Arts, Leisure and Sports
Jim Sears
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It takes more than 2 million dollars a year to operate Center in the Square and support the dozen organizations housed there. Right now there is no revenue coming in – so the President and General Manager is asking for help, as WFIR’s Gene Marrano reports:
Macaroni Kid Roanoke – an online resource for family activity information – wants to give back to local summer camps that may be struggling to fill slots right now by offering T-shirts that say “When You Can’t see the Sunshine be the Sunshine,” for sale at blsp.rocks – at 20 dollars each. Beth Bell is the Macaroni Kid Roanoke publisher:
Sportscaster and Virginia Tech Professor Bill Roth says he was ready to call two college basketball games and a college football spring game before COVID-19 put a halt to sports in the US. And Liberty University online student William Byron – better known as a NASCAR driver these days – won a different kind of race yesterday- a virtual I-racing event at a virtual Bristol Motor Speedway:
Roanoke College athletic director Scott Allison took to Facebook to address the Maroons student-athletes who won’t be competing this spring with the COVID-19 shutdown- and Liberty University head football coach Hugh Freeze had his own brush with a life threatening infection – he spoke to WDBJ-7:
Botetourt resident and MLB scout Roger White is usually traveling across the Mid-Atlantic and the South watching baseball games by this time of year scouting for the San Diego Padres, but he tells WDBJ-7 the coronavirus has put a stop to that — like other sports related activities: