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Look, personally I don’t have a problem with the guy. Now professionally as the president, I think he’s an idiot. You know, I never thought he was smart in talking to him.”
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, on the “Just B with Bethenny Frankel” podcast about President Donald Trump. Cuban also said Trump once told him to run for president before Trump won the 2016 election.
Throughout our entire time together, we had not had one meal where we sat down together. Everything was grab- and- go. We get into our game situation where we have a pregame meal together, and that cost us. Big. ... We had somebody who was asymptomatic, and it spread like wildfire throughout our meeting area, where we were eating, and then it got guys in contact tracing.”
Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly, to ESPN after doctors determined the recent COVID- 19 outbreak was linked to the team eating a pregame meal together before the Sept. 19 game against South Florida, as well as one player vomiting on the sideline during the game. That led to 25 players being put in isolation from positive tests and another 14 in quarantine as a result of contact tracing. Practices had been halted since Sept. 22, and the Sept. 26 game with Wake Forest was postponed. Practice was to resume Wednesday.
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Minnesota All- American receiver Rashod Bateman, on Twitter after being granted a waiver by the NCAA to restore his eligibility, clearing the way for him to compete for the Golden Gophers when the Big Ten season kicks off in late October. Bateman, widely projected as a first- round pick in the NFL draft, had opted out this summer to prepare for the draft.