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

So raw.

 

Sounds like the plan the juco association announced last week.

 

From KCRA in Sacramento, plans for the Sac-Joaquin Section, covering an area from Grass Valley to Los Banos. Very much like the juco plan.
High school fall sports delayed in NorCal, sources say

 

Should it still bother me 45 years after graduating from high school that Oakland and San Francisco are their own sections, but North Coast, Sac-Joaquin and Central Coast have hundreds of high schools?

 

I did a look at it a month ago and the Southern Section basically would cover most of New England. And IIRC, the Oakland Section is basically the size of one big league.

I remember having to drive from the desert to a school up near Thousand Oaks outside of LA to cover a playoff football game. At least I didn't have to drive to SLO.

 

And they'll never bust it up because the money for the section is too much.

But you could cut the Southern Section into 4 and still have decent coverage for everyone. I forget how many schools it ended up being, but a group of schools east of Bakersfield recently said nuts to the Southern Section and joined the Central.

 

It's all about the Moore League.

 

Years ago, a small, private school in Santa Monica had a playoff baseball game in Coleville. That is in the Eastern High Sierras, probably less than 20 miles from the Nevada border and Topaz Lake on 395. The school considered having the team fly to Carson City, but instead did the eight-hour bus. This was a second-round game. Coleville played on a converted Little League field that had already been converted back to Little League because "they were on the road for the first round and didn't think they would win." There was no pitchers mound, so the coach did not use his ace, fearing injury. It took them a couple of innings to get accustomed before they won, something like 21-1.
Just think if San Clemente was playing Coleville.