CORONAVIRUS: Florida athletics seeing a rise in covid cases

  • The University of Florida athletic department reported Wednesday six new positive cases of covid-19 with the Gators football team a week before its season opener. (STEPHEN M. DOWELL/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)
    The University of Florida athletic department reported Wednesday six new positive cases of covid-19 with the Gators football team a week before its season opener. (STEPHEN M. DOWELL/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

    Florida’s athletic department is seeing a rise in covid-19 cases.

    The school reported 61 new positive cases Tuesday, including six for the football team a little more than a week before its season open…