Miami head coach Chuck Martin didn't get any sleep last night. But with a 38-31 win over Ball State, despite losing starting quarterback Brett Gabbert, Martin can rest easy.
Miami football will make its grand return to Yager Stadium Wednesday, Nov. 4, against Ball State. The defending MAC Champs start the year in pole position, ranked as the preseason No. 1 team in the MAC East. Despite the success of the previous season, the team has no delusions of grandeur and is fully aware of the challenge that awaits it.
The puck will drop on a new Miami RedHawks hockey season Dec. 1 or 2 in Omaha, Nebraska, in a bubble-like environment. The team enters the 2020-21 season relatively inexperienced, but ready to improve on its 8-21-5 record from last year.
MACtion is back, as Miami looks to defend its conference championship. Chuck Martin's goal? "Win every MAC game. Like, that is the goal."
We thought we weren't going to have a season. Instead, Miami football is back and better than ever. And with the RedHawks returning key pieces from last year's conference championship bid, the team has the upside to defend their title again this year.
Every single player and coach for the Miami RedHawks will wear masks on the field this season. “(Wearing a mask) isn’t fun, but it keeps us safe, and it’s gonna help keep me from getting (COVID) if one of my teammates gets it,” redshirt junior safety Sterling Weatherford said. “And I want to play football, so I’ll do what it takes.”
The NBA won't be the only sport to play in a bubble this year, as Miami hockey gets set to start its season on Dec. 1 in "pod" environment in Omaha, Neb.
For the first time since the Mid-American Conference announced the return of football this fall on Sept. 25, the Miami RedHawks felt like football players again.
Last April, Nike Sibande entered the transfer portal, eventually deciding to play at the University of Pittsburgh. He filed for a transfer waiver to be able to play for Pitt this season, as opposed to sitting out a year in occurrence with the standard transfer rules, but the NCAA denied his request. Sibande is now appealing the NCAA's decision.
The RedHawks will start the season against Ball State on Nov. 4.
On Sept. 25, the Mid-American Conference brought back football after initially deciding to postpone it to the spring. Now, it’s left with a lot of planning to do and a lot of uncertainty to deal with.
Disappointment ran high in the Miami community when the Mid-American Conference (MAC) postponed its fall sports season early last month, but recent developments have led to MAC football starting in November. Here's a look at each conference's outlook in 2020.
In early August, the MAC postponed all fall sports to the spring to protect the well-being of student-athletes from COVID-19. Last Friday, the presidents of all the MAC schools voted unanimously to play football starting in November. So what changed?
The football season is scheduled to begin Nov. 4. It was originally postponed Aug. 8.
The conference will begin play no later than Nov. 20.
Sloman was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft.
The novel coronavirus completely knocked the wind out of the sports world, but one of my favorite elements of the games has remained: uniform reveals.
Then-Miami President David Hodge had a telling question for Chuck Martin: “Why would you want to take over this team?”
Landon Stephens, a senior, was playing the last baseball game of the 2019 collegiate baseball season and, perhaps, the last of his Miami career.
Nobody knows how to react. Players are staring at the floor. There are blank, expressionless faces. An eerie silence.