Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

Nope. I resisted.

 

So a successful Washington State coach leaves Pullman for Fame and fortune in the SEC and manages to show his ass before even coaching one game. It’s not like that has ever happened before...

 

Gundy’s comments are like catnip to national online sports media. Free hits and the chance to hyperventilate for some more free hits.

 

Poor Mike Gundy.

The media is so mean.

 

None of which makes the criticisms wrong or Gundy's comments justifiable.

This column makes a point that supersedes all others. There's a practical reason colleges can't conduct footbawwwwl practices while determining the campus at general is unsafe. And it is this: Such an argument undercuts the notion that these are amateurs and just normal students who have a special talent. It destroys the model on which college sports run by placing athletics in even greater contrast to the rest of the educational enterprise than the normal level of hypocrisy.

 

I don’t give a shit about Mike Gundy. He’s a prick who has been awful to the media, repeatedly, so he sure as hell doesn’t give a shit about what the media thinks of him.

It’s just so predictable, the hyperventilating.

 

Here's a crazy idea: how about these coaches say, "I can't speculate on that. We're in contact with the administration to remain in the loop on when things may start up again but I really can't comment on that." What's so fucking hard about that? If these pampered jackasses would have said that instead of babbling about dragging money through the state or zero doubts, we aren't talking about them. Oh, and if I'm Gundy, I'm more worried about the fact that my personal sugar daddy is dead and won't protect his job security anymore. He's 15-11 in the last two seasons, a whopping one game better than Mr. Fourth-and-One Pat Narduzzi. Turn off OAN and start watching game film, dickbird.

 

So is the hyperventilating about the hyperventilating.

 

Why don't you just log the fuck off Twitter then? Jesus man, you're too smart to be this fucking insufferable.

 

Right.

But he's a loud-mouthed white Conservative asshole, so you'll defend him to the end of the earth while insisting it's not a reflection on your values at all.

 

Dana White talked about holding fights on a private island. Now he's talking about a reservation.

Reports: Dana White plans to hold UFC 249 on California tribal land to bypass COVID-19 safety regulations

Even with an arena that's completely empty except for the fighters, officials and people necessary to do the broadcast, it seems to me that boxing. MMA or wrestling at this time is an especially bad idea.

You need to have an ambulance or two continuously present. Those would probably be needed elsewhere. The fighters who are injured badly enough to require medical attention would end up in an emergency room where they'd likely be infected. They'd also be occupying a bed and hospital staff that someone else would need.