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

Of their 14 games, 11 were at home. Series were against Northern Colorado, Seattle University and Niagara. The latter of these -- a baseball series in which a team from Buffalo plays at a team from Boise -- is the sort of thing administrators will examine and say, "Why were we doing that?"

 

And they were going to play a full Mountain West schedule as well.

We were talking about realignment in college football elsewhere, but reshuffling leagues in minor, er, Olympic sports wouldn't surprise me.

 

It just has to be regionally based. This is a problem for baseball programs in cold climates. I can't believe Niagara has a baseball team in the first place. The answer is that they didn't play a home game until March 21. Road trips before then: Tallahassee; Durham; Richmond; Pullman and Boise; Harrisonburg, Va.
Start the season for everybody in the third week of March. Limit non-conference games and resulting travel. Simple savings right there.

 

This. I'm thinking of something like the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, which includes members of the Pac-12, WCC and MW and sponsors sports not covered by those conferences, like men's volleyball, water polo and indoor track and field, to name a few.

 

Using state initials, I get:

California
Hawaii
Idaho
Colorado
Arizona
Nevada
Oregon

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Which one?

 

We’re way long past the days when reporters flew on the team planes.

 

Assuming the reporter has to stay the whole time, that's about $50,000 for the duration. Sounds expensive, but a playoff series that goes seven games and starts on the road might cost a paper $7,000 to send one writer. A week-long road swing could cost just as much if not more. Any outlet that is already traveling full time should be more than able and more than willing to cover this. They might even make out on the deal.