The coronavirus is destroying everything

[SectorZ]

I've thought over the last few hours that this could lead to permanent Olympic changes, as in the Summer Games moving to 2022 (Tokyo), 2026 (Paris), 2030 (Los Angeles), and so on, with the Winter Games moving to 2024, 2028, and so on. This would also allow the IOC to potentially find a new host for the 2024 Winter Games as the 2022 Games were scheduled to be held in Beijing. I could see China banned from the next Olympiad for both Summer and Winter and from the next World Cup.

Moving the Summer Olympics to conflict with the World Cup would not end well, even looking beyond the implications for soccer players.

Maybe a bump of one year for all of them, giving Tokyo 2021, Beijing (or somewhere else) 2023, etc...

[cwf1701]

Is it possible that they will not be a Stanley Cup in hockey played this year? This could be the third time they will not be a Stanley Cup champion (the other two was 1919 and 2005).

[bing101]

https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/four-brooklyn-nets-players-test-positive-coronavirus-team-announces




Update 4 Brooklyn Nets Players have tested positive for COVID-19

[Alps]

Removed extraneous posting. Please keep this to sports.

[Stephane Dumas]

The  Quebec Major Junior Hockey League cancelled the remaining of the regular season and their upcoming draft will be online. https://www.capebretonpost.com/sports/local-sports/updated-quebec-major-junior-hockey-league-cancels-remainder-of-regular-season-425647/
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/qmjhl-draft-conducted-online-amid-covid-19-pandemic/

[thspfc]

I don't understand why so many one-time events are going to be cancelled rather than just postponed. For example, the Masters could simply supplant literally any other tournament on the PGA schedule from now until August, save for maybe the U.S. open.

[NWI_Irish96]

I don't understand why so many one-time events are going to be cancelled rather than just postponed. For example, the Masters could simply supplant literally any other tournament on the PGA schedule from now until August, save for maybe the U.S. open.

The Masters is postponed rather than cancelled.  It's just sloppy reporting that is lumping it in with other tournaments on the schedule which are actually cancelled.  It will likely be played in the Fall.

[Bruce]

Major League Rugby has cancelled its entire season and won't crown a champion.

This means two-time defending champion Seattle can keep the title, despite having a pretty bad start to their 2020 season.

[1995hoo]

F1 postponed the May races, including Monaco (which effectively means cancelling Monaco because of the process involved in setting up the circuit). Meanwhile, Prince Albert of Monaco tested positive for the virus.

[hbelkins]

NASCAR says they're going to reschedule the races that are being postponed.

Wonder if they'll try more of the "Pocono doubles" that they'd planned for this year to work around the Olympics?

There are only a handful of open dates on the schedule. Easter is one, but it's coming up shortly. Mother's Day is another, but they have been running some races on Saturday night of that weekend in recent years.

[74/171FAN]

NASCAR says they're going to reschedule the races that are being postponed.

Wonder if they'll try more of the "Pocono doubles" that they'd planned for this year to work around the Olympics?

There are only a handful of open dates on the schedule. Easter is one, but it's coming up shortly. Mother's Day is another, but they have been running some races on Saturday night of that weekend in recent years.

Right now the evening before Mother's Day is when NASCAR plans to restart at Martinsville.

[Stephane Dumas]

One guy on the Hamilton-Spectator wonder when a Toronto team won a championship, if it's bring a curse?
https://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/9906106-the-2020-coronavirus-pandemic-and-the-curse-of-toronto-sports-teams/

There's also a French article about this as well and I got to agree with that poster on Twitter.
https://www.ballecourbe.ca/toronto-malediction-sportive
https://twitter.com/D6plus/status/1238359003232645121

[1995hoo]

F1 postponed the May races, including Monaco (which effectively means cancelling Monaco because of the process involved in setting up the circuit). Meanwhile, Prince Albert of Monaco tested positive for the virus.

Monaco cancelled, rather than postponed, per the organizers.

[LM117]

The NFL has it's first COVID-19 case...

