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.
I’ve watched the Bengals get to their first round of playoff games and lose many times. The Reds have followed in those footsteps.
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.
Athletics administrators around the country have a lot of questions to answer due to COVID-19.
Kumar is replacing Clarisa Crowell, who was named the head coach at Penn State earlier this month.
Twenty-seven student-athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 after many attended an off-campus social gathering more than a week ago, according to an email from Miami University President Greg Crawford.
The decision was announced in a conference-wide press release Saturday morning after a unanimous vote by the Council of Presidents.
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.
We all go a little a crazy sometimes.
My heart goes out to the athletes whose seasons were cut short or delayed due to the novel coronavirus. But I'm also thinking about the writers who cover sports that aren't happening right now.