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

Problem with that, in non-revenue sports, a lot of schools will not be able to afford to pay this year's seniors and next year's freshman class, even if these are partial scholarships. That's the big issue with this. Some seniors are going to be told to move on.

 

Gettleman putting on the mask for the cameras?

 

This compels a question: If they don't play in 2020, do players get credit for service time?

 

They do.

 

He's got an IT guy and others around, and he's a recent cancer survivor and went through chemo. Probably better to be extra cautious.

 

Top-flight soccer league in the Netherlands cancels the remainder of the season.

https://www.si.com/soccer/2020/04/24/eredivisie-cancels-season-netherlands-no-champion-relegation

 

I'm still on the email list for the group I volunteered for at Dragoncon. DC is similar to San Diego Comic Con - 50,000 geeks partying, in panels and meeting rooms, drinking while in belly to back crowds in the hotel lobbies, cramming into elevators. 90% of my group said that they still planned to come. It happens over the long Labor Day weekend.

No way in hell they hold it. They're crazy as hell if they even try.

 

Why Cons Are Waiting for a Legal “Act of God” Before Canceling

 

Oh, I don't doubt that they have business reasons for handling things as they do. DC is a for-profit enterprise, and as an annual event has ongoing big dollar contracts with multiple hotels, event sites, and sponsors. They also have contracts with the big name guests which have to be honored. The thing is absolutely enormous. They sell out the downtown Atlanta Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton and Westin hotels.

As things stand, they have tens of thousands of memberships pre-sold at better than $100 each. They have a non-refundable or transferable membership policy, and I have no idea how that is addressed. Also, all of the rooms across five high rise downtown hotels are presold and prepaid as well. The money end of it is going to be a clusterfuck.

Good article, TSP, thanks a lot.



"In order to make sure that they’re not going to be sued and it’s legally safe to cancel (and that they can get insurance), conventions can’t just shut down, they have to wait for someone else to tell them to and that’s usually state or local authorities. If, for instance, a city pulls a convention’s permit or a governor issues a stay-at-home order, that makes the convention impossible, and boom, force majeure is triggered.

But what if your governor is a—to use a technical legal term here—a pudding-brained-nincompoop like Governor Brian Kemp of Gerogia? Kemp wants to reopen many businesses in the state, a move that is so bad that even Donald Trump is calling it dangerous (now). For the organizers of DragonCon, that’s huge because their con takes place in Atlanta, and the reason it’s still on might not just be optimism, it might be because it’s legally and financially risky for them to cancel without an order."

 

My wife is into many things that mesh with my Sci/Fi and fantasy bent. She also goes to the Cons. She sews costumes. She follows but is not active in the Society for Creative Anachronism. She's in costume and knitting groups on Facebook, as well as an Outlander group focused on costume. One of her friends posted this today, on an SCA site.