The sports world has always felt safe and strong, but maybe it's not. From BillPlaschke
Despite all the warnings and wailings about the COVID-19 virus over recent weeks, the sports world had always felt safe and strong, above infirmity, tougher than any damn flu, our steady beacon of hope in a national crisis. But on one of the most eerily dark days in this country’s sports history, as sudden as a deep cough and as quickly as a loud sneeze, everything changed.
The NBA could be closed for business for a month. Rudy Gobert is its Patient Zero, and, goodness, if the disease can infect a strong athlete and bring down an entire league, it can go anywhere and can reach anybody. The Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas, as well as all other Power 5 conference tournaments, will be played without fans. Major League Soccer games have been postponed. The Los Angeles Unified School District has closed all games to spectators.
This was the day sports became quarantined, which is so backward and so wrong because isn’t sports what we watch when we’re quarantined? Sports aren’t supposed to get sick. Sports are supposed to comfort us when we’re sick.after a Jazz trainer ran out and frantically reported that Gobert had tested positive for coronavirus.The fans were asked to leave the arena in an “orderly fashion,” as if something were on fire. Something was. Our naive belief that sports are impenetrable has been destroyed.
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