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

Most of the bigger pro rugby leagues will ignore World Rugby's law changes and keep their scrums, rucks, mauls and lineouts as-is.

'Don't anticipate any law changes': Premiership, RFU and WRU set to ignore World Rugby's 10 Covid laws

 

It’s Friday. Be ready for a news dump of more college sports program executions.

 

Beloved NYC sports bar is done.

 

And two sailing teams were upgraded to varsity status.

 

Right. Forgot about them. So Brown's total of sports will be 29. Insane.

 

The best way to get into the Ivy League schools (assuming you have the basic academic skills to do so, don't need perfect SATs or anything close) is to play one of those "minor" sports, especially if you're a girl. At Williams, an Ivy equivalent, I think something like 25 percent of the student body plays a varsity sport of some kind.

 

Am I reading this correctly? Did 29 of the 30 MLB teams make a profit last year? And is their average profit $51 million?
The Business Of Baseball

 

It's so sad that after making millions of dollars hand over fist for about the past 15 years, the one time the owners might have to break even or show a loss for the year, it's too much for them.

 

Affirmative action for rich kids who don’t meet academic requirements. Beyond me why being able to throw a javelin for a shitty D3 school should count for anything in terms of admissions.

 

Again if I'm doing the math correctly, even the most lavish spender on minor league players will pay out about $1.8 million across the entire developmental system. This assumes fielding seven affiliates (AAA, AA, A+, A, short-season A, domestic Rookie and Dominican Rookie) with an average of 27 players per roster. And some teams can't guarantee they'll pay the meager wages beyond this week?
Among those with no guarantees so far: five of the 10 highest valued teams according to Forbes. Of those five, the lowest profit margin appears to belong to the Walgreens, who still had a $27,000,000 profit margin and who are protected by Major League Baseball in their ongoing litigation against the Orioles. They have nothing to fear. Even in a year with no revenue.

 

Ivies admit to fill niches in their programs, athletic, artistic, what have you. My son didn't have anywhere near the grades you're supposed to have for Harvard. He was a solid B+ student, no more. But Harvard waitlisted him just the same because one of his interests was comedy writing and performance. Got to staff that Lampoon. In the end, he went to BU. This has been going on forever. As I've said on college sports threads, my freshman class at Wesleyan in 1967 had four of the top recruits in the country, and a very fine string quartet they were, too.