When the Alabama Crimson Tide steamrolled the Ohio State Buckeyes on Monday night in the College Football Playoff National Championship, it marked the official end of a chaotic and challenging pandemic football season … and the unofficial beginning of another. Hours before celebratory confetti rained down on the Crimson Tide in Miami, players and coaches at Portland State University were standing outside the Stott Center waiting for trainers to cram COVID-19 test swabs up their noses. “We did it at the crack of dawn, outside, on the porch of Stott,” Portland State coach Bruce Barnum said. “I walked out to say hi and our trainer jabbed a swab at me and said, ‘You’re first, Barny.’ I was like, ‘What, no hello? No good morning?’” There’s little time for pleasantries on the Park Blocks these days as Portland State hastily prepares for its delayed spring football season amid rising coronavirus cases.…
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