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Former NFL safety Myron Rolle, who currently works as a neurosurgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, said the hospital is "struggling" to keep pace with the rapid spread of the coronavirus.

Rolle, a standout at Florida State before getting selected by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2010 draft, discussed the COVID-19 situation with TMZ Sports in an interview released Saturday.

"We're right now struggling for bed space and personnel to take care of the surge and influx of COVID-19 patients that are just knocking down the door," Rolle said.

He added: "They've tried to recruit neurosurgery residents and nurse practitioners to sort of help out in the surge. So it's sort of an all-hands-on-deck deal right now."

Rolle spent two years with the Titans and joined the Pittsburgh Steelers for training camp in 2012 but didn't make the team's final roster. In 2013, he returned to FSU for medical school.

The 33-year-old Houston native told TMZ he doesn't regret giving up football to become a doctor.

"I would do it again 10 times out of 10," Rolle said.

The 2006 First Team Freshman All-American, who was selected as a Rhodes Scholar in 2008, also explained professional sports leagues may need an entire year before the coronavirus pandemic has been contained enough to resume play.

So far, the NFL hasn't announced any plans to alter the 2020 season. Commissioner Roger Goodell ordered teams to close facilities as of Wednesday, but free agency started on schedule March 18. The draft is still slated to take place April 23-25, though without fans or prospects in attendance.

Training camp typically begins in mid-July.

As Donovan Mitchell continues to recover from a confirmed case of COVID-19, he's spending his time like the rest of the sports world: hanging out on social media and debating hotly contested questions.

On Friday, that meant naming his top Louisville Cardinals athletes of all time. The Utah Jazz guard spent two years at UofL, becoming a household name before elevating his game in the NBA, yet he didn't name himself. 

The 23-year-old instead went with quarterback Lamar Jackson, women's basketball star Angel McCoughtry, swimmer Kelsi Worrell and men's hoopers Darrell Griffith and a tie between Peyton Siva and Russ Smith. 

Jackson is the obvious selection here. He became the program's first Heisman Trophy winner in 2016 amid a three-year college career in which he registered 9,043 total yards, 69 touchdowns and 27 interceptions with another 50 scores and 4,132 yards rushing. 

Kelsi Worrell's career is equally unimpeachable. The swimmer won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics in the 4x100-meter medley relay shortly after leaving school.

McCoughtry's credentials are stellar in their own right. The Las Vegas Aces star is a five-time WNBA All-Star and two-time WNBA first-team selection after leading the league in scoring in 2012 and 2013—not to mention her two Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016. Before the forward was setting records professionally, she became the Cards' all-time scoring leader with 2,779 points.

Where Mitchell skirts the rules of the game a bit is with the men's basketball players he chose. 

Griffith won Most Outstanding Player after Louisville won the 1980 Final Four before becoming a Utah Jazz legend, so there's no surprise in a current Jazz star picking him in his top five.

With Siva and Smith, things get a bit tricky. The two were instrumental in helping the Cardinals win the NCAA title in 2013, and Mitchell couldn't bear to choose between the two. 

The father of Louisville wide receiver Corey Reed died Wednesday after being diagnosed with COVID-19, according to the Courier Journal's Cameron Teague Robinson.

Corey Reed Sr. was 43.

"My deepest condolences go out to Corey and his entire family," Cardinals head coach Scott Satterfield said. "This horrible virus has affected so many people, and it's even more difficult when it touches someone in the U of L football family. We have been in contact with Corey and his family, and are here to support him during this extremely difficult time."

Reed, a native of Fulton, Georgia, signed with Louisville ahead of the 2017 season. He caught eight passes for 145 yards as a true freshman and appeared in one game as a sophomore in 2018.

Reed transferred to Iowa Western Community College and had 19 receptions for 253 yards and two touchdowns in four games for the Reivers. 

He returned to the Cardinals for 2020, with Satterfield telling reporters in February he was "working his tail off" in practice.

The ACC announced March 12 it was suspended all sporting activities due to the pandemic, which put spring practice for Louisville on hold indefinitely.

Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns announced Tuesday doctors placed his mother, Jacqueline Cruz, in a medically induced coma. The team confirmed to ESPN's Malika Andrews that Cruz had been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Towns' agent, Jessica Holtz, confirmed to ESPN that Karl-Anthony Towns Sr. had also tested positive for the coronavirus and is "recovering well."

More than 492,000 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed worldwide, with at least 69,246 in the United States, per CNN.

Florida State running back Jashaun Corbin will be eligible to play in the 2020 season after transferring to the Seminoles from Texas A&M in December the school announced Tuesday.  

"We are grateful to the NCAA for this decision and to Texas A&M for supporting this process," head coach Mike Norvell said. "We're excited for Jashaun and the opportunity he's going to have to impact this program on and off the field."

The redshirt sophomore will have three years of eligibility remaining.

