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Even though they're no longer suspended, they should have never been suspended in the first place!

Two football players at Little Miami High School have been placed back on active status after being suspended from practice for carrying a "thin blue line" flag and "thin red line" flag across the field before their game on Sept. 11.

School officials said in a statement Tuesday the students did not get permission from district officials to carry the flags on the field and that's why they were suspended from practice while they investigated the incident.

"School administrators must act when students break the rules, and these students were suspended from practice while the incident was investigated," Little Miami Local School Board of Education President Bobbie Grice said in a statement Tuesday.

Following the investigation, Grice said they found there were no political motivations behind the display of support for first responders, however they still broke the rules by not getting permission to carry the flags.

The players have been placed back on active status and the incident will be addressed as an Athletic Department Code of Conduct issue by coaching staff.

"Little Miami Local Schools is saddened to see this story take such a negative turn. The district enjoys an outstanding relationship with our local police and fire agencies," Grice said. He went on to reference an event they had later in the day in honor of the anniversary of 9/11.

"As the season continues, the only two flags that will come through the Little Miami football tunnel are the flag of the United States of American and the Little Miami spirit flag. The Board of Education supports this decision of district administration," Grice said.

The incident has since been shared all over social media, capturing the attention of President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. who tweeted, saying "It's outrageous that these students were punished for celebrating our amazing police officers. They showed real courage standing up for what they thought was right."

About time, but why wait until Oct. 23? They already missed the first two weeks, now it'll be 6 weeks before they ever start play. They should have never cancelled in the first place.

Due to Covid-19, it will be a strange season.
Indeed, there will be no pre-season games.
They are literally kicking off tomorrow night
with the Texans visiting the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs.

Now baseball has had their problems with Covid-19,
quite a few games had to be postponed due to infections,
and that's a MUCH more socially distanced game than American football.

So, for a game with many huddles and lots of physical contact,
it will be interesting to see how they will take virus spreading precautions.
Perhaps instead of water bottles, there will be sanitizer bottles
rushed out to huddles.
The next superbowl champions may be the team with the most players infection-free.

Nonetheless, I'll be watching.

On February 22, 1980, the United States Olympic hockey team pulled off one of the greatest upsets in sports history, defeating the Soviet Union, 4-3.

Zamboni driver for the Toronto Marlies and emergency backup goalie David Ayres makes his NHL debut at 42 years of age, stopping 8 of 10 shots to give the Carolina Hurricanes a 6-3 win, all while stealing the show in Toronto.

We already know the White House has been hit by COVID-19 and it's become the most tested place in the world right now. Trump and Pence have refused to wear face masks. I already brought up a possibility (other than stupidity) why they would be so bold as to do as I say and not as I do and continue... but. But, if the president and the vice-president are stricken with COVID-19 and required to be admitted to ICU, that would leave the Speaker of the House next in line to the Oval Office.




Uhh... do they know this??

Maybe it's time to Mask Up.



I selected the blog category as sports... after all, who is running the country, or should I say who will be running the country?

I watched a men's tennis tournament last weekend from an undisclosed private court in Palm Beach County.
All I could see was the 2 players and a chair umpire. I didn't see a line umpire. There were no ball boys or other people on the court. Less than 10 people sitting in chairs under tents at least 50 feet away from the court. The tall fence around the court had dark green wind breaker screen so the players were without distraction.
Boom cameras were at the ends of the event and only peered over the top of the fence.

This was a real tournament, but an official match tennis like I've not seen before.

Today, it was women's tennis. Same court.

Sure I've seen practice sessions, took lessons, played on private courts many times.
This tennis was pure-player without the anger, crowd pleaser and emotions of people watching and cheering. I actually enjoyed it more!

Between play, they did a drone view from a few hundred feet and you can see it's a single court in someone's back yard. Maybe 3 acres of land with 20 cars in a row line along the back. No doubt, from the video crew players and coaches.

Except for the players, everyone was wearing an N95 mask.

It starts at the end of July after a new reset 'spring' training.

The judge got whacked... and he got ejected.
US Open 2020 grand slam tennis event at Flushing Meadows, Number one ranked Novak Djokovic during a match dropped a serve and in a moment of anger fired a ball behind accidentally hitting a line judge. Apology didn't help and Djokovic was ejected from the tournament.
Djokovic, was 26-0 in 2020 going into the match. His opponent Carreno Busta won the match by default.