Birmingham city leaders still planning for a springtime Magic City Classic
Plans for the Magic City Classic By Lauren Jackson | January 7, 2021 at 10:01 PM CST - Updated January 8 at 6:30 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Birmingham officials are looking to bring sports back to the city this year.
Southwestern Athletic Conference Commissioner, Dr. Charles McClelland, said they are still planning for the Magic City Classic this spring, but he said it won’t be a COVID-19 hotspot.
Dr. David Hicks with the Jefferson County Health Department said officials are working with the health department to establish safety guidelines and rules for inside the stadium and outside the stadium.
Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.
Birmingham Bowl Cancelled; Too Few Teams To Play
The TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl, which was scheduled for Friday, Jan. 1 at Legion Field will be cancelled due to an insufficient amount of teams participating in bowl season. This year s game was supposed to matchup a member from the SEC and the American Athletic Conference. The cancellation puts an end to a 14-year run of bowl games in Birmingham.
“We have made the difficult decision to cancel the TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl,” said Mark Meadows, executive director. “As the inventory of available teams lessened, our ability to stage the game was compromised. We will direct our focus to next year’s bowl, and look forward to staging the game in the 2021 season.”