Trevor Lawrence, COVID-19, and College Football

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On Thursday, Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence announced he had tested positive for COVID-19, shocking the college football world. David Hale explains what the diagnosis means for Lawrence and the rest of the sport. Then, after the Big Ten decided to reverse its initial decision to not play this fall, their season is underway...and the conference is now dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19 on the Wisconsin Badgers, leading them to cancel their game this weekend with Nebraska. In another Big Ten showdown, Ohio State plays Penn State this Saturday, featuring possible Heisman challenger QB Justin Fields. Kirk Herbstreit joins the show to preview that matchup, and to assess the college football landscape so far. Plus, a preview of our first-ever bonus episode. Former 76ers basketball executive Sam Hinkie gives a rare interview as his friend and colleague Daryl Morey takes his old job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Clemson University has announced quarterback Trevor Lawrence has tested positive for COVID-19.
0:06.1	He is currently in isolation and the school has confirmed he will miss Saturday's game against Boston College.
0:14.2	When news broke last night that Trevor Lawrence, the biggest star in college football,
0:19.3	tested positive for COVID-19.
0:21.9	This college football season somehow got even more chaotic.
0:26.7	Today, ESPN college football reporter David Hale brings us the latest on Lawrence's condition
0:32.5	and what it means for Clemson's title hopes.
0:36.1	And later, I talk with Kirk Herb Street about the
0:39.5	return of the Big Ten, whether anyone can stop Ohio State and the strangeness of doing
0:46.2	college game day in 2020. I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, October 30th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:00.1	David Hale, thank you for joining me amid all the chaos of what feels like a standard Thursday night at this point in 2020.
1:08.9	Yeah, yeah.
1:16.5	There's a great Rowdy-Roddy Piper quote that is, as soon as you think you have the answers,
1:17.6	I change all the questions.
1:19.3	That is 2020 in a nutshell.
1:25.4	Yeah, and that's a literally accurate statement because we had a show ready to go about college. And here the questions all must be changed,
1:28.7	because the big news on this evening is that Trevor Lawrence has tested positive for COVID-19.
1:34.3	If you somehow don't know who Trevor Lawrence is, this is the biggest name in college football,
1:38.9	the quarterback at Clemson, the Heisman frontrunner, the presumptive number one pick of the NFL draft.
1:45.0	And he released a statement on Twitter, and it said this.
1:49.0	Symptoms are relatively mild, and the only thing that hurts is missing the opportunity to be with my teammates this weekend, end quote.
1:57.8	And Clemson plays Boston College tomorrow, David Hale. So let's start here.
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