We've, not surprisingly started, to hit a critical mass of how sports are getting impacted by the coronavirus. I thought it makes sense to have a single place to document and discuss the latest news and impact. (Mods: as always feel free to close if you think this is best served in the more general coronavirus thread, but I think more threads are better, especially one dedicated to sports on a sports-centric message board.)
Just some of the examples so far:
RPI/Harvard ECAC Hockey Playoff Game will be played in empty arena because of COVID19 case in Albany.
Ivy league has cancelled their conference tournament. Yale will go to NCAA tournament as regular season champion.
Start of the Japanese baseball season has been postponed due to the coronavirus. No date has been given yet. I believe the Korean league has done the same.
The Japanese marathon was run only with elite runners a week ago.
San Jose Sharks mulling options after Santa Clara County bans gatherings of >1,000 people for the rest of the month.
All Italian Sports suspended indefinitely.
I'm sure I've missed a bunch of other news articles, so feel free to post those or new stories.
Major upcoming events that I expect to be impacted fairly soon:
Just some of the examples so far:
RPI/Harvard ECAC Hockey Playoff Game will be played in empty arena because of COVID19 case in Albany.
Ivy league has cancelled their conference tournament. Yale will go to NCAA tournament as regular season champion.
Start of the Japanese baseball season has been postponed due to the coronavirus. No date has been given yet. I believe the Korean league has done the same.
The Japanese marathon was run only with elite runners a week ago.
San Jose Sharks mulling options after Santa Clara County bans gatherings of >1,000 people for the rest of the month.
All Italian Sports suspended indefinitely.
I'm sure I've missed a bunch of other news articles, so feel free to post those or new stories.
Major upcoming events that I expect to be impacted fairly soon:
- March Madness tournament starts next Thursday.
- NBA, NHL, MLS are all currently in season in the US and the European Soccer leagues are in season as well.
- MLB opening day is March 26th.
- The Masters is April 9th-12th.
- The Boston Marathon is April 20th.
- The Kentucky Derby is May 2nd.
- The 2020 Euro Cup is scheduled to run from June 12th to July 12th in 12 cities across Italy with 24 teams.
- The 2020 Olympics run from July 24th - August 9th in Tokyo. (see whole other thread on that)