No school sports this fall? Gov. Wolf urges postponement until at least Jan. 1
For weeks, high school athletes in Butler County have been settling into a new normal.
Temperature checks. Masks. Social distancing. Disinfecting everything.
All to make sure fall sports seasons happen.
The predominant feeling was things were right on track.
Until Gov. Tom Wolf threw a false start flag at the end of his news conference Thursday morning, recommending fall sports be paused until at least Jan. 1 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
That statement sent the PIAA, the state's athletic governing body, into a frenzy and jolted school administrators, coaches and athletes into a state of confusion.
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