Florida State “canceled all athletic events through the end of the weekend” after a mass shooting took place on campus on Thursday. Two people were killed and six others were injured when a student allegedly opened fire near the student union building on campus around noon on Thursday. Both the FSU baseball and softball teams were scheduled to host games in the coming days. It is unclear if those games are going to be rescheduled. The FSU football team also had two spring practices left (YAHOO SPORTS, 4/17).
FSU AD Michael Alford and other members of the athletic staff “handed out hundreds of free hot dogs and hamburgers in the courtyard of Dick Howser Stadium” to university students just hours after a gunman opened fire on campus. With restaurants and cafeterias closed across the university, Alford “called Legends, who run the concessions within the campus’s athletic stadiums, about providing food for the students.” They were “immediately on board,” sending word to students that free food would be served from 5pm to 7pm ET, as “hundreds soon showed up” (TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT, 4/17).
