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keeping score. reporter: this week, sports is providing an escape. got it! wins it at the buzzer! reporter: but also slamming head on with covid reality as omicron continues to set records for new infections. how do sports survive in the time of covid? i think that s what they re all looking at is basically how can we accept if this is our new normal. reporter: increasingly the new normal means games postponed or canceled. at least 11 n.b.a. games just in the past two weeks, more than 75 universities have put their basketball seasons on pause. five college bowl games called off. including tuesday s holiday bowl in san diego. north carolina state showed up. we are 100% vaccinated. we had zero incidents with covid. reporter: but an outbreak forced their opponent, u.c.l.a., to pull out just hours before kickoff. you found out that this game was canceled on twitter. we all felt lied to. we all felt kind of, like, incomplete in that moment.
game, through every whistle, every time-out, even halftime. can only stop when the buzzer souns and the game ends. it is estimated the hawk does 3,500 nonstop flaps for the game. really earns that scholarship and, of course, the slogan, the motto of st. joe s is the hawk will never die. and for 63 basketball seasons, the hawk has not stopped doing that. so, that s the sports tradition in philadelphia. what about the political tradition in philadelphia, in pennsylvania? well, we re talking about the significance for 2020. you all know the big story here. pennsylvania, election night 2016, by a margin of 44,000 votes, donald trump won this state, didn t just win this state, this is one of those states that he flipped. they were talking about the blue wall, democrats were, heading into election 2016. states like pennsylvania, michigan, as well, wisconsin, we re going all the way back to the 90s, the 80s. democrats had been winning.
they still play each other here when you get one of those match-ups. it is an amazing thing to see, and it is also the home of a particularly amazing tradition. my favorite in all of sports. it involves the hawks and the st. joseph hawk. look what he s doing here. he is flapping his wings. they re in the warmups right here. here s the rule. here s the tradition at st. joseph s. that hawk, that s a student, he s on scholarship. he s considered a member of the team. he must flap his wings from the minute the team takes the court, through the warmups, through the game, through every whistle, every time-out, even halftime. can only stop when the buzzer sounds and the game ends. it is estimated the hawk does 3,500 nonstop flaps for the game. really earns that scholarship and, of course, the slogan, the motto of st. joe s is the hawk will never die. and for 63 basketball seasons, the hawk has not stopped doing that.
he s considered a member of the team. he must flap his wings from the minute the team takes the court, through the warmups, through the game, through every whistle, every time-out, even halftime. can only stop when the buzzer sound s and the game ends. it is estimated the hawk does 3,500 nonstop flaps for the game. really earns that scholarship and, of course, the slogan, the motto of st. joe s is the hawk will never die. and for 63 basketball seasons, the hawk has not stopped doing that. so, that s the sports tradition in philadelphia. what about the political tradition in philadelphia, in pennsylvania? well, we re talking about the significance for 2020. you all know the big story here. pennsylvania, election night 2016, by a margin of 44,000 votes, donald trump won this state, didn t just win this state, this is one of those states that he flipped. they were talking about the blue wall, democrats were, heading into election 2016. states like pennsylvania, michigan, as well, wisconsi