Ivy League Cancels Fall Sports
UPDATE (1:40 p.m.): Nicole Auerbach from The Athletic provided an important update.
Ivy League expected to allow activities/meeting/lifting during the fall — to be determined by individual schools — per multiple sources. ADs haven’t closed door on a spring football season.
— Nicole Auerbach 😷 (@NicoleAuerbach) July 8, 2020
ORIGINAL (1:30 p.m.): The Ivy League has canceled their upcoming fall seasons for sports. Mark Blaudschun reported the expected announcement on SI.com in TMG Sports.
Ivy should announce fall sports shutdown later this evening. But no announcement on whether to resume in spring is expected Ivys will wait a few weeks to assess the COVID 19 sit read my story in tmgsports SI
— Mark Blaudschun (@blauds) July 8, 2020
In the piece, Blaudschun says the Ivy League is “not expected to make an announcement on a restart time” today.
CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein was also in on the reporting.
Sources: Ivy League programs have been informed that fall sports have been cancelled.
The conference will not entertain any sports being played until after January 1st.
Winter sports will have an update in mid-July on their respective practice schedules.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) July 8, 2020
The Athletic’s Dana O’Neil reports the Ivy League is hopeful the fall sports are not completely canceled, but postponed.
Source says Ivy League is hopeful that it can move fall sports to spring.
— Dana O’Neil (@DanaONeilWriter) July 8, 2020
O’Neil also reiterated Rothstein’s report that the league will not have any sports before Jan. 1.
To clarify: Ivy League source says no sports until January 1. Hopeful to move fall sports to spring, but that’s TBD.
— Dana O’Neil (@DanaONeilWriter) July 8, 2020
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