Kemba For Three wrote:I can't view the athletic articles, but someone on current affairs can and shared this quote.
https://theathletic.com/1735768/2020/04/10/behind-the-scenes-with-the-utah-jazz-during-the-days-that-changed-everything/On a 45-minute call with Silver and the heads of 11 other prominent sports organizations, President Trump shared his frustration with the absence of sports and urged the commissioners to resume play as soon as possible, according to multiple sources. People close to multiple commissioners involved said they would continue to follow the advice of the health professionals, as opposed to Trump’s urges.
Then there is this article too with a lot of stuff.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/04/10/sports-arent-coming-back-soonFirst, let’s do away with the suggestion, put forth by President Donald Trump, that football season could go on as normal, beginning on time in September and unfolding in front of crowded stadiums.
"We will not have sporting events with fans until we have a vaccine," says Zach Binney, a PhD in epidemiology who wrote his dissertation on injuries in the NFL and now teaches at Emory. Barring a medical miracle, the process of developing and widely distributing a vaccine is likely to take 12 to 18 months.
Until the vast majority of the population is immune to COVID-19, the disease the virus causes, any gathering as large as an NFL game risks setting off a biological bomb. That may sound like hyperbole, but that's the exact phrase a doctor in Bergamo, Italy’s hardest hit city, used to describe a Feb. 19 soccer match between hometown Atalanta and Spain’s Valencia, which super-charged the virus’s spread.
I can't imagine sports staying completely shut down until we have a vaccine in two years. There's far too many people depending on that money. I think at some point leagues are going to start resuming play without crowds, and that a bunch of players as well as team, league, stadium, and media employees will get sick as a result.
