Associated Press

By Carla K. Johnson, Astrid Galvan and Dave Skretta
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Are you ready for some football?
The kickoff of the NFL season Thursday with 17,000 fans in the stadium illustrates the nation’s det […]

By Barry Wilner
Van Morrison sang about going “Into the Mystic.”
The Grateful Dead called it a “long, strange trip” in “Truckin’.”
The young women in “Frozen” contemplated “Into The Unknown.”
Whatever […]

The Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals will be allowed to have 6,000 fans at two home games this season.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Saturday that the teams have been granted a variance for a “two-game t […]

By Barry Wilner
The coronavirus pandemic could lead to pandemonium on offensive lines throughout the NFL.
With no on-field offseason programs, no preseason games, no extensive hitting in training camps, chaos […]

By Barry Wilner
Let’s get this straight from the outset: If the NFL has no fans at any games this season — or doesn’t have much of a season at all — it will not go out of business.
Sure, the 32 teams and the lea […]

By John Zenor
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — With masks, social distancing and mostly empty stands, the college football season kicked off COVID-19 style.
Austin Peay and Central Arkansas, two teams fresh from FCS p […]

By Ralph Russo
Big Ten coaches, athletic directors and medical personnel are working on multiple plans for staging a football season — including one that would have the league kicking off as soon as T […]

By Barry Wilner
Never has the NFL doubted it would open its season on time. For months, it has steadfastly stuck to its plans, even as the coronavirus pandemic has altered the course of every other sport — on a […]

By Dennis Waszak Jr.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Empty practice fields made for loud and powerful statements at nine facilities across the NFL.
The Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, Green Bay P […]

A team-by-team look at the policies for NFL fans attending games in the 2020 regular season. (As of Aug. 25, 2020).

Arizona — Team hasn’t publicly discussed plans for fans.

Atlanta — No fans in Septe […]

By Tim Dahlberg
Up until this weekend, the biggest news out of NFL training camps was that there hadn’t been any big news.
No wave of star players testing positive for COVID-19. No mass outbreaks of the virus d […]

The impact of the coronavirus on college athletics stretches from coast to coast, to schools big and small. Some of the details as compiled by The Associated Press.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Division I football games […]

By Ralph Russo
College athletes who play fall sports, including football, will be given a free year of eligibility no matter how much they compete over the next 10 months if an NCAA recommendation is approved […]

By Arnie Stapleton

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (AP) — From the antimicrobial mist the Denver Broncos strolled through on their way to the practice fields to the hand-held whistles for masked-up coaches, NFL training c […]

By Dave Campbell

Like a defense stiffening at the goal line late in the game, the NFL has implemented a wide array of health protocols designed to keep the coronavirus from wrecking the 2020 season scheduled to […]

(AP) – The NCAA called off fall championship events — a move Thursday that does not affect major college football — because not enough schools will be competing in sports such as men’s and women’s soccer and wom […]

By Ralph Russo
Back in April, not long after the NCAA basketball tournaments were canceled because of the pandemic, the idea of moving the college football season to the spring of 2021 already was being tossed […]

By Ralph Russo
A crumbling college football season took a massive hit Tuesday when the Big Ten and Pac-12, two historic and powerful conferences, succumbed to the pandemic and canceled their fall football […]

By Ralph Russo
President Donald Trump on Monday joined a U.S. senator and a number of coaches calling to save the college football season from a pandemic-forced shutdown as supporters pushed the premise that the […]

Best advice I’ve received since COVID-19: “Be patient. Take time when making decisions. This is all new & you’ll gain better information each day.” @SEC has been deliberate at each step since March…slowed return to practice…delayed 1st game to respect start of fall semester..

— Greg Sankey (@GregSankey) August 10, 2020

By Ralph Russo

The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first league competing at college football’s highest level to cancel its fall season because of COVID-19 concerns.

A person with knowledge o […]