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28927492/saints-sean-payton-says-tested-positive-coronavirus

[GaryV]

Kind of ironic that Michigan very recently approved sports betting in casinos, isn't it?

Now both the sports and the casinos are shut down.

[bing101]

https://abc7.com/health/2-la-lakers-test-positive-for-coronavirus/6029455/


Update Two members of the L.A. Lakers have been tested positive for COVID-19

[NWI_Irish96]

Kind of ironic that Michigan very recently approved sports betting in casinos, isn't it?

Now both the sports and the casinos are shut down.

Seems like professional sports in Michigan have been shut down for a few years now.

[Scott5114]

Horse racing - Horse races are being held (and shown in HD on Fox Sports One) and will continue to be.  Because the horses have to be cared for, the workers have to come to work anyway, no extra risk with closed grandstands.  Issue will be when the winter tracks are supposed to close and the spring tracks open, but its the same people traveling around anyway.

Most tracks have a live feed on their website that you can watch for free.

[Alps]

ESPN8 appeared today magically just to give SOME sports to watch - even if they're last year's, most people wouldn't have seen any of them.

[rickmastfan67]

FOX is going to show a really old NASCAR race today @ 3PM.  1986 Richmond.  But this depends on if the local affiliates will show it.  Still, it's super cool that they are going to show a race that most people would have never seen, instead of, say, last years race @ Homestead (which is the race track that they would have be at).

https://twitter.com/nascaronfox/status/1241371148945850368

[SP Cook]

Younger fans seeing how great NASCAR was back then, before Brian France's idiotic rules changes, will just show them how great the sport used to be.  Racing back to the caution, no head in a harness spotter dependence, no segments, no idiotic chase, who won the race that week was of paramount importance not making some idiotic chase to be held months later which produces a random result, cars that were truly based up and resembled stock, drivers there mostly on merit and not because of whose grandson they are. 

[bing101]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51991851


Here is an Update Lorenzo Sanz the former Real Madrid President has died due to the complications of COVID-19.

[hbelkins]

Younger fans seeing how great NASCAR was back then, before Brian France's idiotic rules changes, will just show them how great the sport used to be.  Racing back to the caution, no head in a harness spotter dependence, no segments, no idiotic chase, who won the race that week was of paramount importance not making some idiotic chase to be held months later which produces a random result, cars that were truly based up and resembled stock, drivers there mostly on merit and not because of whose grandson they are.

ESPN used to run full-day marathons of some of the older races on holidays. Jocko Maggiacomo, Earnhardt in the #2 Wrangler Ford, Tim Richmond, Harry Gant.

Yesterday they ran some kind of simulated racing event with drivers from the various levels participating. Denny Hamlin body-slammed Dale Jr. coming out of the last turn to win. Mike Joy and Jeff Gordon were doing their usual commentary.

A funny story coming out of this concerns the rerunning of some NCAA tournament games. There are several videos circulating of youngsters watching the infamous UK-Duke Christian Laettner game. Of course, the parents knew how that one turned out, but the kids didn't. In one of the videos, a kid kicked a pillow. In another one, a kid was holding his younger brother and threw him to the ground in disgust (he was unharmed). We're raising a whole new generation of Wildcat fans to hate Duke and Laettner thanks to the coronavirus.

I'd like to see a replay of the 1975 regional final between UK and unbeaten Indiana. That was the only game I ever saw my dad get excited about. Everyone's feelings were still raw about what happened earlier in the year when Bobby Knight slapped Joe B. Hall in the back of the head. They were friends before that, but not afterwards. I just saw a portion of a recent interview with the now-91-year-old Hall who said that he wouldn't pee up Knight's backside if his guts were on fire. It's a common expression of dislike around here, but Hall hasn't forgotten, and he said that victory was probably his most meaningful during his 13 years at UK.

[RobbieL2415]

The NRL has suspended their season after playing without spectators.

[LM117]

Looks like the Olympics are gonna get postponed.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2020/03/23/olympics-2020-ioc-member-tokyo-games-postponed-dick-pound-coronavirus/2899848001/