The IHSA Board of Directors met for a special board meeting today, where the Board provided an updated sports schedule and other guidance for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year. Here locally, boys and girls basketball season practices can start as soon as possible, as the season can start after seven practices. The end of the season is March 13. Cheerleading can start after seven practices. The end of cheerleading is March 13. The state series will be held virtually on March 6th and March 12th. The first day of football practice is March 3, with the first game scheduled on March 19th. There will not be a state series, with the season end date of April 24. Practices for girls volleyball start on March 8, with seven practice days. There is no state series, and the season end date is April 24. Practices for baseball and softball can begin on April 5, with seven practice days. The end of season for both sports is June 19. Wrestling practices start on April 19 with seven practice da
Roy Exum: 12 Deaths? No, 2 Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
Late Sunday afternoon I was cruising across the Internet, trying to get a pulse on the current state of the COVID pandemic, and I was thrilled to discover there is a noticeable lull in what has been a very aggressive onslaught of the coronavirus in Tennessee and in Hamilton County. For instance, in Hamilton County we have had a 37.55 % decrease in cases over the last seven days and a 71.4% decline in deaths, both figures per every 100,000 people
My figures are solid, both confirmed by the Centers for Communicable Diseases and Control (CDC) dashboard and the USA Today dashboard. But then I read a report generated by our Hamilton County Health Department that announced we had 12 more deaths on Sunday, “It was the most deaths in one day from COVID in Hamilton County since 12 died on Dec. 8.” I jumped to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Dashboard and … presto! … it perfectly illustrated that muc