"Thank you to everyone in compliance for working on my behalf and to my coaches for their support throughout this process," Corbin said. "I also want to say thank you to Texas A&M for making this possible. I'm looking forward to being a big contributor to the team this upcoming season."

In two seasons and 14 games, Corbin has rushed for 483 yards and two touchdowns. He was Trayveon Williams' backup in the 2018 season and came into 2019 as the team's starter before a hamstring injury ended his season after just two games.

Corbin had originally committed to Florida State but decommitted after Jimbo Fisher took the Texas A&M job. He was ranked as a 4-star prospect by 247Sports.com's Composite Rankings and considered the No. 8 all-purpose running back, No. 49 recruit in the state of Florida and the No. 261 recruit overall in the Class of 2018.

As for how he'll help Florida State going forward, Brendan Sonnone of 247Sports.com noted that Corbin is a "reliable change-of-pace back and a dynamic returner on special teams." 

He added that while "it remains to be seen whether he has the elite physical tools to be a true difference-maker," Corbin has intriguing upside and "based on how Norvell likes to use his backs, Corbin will assuredly be an invaluable asset as a runner, receiver and returner."

Offseason or not, Mack Brown just picked up quite the victory over Nick Saban.

The head coach at North Carolina has convinced four-star quarterback Drake Maye to flip his commitment from Alabama to the Tar Heels. 

"I'd like to thank Coach Saban and the entire staff for the opportunity to play at the University of Alabama, but after sitting down with my family I have decided to de-commit from Alabama," Maye wrote on Twitter. "With that being said, I'm looking forward to playing for Coach Brown at the University of North Carolina. He, along with Coach Longo and Coach Bly have been tremendous throughout my recruiting process and I couldn't be more excited to become a Tar Heel."

The family factor seems a bit understated. Maye's older brother, Luke, was a four-year player for Roy Williams and the Tar Heels basketball team, where he earned First-Team All-ACC honors in 2018 and helped North Carolina capture the National Championship in 2017. 

That Maye grew up a short drive from Chapel Hill didn't hurt UNC's cause either. 

Aside from the Tide and Tar Heels, Maye was sought by Clemson, Georgia and Louisville as well. He's the No. 3 prospect in the state of North Carolina, the No. 6 pro-style quarterback in the nation and the No. 56 overall recruit in the class of 2021 as scouted by 247sports.com. 

At 6'4", 203 pounds, Maye has been compared to Sam Bradford and projects to develop into an NFL Draft pick.

Maye's father, Mark, played quarterback for UNC from 1984-87, where he passed for 3,459 total yards, 20 touchdowns and 22 interceptions. 

Junior tight end Michael Irvin II is reportedly transferring from the University of Miami.

Per CaneSport.com (h/t Barry Jackson of the South Florida Sun Sentinel), Irvin, the son of NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin, is expected to leave the school but remains on the active football roster. 

The 22-year-old has had an injury-plagued college career to this point. He's only recorded 11 catches for 111 yards and zero touchdowns since 2017. 

Irvin missed the entire 2018 season because of an MCL injury that required surgery. He did play in all 13 games for the Hurricanes last year and started the Independence Bowl against Louisiana Tech.

Andrew Ivins of 247Sports noted Irvin wasn't at Miami's first day of spring practice Monday. 

Coming out of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in 2016, Irvin was a well-regarded prospect. The Florida native was a 3-star player and the No. 33 tight end in his class, according to 247Sports' composite rankings. 

Irvin likely would have entered the 2020 season as Miami's No. 3 tight end, behind rising junior Brevin Jordan and Will Mallory.    

The NCAA announced a series of penalties against the University of Pittsburgh for violations by former head men's basketball coach Kevin Stallings and current head football coach Pat Narduzzi.

According to a press release issued Thursday, Stallings and Narduzzi committed coaching violations that resulted in their programs exceeding the number of permissible coaches. 

Stallings allowed three non-coaching staff members to assist in practices and instituted an "alert system" to ensure the violations would not be caught. He also instructed the deletion of a practice video capturing the violations.

Narduzzi was present when three former members of the team's quality control staff performed coaching duties. He also implemented a system whereby music would be played during practices to alert when "outside parties" would be at practices to check for compliance.

The NCAA announced Narduzzi will serve a show-cause penalty that keeps him out of two practices in August. He was also barred from one week of off-campus recruiting during the December-February contact period.

Stallings, who was fired after the 2017-18 season, has been given a three-year show-cause penalty. If he's hired by a program during that period, he will have to sit out 30 percent of that university's season. 

Pitt was also given three years' probation and fined $5,000, along with 0.5 percent of their football and men's basketball budgets.

Additional penalties include reductions in "countable athletically related activities" for both programs, along with minor restrictions for coaching staff during select practices. None of these restrictions are considered major, nor will they have much impact on the upcoming seasons for the respective programs.

The basketball violations do not include any misconduct by current coach Jeff Capel. 

Stallings has been out of basketball since his dismissal at Pitt. 

Pittsburgh's Pat Narduzzi will not be leaving Pitt for Michigan State.

