Where Does the Sports World Go From Here?

Posted on March 12, 2020
FORT COLLINS, CO – NOVEMBER 01: A lone fan takes his seat as the Brigham Young Cougars and the Colorado State Rams take the field to warm up prior to the game at Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium on November 1, 2008 in Fort Collins, Colorado. BYU defeated CSU 45-42. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

 

The past 24 hours in the news cycle has just simply been insane. Last night, I’m sitting on my couch watching Syracuse beating North Carolina, when all of a sudden my phone and news feeds came flooding in with the latest developments with the spread of the coronavirus in the United States. It started last night when the Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder where set to tip off when all of a sudden the game was put on hold and later cancelled.

 

When then learned shortly there after that Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. Shortly there after we got the news that set social media and the news cycle on fire.

 

This sent shock waves through out the sports world. This morning many other leagues have followed suit with the NBA and have started to cancel tournaments and seasons for the foreseeable future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only sport that is continuing on at the moment I’m writing this is the NCAA basketball tournament but it’s looking more and more of a possibility that the tournament is cancelled all together. Right now we are facing something that frankly no one has ever dealt with before. What do you when sports all together just stops?

March and April are always the busiest times in the world of sports. You have March Madness, the start of the MLB season, the NBA and NHL playoffs get underway, the Masters you name it and so on. Now all of those sports are taking a pause. This is an incredibly strange and weird timeline we are living in. I’m a producer for a sports talk show, when there is no sports going on, what do I end up talking about? I don’t want to add to the fear mongering of the coronavirus, but honestly what else am I suppose to talk about? No one can ignore what’s going on. I would love to talk about anything else right now trust me I do. But the coronavirus is impacting every aspect of our daily lives.

So where do we go from here? I don’t have the answers and really everyone is trying to figure out what to do going from here. The good thing is that leagues like the NBA, MLB, and NHL are only pausing their seasons not cancelling them. We have no idea how long these breaks are going to be, but these leagues will resume play once again. It may mean a shorter regular season, shorter playoffs, moving seasons further into the summer to accommodate for time lost. The main point is that these leagues will play again, but in the meantime they are going to take a break and develop plans as to how to go forward.

I know there are people out there saying this is all an overreaction and there’s no reason to worry. While I’m remaining calm, this needs to and is starting to be taken seriously. This is not “just the flu” and something that will “go away.” This is a serious illness that in impacting the entire world. In the end we are all going to be okay. We have faced challenges like this in society and we have come through. But in order to make sure we’re going to be okay, we all have to work together and make sacrifices to make sure we keep each other safe and healthy. If that means not going to some big events for a while, then so be it. Yes it will suck, but it won’t be forever just a temporary pause on life. The sports world and life will go on. But for now, we all have to take this day by day and get ready to live in a world without sports for a while.

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