Michigan State University ordered all its football players into quarantine after an athlete and two staffers in the program tested positive for the coronavirus, officials say.
"As part of the athletic department's return to campus policy, student-athletes quarantine when coming into close contact with an individual who tests positive for COVID-19."
The school did not disclose exactly how many athletes are now under quarantine, but an athletic department spokesman said it'd be a"majority" of the squad that had returned to campus. A football team in the NCAA's top-flight football bowl subdivision includes 85 players on scholarship.under NCAA rules, for a 2020 season that's in great doubt of even happening.
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