Sports Impact of Coronavirus COVID19

[Pablo's TB Lover]

A10 currently meeting about decision on continuing their tourney in Brooklyn with or sans fans.

 

[RedOctober3829]

Ohio State and Michigan have cancelled their spring football games.

 

[Doug Beerabelli]

Harvard also forfeited their ECAC quarterfinal series vs. RPI

Really? That’s incredible.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

WTA and ATP Tours likely to shut down until at least Madrid in early May, according to the BBC.

How is professional golf going to cope with all of this? Can The Players be under threat?

 

[Doug Beerabelli]

Good question. I’d think they’d at least ban fans.

 

[InstaFace]

If a lot of colleges cancel sports going on now, will the kids get an extra year of eligibility.

small potatoes in the big picture but I feel bad for my students who are losing their season.

That depends on whether you think of them as students who happen to play sports, or as professional athletes who happen to attend some classes every now and then.

As we know, the NCAA will choose either one depending on what is more self-serving in the moment.

 

[StuckOnYouk]

How many kids would actually use that extra year of eligibility rather than just move on?

 

[VORP Speed]

Ivy League is planning to seek a waiver to grant an extra year of eligibility to all spring sport athletes who just had their season canceled.

 

[Ale Xander]

I'm really surprised MLB hasn't canceled spring training games.

 

[Marciano490]

I'm really surprised MLB hasn't canceled spring training games.

The league isn’t really doing anything with alacrity lately.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

The ATP Tour is taking six weeks off, through at least Monte Carlo and Barcelona (both of those events having now been cancelled):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/51841130

 

[ifmanis5]

Boston Marathon is likely cancelled.
View: https://twitter.com/pzf/status/1238127069239881734

 

[ifmanis5]

MLS is suspended for 30 days.
View: https://twitter.com/pzf/status/1238128882609524736

 

[jayhoz]

Metrowest Basketball has cancelled the remainder of the youth playoffs in MA. This is personally devastating news.

 

[ifmanis5]

MLB meeting soon, likely about Spring Training games...
View: https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1238139824139382788

A conference call among Major League Baseball owners is scheduled soon. With the mass cancellations of sporting events around the country, MLB is facing enormous pressure to follow suit. While nothing is official, baseball is expected to have an announcement at some point soon.
There is a feeling of inevitability among executives that Major League Baseball will be suspending spring training as soon as today, sources tell ESPN.