UPDATE Right now’s Sugar Bowl school soccer match-up between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Notre Dame Preventing Irish has been postponed for twenty-four hours till Thursday night time, Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley has simply introduced.
The sport had been deliberate for tonight at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, solely hours after the lethal carnage visited upon that metropolis earlier this morning.
“The Sugar Bowl Committee is devastated by the horrible occasions from early this morning,” stated Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley in a press release. “Our ideas and prayers are with the victims and their households. We’re in ongoing discussions with authorities on the native, state, and federal ranges and can talk additional particulars as they change into accessible.”
On CNN this morning, Sen. Invoice Cassidy (R-La.) stated he’s “extraordinarily assured” that the sport would go on tonight. “The usual working process for an enormous sport just like the Sugar Bowl, for a Saints sport, for the Tremendous Bowl is to undergo the constructing, be sure there’s nothing there that’s unsuitable, after which to lock it down. The Sugar Bowl, the Superdome has been locked down. There’s going to be no downside there.”
New Orleans Police Division Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick additionally confirmed that the sport, which shall be televised on ESPN, is anticipated to be performed as scheduled at 8:45 p.m. ET.
The winner of the sport will advance to the Faculty Soccer Playoff semifinal.
“We’re horrified and saddened by the mindless act of violence that occurred within the early hours of New 12 months’s Day in New Orleans,” stated a press release launched by the College of Georgia. “College personnel are working to find out if any UGA college students, college, employees, alumni or followers had been among the many victims.”
Later, the Georgia athletic division issued a lengthier assertion, saying, “We’re deeply saddened by the mindless violence that occurred in New Orleans. All staff personnel and members of the official staff journey celebration have been accounted for. At present, we’re in touch with native legislation enforcement in addition to representatives from the Sugar Bowl and Faculty Soccer Playoff and are persevering with to collect extra data. Our prayers are with all those that traveled right here for the Sugar Bowl and whole New Orleans group.”
College of Georgia president Jere W. Morehead did verify that one Georgia pupil, on the town to look at the sport, was critically injured and is at present receiving medical therapy.
Notre Dame officers additionally stated they’re “working with legislation enforcement and others to find out the complete scope and impression of the tragedy.” Nobody related to the varsity’s staff has been reported injured.
A minimum of 10 folks had been killed within the grotesque 3:15 a.m. assault on New 12 months’s revelers in New Orleans’ French Quarter when a person, who’s being investigated as a possible terrorist, drove his automobile right into a crowd. Along with the instant fatalities, no less than 35 folks had been injured, some critically.
The driving force of the automobile was shot and killed by police after he started firing on officers from his truck.
