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

Jesus Coleville? That's rough. I had teams that had to go to Lee Vining for league games and that was tough (and they were on the same side of the Sierra). I looked them up and mercifully they switched to playing Nevada schools.

 

So is San Francisco. Just the city's public school district, as it is in Oakland. Could be sucked into the Central Coast and North Coast sections respectively, without missing a beat.

The hell of it is, SF''s Catholic schools are in the CCS via membership in the WCAL, and a lot of the small private schools go CCS or NCS.

 

The schools in Eastern Kern County (east of the Tehachapis) joined the Central Section about six years ago, with the proviso that their teams, unless playing another team on that side of the hill, could not host a playoff game the first three years as members. Had a situation once when a higher seeded team had a 4-5 hour bus ride to our area for a softball playoff game, only to a) find out no umpires were assigned because the local school was a low seed and b) as the AD and coach were calling around to find umpires, a freak storm broke out and washed the game out. The visitors got back on the bus and came back the next day, only to lose.

The coastal school moved from the Southern to the Central last school year, and were allowed to host playoff games no matter where the opponent was from.

 

The Lake Tahoe area schools play in a Nevada league instead of the Sac-Joaquin Section. Guess the 15-minute trip to Sacramento was too much for them.

 

The one Eastern Kern school that stayed very nearly landed a state football championship game berth a couple of years ago.

 

I don't know about any of this, but for the longest time Grass Valley was always advertising for sports staff positions, seemingly like every six months or so in Editor & Publisher.

 

That's what happens when you set up sections based on population centers in 1914 and decide never to change them despite 1,100% population growth since World War II.

 

Donner Lake High School found that it ate into their family time.

 

Congratulations, United States. The Canadian government won’t let the Blue Jays host games in Toronto because they don’t want people crossing the border and spreading the virus.

 

The farthest I ever went to cover a football game, nearly 50 years ago, was Santa Monica to Lompoc -- 145 miles. Just checked Santa Monica to Coleville is 390 miles. We didn't cover it. Coach called in.