Baseball’s crazy COVID Season of cardboard cutout fans and recorded crowd noise is over. The Los Angeles Dodgers finally figured out how to get out of their own way and to win a World Championship in 2020. The long winter of our COVID-19 discontent is over. The “boys of summer” are back playing in front … Read more
Caption: Arizona Wildcats head coach Adia Barnes embraces Arizona Wildcats guard Aari McDonald (2) as the team celebrates their win over Indiana in the Elite Eight NCAA Tournament regional final game at The Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on March 29, 2021. Arizona wins 66-53 and is headed to the Final Four. – Mamta Popat … Read more
I do an annual post about the start of the major league baseball season, but this year the season was delayed by major league sports shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day on April 15, when the players all wear uniform No. 42 and remember baseball’s most important … Read more
I love baseball. I really miss baseball. But this decision makes no business sense to me at all. Why would Major League Baseball force its most valuable assets, its players, to risk contracting COVID-19 with possible long-term debilitating effects that could cut short their career, or even result in death? Just for TV revenue from … Read more
On Sunday I posed the question, Will coronavirus lead to sporting events being played without fans in the stands? I reviewed what sports leagues had done to date in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Today the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic: By reversing course and using the charged word “pandemic” … Read more