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NCAA Pressured to Consider Playing March Madness With No Fans

  • No audience may help protect college athletes from coronavirus
  • Head of players association says Google, Amazon canceled plans

    

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The head of the National College Players Association says the NCAA may need to be play March Madness with no fans to protect college athletes from coronavirus.

The advocacy group’s executive director Ramogi Huma called for “a serious discussion about holding competitions without an audience present” in a statement Saturday.