COVID postpones Sanders’ home debut

Deion Sanders’s hotly anticipated debut as Jackson State’s head football coach Sunday was notable less for what happened on the field - the Tigers cruised past NAIA opponent Edward Waters, 53-0 - than what happened after the game: At his postgame news conference, the Pro Football Hall of Famer angrily claimed someone stole his “credit cards, wallet, watches” from the coaches’ office during the contest.

The school later announced that Sanders’s belongings “were misplaced and have been found,” an assertion Sanders disputed in tweets that said his stuff indeed had been stolen but that he had gotten everything back. (Jackson State said Sunday it would not file a police report.)

Now that that’s all been cleared up, there’s the matter of Sanders’s debut against an actual Football Championship Subdivision opponent, but that will have to wait: On Thursday, Jackson State announced that the Tigers’ home game Saturday against Mississippi Valley State has been postponed until March 14 because of a positive coronavirus test and subsequent quarantining in the Delta Devils’ program. Jackson State’s next scheduled game is March 6 at Grambling State.