the five wealthiest U.S. college sports conferences postponed the fall football season on Tuesday because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a critical blow to both an iconic American cultural tradition and a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry. The Big Ten and Pac-12 powerhouse members include perennial national football title contenders like the University…
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Trump requires faculty football to play on without reference to COVID-19 fears
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One as he departs from Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., August 9, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts(Reuters) – President Donald Trump called on U.S. colleges to proceed with the fall football season amid reports on Monday that it could be canceled because of concerns…
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Colleges Put together to Check Thousands of Students for Covid-19
In April, just a few weeks after the spring semester pivoted unceremoniously to digital, Catherine Klapperich, a biomedical engineering professor at Boston University, was thinking about the fall. The Boston area had been inundated with Covid-19 cases, and at the time, tests remained scant. But the university had come to her with an unfathomable question:…
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After Cruise Ships and Nursing Properties, Will Universities Be the Next COVID-19 Tinderboxes?
The fall semester has yet to begin, but student athletes training for the season can already be found on college campuses across the U.S. And so can COVID-19. Since the start of July there have been at least two outbreaks among student athletes, coaches, and staff—with 37 infected at the University of North Carolina (UNC)…
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Colleges are racing to invent ‘a brand unique sense of normalcy.’ Will unique guidelines, COVID-19 sorting out be adequate?
CLOSE College teachers and students discuss some of the challenges they face as their classes move online for the foreseeable future. USA TODAYSAN DIEGO — When students arrive at the University of California San Diego in August, they will find coronavirus testing stations strategically planted throughout campus.To determine if they’ve been infected, they’ll take a swab, dab it with nasal…