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Mike Anthony: It’s up to our leaders to pull the plug on sports for 2020

It has moved from silly to absurd now, all this circular conversation about college sports in the fall, to the point where I don’t know whether to laugh or cry as I consider such foolish hesitation.

But we remain at a time of half-measures, delay tactics, announcements of scale-backs that pass as news for a moment but really add up to nothing more than a kick of the can, a bunch of useless sentences that fail to achieve resolution, provide true safety or so much as touch reality.

The Big East was at it Thursday, announcing the elimination of non-conference competition for the fall, as if COVID-19 only prays upon settings for, say, UConn vs.