Alabama Coach Nick Saban Tests Positive for Covid-19 as Virus Disrupts SEC

Alabama head coach Nick Saban tested positive for Covid-19

After skating through three weeks of competition unscathed, the Southeastern Conference was rumbled by the coronavirus pandemic as Alabama’s 68-year-old head coach Nick Saban tested positive for Covid-19 and two of the league’s seven games this weekend were postponed after outbreaks on the Vanderbilt and Florida rosters.

Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne also tested positive, the school said. He and Saban, perhaps the game’s most prominent coach, both said in statements that they went into immediate isolation after receiving...

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