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

Right.

Obligatory "Murder, She Wrote" reference (just because).

 

Terrific timing for the ESPN "Sports Is Back" special.
Sports are not coming back. Not in 2020. If they start, they'll shut down.

Our country has refused to recognize the threat this thing poses. We patted ourselves on the back for six weeks of lockdowns, and then we lost patience. States of every political hue caved. The Trumpists were, of course, the first to go. But everybody else chose to follow, selecting myopia and convenience over their own promises to abide by established health-based guidelines. Remember the 14-day downward trend threshold?

Sports are complicit in this. Football is especially preposterous. The situation is so precarious, the NFL says, that rigorous social-distancing procedures must be followed in the locker room, the meeting room, the film room and every other place you can imagine. Except the field. Stay six feet apart in meetings but huddle and tackle when the time comes for war.

 

This article is the poster boy for this thread title
For the NBA players, canceling the season could devastate the salary structure for now and the future

 

A-fucken-men

 

Question: Dr. Fauci has said baseball should not play after September because of the impending second wave. Playing outdoors into the cold weather creates a potential threat, he says. Does this concern not exist for football? Is the idea of halting or refusing to start football simply too intolerable for much of the country to contemplate?

 

the way Ryder Cup fans have behaved for the last 25 years is reason alone to lock these drunken slushmouths out for one event.

 

Covid upside: With planned football half-capacity seating, my alma mater can finally claim an official sell-out!

 

At mine, no one would notice the difference.