The head coach made that notion abundantly clear on Wednesday evening, tweeting out a doctored clip from The Wolf of Wall Street to thoroughly drive home his point:

A former defensive coordinator under Mark Dantonio, Narduzzi is 36-29 at Pitt since taking over the program in 2015 and fresh off an 8-5 season with a Quick Lane Bowl victory over Eastern Michigan. The coach had been linked to the MSU job in the wake of Dantonio's retirement on Tuesday.

Speaking to Will Graves of the Associated Press, Narduzzi said his phone was "blowing up" on Wednesday night, but he has no plans to leave Pitt. 

"It's my ultimate goal to be here at Pitt," Narduzzi said. "I came here to get a job done. We're just working on continuing to move forward."

Notably, Narduzzi credited Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke as one of the reasons why he wanted to stay put. 

"I know what I'm dealing with here at Pitt," Narduzzi said. "I know every day when I call up Heather Lyke and say, 'How about this?' She's going to say, 'We'll get it done.' I just know that. I don't know that about any place else in the country like I know it here."

Back in East Lansing, Michigan State's interim AD, Bill Beekman, said he wanted a quick process to replace Dantonio. While Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell has been floated as a front-runner for the job, Fickell maintains he has yet to talk to anyone from MSU. 

"I have talked to nobody and that's the truth," Fickell told ESPNU Radio Wednesday. "Obviously, I'm very good friends with Mark Dantoinio, I have been for a while, I have stayed in contact—we always dou2014with him. But I have not communicated or talked to anybody besides Mark Dantonio in the last three, four weeks from Michigan State. I haven't been thinking about it, I haven't been focused on it." 

Both Narduzzi and Fickell spent Tuesday night assuring recruits they wouldn't be leaving their posts. Lyke, for her part, has noted that Narduzzi's decision may lead to a new contract in the near future. 

"We may evaluate that with him," Lyke said. "What he wants to do is take care of his players and his coaches. And that's the most important thing for him."

Clemson defensive end Logan Rudolph is giving up the gridiron, perhaps for the silver screen. 

On Thursday, he announced via Instagram he was quitting football. 

"After I made that funny video announcing my decision to sign my letter of intent with Dabo Swinney and the Clemson Tigers, I had no idea the impact...three conference championships, three College Football Playoffs, a national championship, coaches, teammates, friendships that I know will last a lifetime. Every day I put that helmet on I tried to compete in a way that made Clemson University proud. As I close out this chapter and graduate in May, I just want say thank you to those who supported us, inspired us and cheered us on. I will always be a Clemson Tiger." 

Rudolph, the younger brother of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph, is set to graduate in May and would still have two years of football eligibility remaining. Larry Williams of Tiger Illustrated reported that "Rudolph has told people he eventually plans to move to California to chase his dream of becoming an actor."   

Hall of Famer Ed Reed is returning to Miami as chief of staff for the football team, the school announced Thursday.

"As Chief of Staff, Reed will serve in an advisory role to Diaz in all aspects of the football program, including strategic planning, quality control, operations, player evaluation and player development," the statement read. "Reed will also provide assistance in team building, student-athlete mentorship and recruiting, as permissible under NCAA rules."

Reed spent four seasons at Miami as a player. He was a consensus All-American on two occasions and was a star senior for the Hurricanes when they won their last national championship in 2001. 

Then he embarked on an NFL career that included nine trips to the Pro Bowl, a Super Bowl title and five All-Pro honors. The 41-year-old was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 2019.

Reed has expressed a desire to move into coaching:

Ed Reed says he considered applying for a DBs coaching job with the Patriots. Definitely has a desire to coach again at some point and would love if the Ravens would create a position for him somewhere on staff. Seems like a no brainer to me. They should make it happen

— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) August 2, 2019

Dear football #NFL #College I’m interested in a Head Coaching job. #CoachReed/HC #HOF #CFHOH #HShof #SuperBowlChamp more on Resume #edreed501c3

— Ed Reed (@TwentyER) October 19, 2019

Given what his job duties entail, Reed will have the opportunity to wear a lot of hats for his alma mater. It doesn't appear head coach Manny Diaz is bringing him aboard to merely serve in a figurehead role.

Hiring Reed is one of several notable move by Diaz this month.

I’ve criticized the Canes plenty, but hiring Ed Reed is a great move and exactly what so many former players wanted. A voice from a great Cane to try and help guide Manny Diaz and the program in the right direction. It can’t hurt.

— Will Manso (@WillManso) January 30, 2020

Miami announced the arrival of Rhett Lashlee as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Jan. 4. Just under two weeks later, D'Eriq King confirmed he was transferring to Coral Gables for his senior season. The Hurricanes are also welcoming a 2020 recruiting class that is 17th in 247Sports' composite rankings, up from 27th in 2019.

Fans have witnessed enough false dawns to be somewhat skeptical until the team delivers on the field. Diaz clearly understood the need to shake things up, though, following a disappointing 6-7 season.