What can we learn from UNC’s Charlie ‘Choo Choo’ Justice? Pausing sports can turn out okay

Posted Aug 23, 2020
For many athletes in 2020, games have been interrupted. Spring sports stopped in March due to COVID-19. North Carolina high school football won’t start until February 2021. Almost half of FBS college football programs won’t play this fall. But sports aren’t always played in a straight line, and sometimes it still works out. Witness the career of Charlie Justice. (Charlotte Observer)

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