Skip to main content

Badgers Positive COVID Cases Rises To 22

 

By Sarah Vandermolen

photo courtesy of clickondetroit.com

Merely a day after their season opener, Wisconsin Badgers quarterback, Graham Mertz, tested positive for COVID-19. Since then, 11 football players and 10 members of staff have also tested positive. 

The abundance of cases led the Badgers to cancel their game against Nebraska, which was scheduled to take place on October 31. However, there is a chance that the team will also have to cancel their upcoming game against Purdue. 

"We're still having additions in our cases, and that's something we've got to get our arms around and control it," said Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez.

The Badgers also cancelled practice for a week, with the earliest they could resume being November 4, only three days before their game against Purdue.

According to sports.yahoo.com:

If Wisconsin can't play Purdue, that game would be declared a no contest as well [as the Nebraska game]. It would also be the last game Wisconsin could have canceled and still be eligible for the Big Ten championship game. A team has to play a minimum of six games in 2020 to play in the conference title game. Because teams are not going to be playing the same amount of games this season the Big Ten is determining its division standings based on winning percentage.

Not only have the Badgers had to deal with their share of cases, but the Fighting Illini have also had two positive cases since the season opener.

Quarterback Branson Peters and tight end Griffin Moore both tested positive for COVID-19. Due to contract tracing, 12 other Illinois players had to sit out for their game against Purdue on October 31.

Both players will not be able to resume playing until November 21. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

  Rory Richards Facebook Certain Fields From Profile Bios, Including “Religious Views”; Does Not Say Why Facebook has announced plans to remove certain fields from profile bios. Starting on December 1, users will no longer be presented with an option to list their sexual orientation, their political views, their address, or their religious views on their personal profiles. Facebook did not provide an explanation for this decision. The decision was announced one week after Meta, the parent company of Facebook, fired 11,000 employees, 13% of its total workforce; whether or not these two events are correlated, however, remains unclear.
Post a Comment
Read more

First Lion Electric School Bus in Joliet

 Noëllie Inard Credit: www.chicagotribune.com  On Wednesday, November 2nd, Lion Electric announced the end of the production of its first LionC zero-emission electric school bus at its Joliet factory. In May 2021, Lion Electric, a Canadian-based manufacturer of commercial vehicles, selected Joliet to hold its future US manufactory due to a growing demand for electric school buses in the United States. Lion Electric positioned itself to help school districts with the transition to electric buses with the help of the EPA Clean Bus Program which funded the project with $5 billion. The EPA Clean Bus Program is part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a law that the Congress recently passed under President Joe Biden and which aimed to invest “ in [the] nation’s infrastructure and competitiveness,” according to the White House. The company’s efforts have paid off since they have now 700 electric vehicles on the road.       Lion Electric promised on January 2022...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Emo Night Tour is Coming to Joliet!

Photo Courtesy of The Emo Night Tour By: Saba Aamir On August 2, 2022, The Emo Night Tour announced the dates for their “RAWR!-ing 20's Tour” on their Instagram account . They will be performing around the United States in 40 different venues, with one of the shows being in Joliet, IL, at The Forge on September 3, 2022. "The Emo Night Tour DJs will be spinning all the angst your teenage dirtbag heart desires all night long," their Facebook page states, "and will make you feel like you're at Warped Tour '08 minus all the dust and melting in the sun!" The show primarily features pop-punk music, but a DJ chooses what to play by tailoring the set to the crowd's energy. With nostalgic songs on the list from popular bands such as Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, and much more, The Emo Night Tour brings many people to the show. The show will be held at The Forge in downtown Joliet, a live music concert venue that hosts live band...
Post a Comment
Read more