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

Sports Are Coming Back. Is Sports Media Coming Back With It?

 

It will be interesting to see if private schools in Virginia - which have their own association - will try to have their seasons. And, if so, how many public school players will transfer.

 

Not a whole lot of kids from Varina or Manchester can afford to go to Collegiate or St. Christopher's.

 

Isn't your cost of enrollment inversely proportional to your 40 time?

 

Interesting read about youth sports during the pandemic.

Youth baseball tournaments struggle to adhere to health and safety guidelines

Critics have called into question whether youth sports are truly safe to return, especially as national COVID-19 cases continue to rise. They fear the industry is returning too fast, that financial factors and parental pressure are taking precedence over best possible practices.

“If you’re an elite travel sports team that has been missing out on really high tournament fees or registration fees for a number of months, some of them are pushing the envelope, being a little more aggressive returning,” Solomon said of an industry he said was estimated to be worth more than $19 billion.

... The benefits of getting young people back into sports are obvious, especially after months of mostly limited social interactions and physical competition. But Brooks and Solomon believed more cautious approaches, such as a localized tiered return instead of large-scale travel tournament play, could create the same effect.

“It likely is not going to be the way they were playing the sport before the pandemic,” Brooks said. “So that’s where you’re hoping coaches and parents and leagues manage expectations.”

Added Solomon: “In a lot of ways, it just reflects much of our society. Some of us in society are reopening very quickly, sometimes too quickly. Some of us are being more cautious and going through the appropriate guidelines.”

 

My kids attend a private school here that fields a football team. Enrollment is capped at a social distancing capacity...but for the right transfer, I’m sure they’ll find some extra space.

 

No, it isn't.

This will accelerate the move to covering games remotely - which means teams can convert press boxes into luxury suites and corporate accountants can zero out the travel line item in the budget.

 

Giants to go one man, one booth for their four broadcasters. TV guys will not go on the road (Mike Krukow cut back his travel before the pandemic hit), no word on if radio crew will travel.

 

The noted infectious disease specialist, Eddie O, weighs in

Orgeron: 'We need football' during pandemic

 

I usually like Bryan Curtis, but this was an average story.

I'm more interested in the hoops reporters will have to jump through than Dan Wolken's self-serving feelings about it all. Or, for goodness sakes, a Slate writer.

Missed opportunity, aside from the line about waivers.

 

This is just so wrong on so many levels.

Michael Nunn's Iowa Return Has Commissioner Heading To Exit

 

They all go to Trinity.