The post-coronavirus sports world

The live entertainment industry, specifically North American professional sports leagues, are arguably taking the hardest hit from the wave of cancellations that have plagued the entire world due to the response of the spread of COVID-19. Cancellations were inevitable for sporting events where attendance can easily exceed 40,000 people, but what lies ahead for the MLB season that was supposed to start, it’s rigorous 162 game schedule at the beginning of April? The answer is unclear, even to the MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. Spring training games were suspended on March 12th with the original plan to postpone the regular season by as little as 2 weeks. This duration has since come and gone, with an increasingly indefinite return date for the nation’s pastime. As precautionary measures have been taken in various industries worldwide concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals are learning how to protect themselves and others. These safety measures will undoubted...

With championship tournaments and entire seasons being canceled, what are the implications for universities now that sports are put on hold? March Madness canceled from USAToday On Thursday, March 12, 2020, the National Collegiate Athletic Association canceled all NCAA winter and spring championships , including the highly anticipated NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament lovingly referred to as March Madness due to the looming threat of the Coronavirus pandemic. This occurred only days after teams in the West Coast, Summit League, Southern, Patriot League, Ohio Valley, Northeast, Mountain West, Horizon League, Colonial, Big South, Atlantic Sun, and Missouri Valley Conferences completed their own conference championship tournaments and punched their tickets to the Big Dance. This also occurred only four days after NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball, Dan Gavitt, stated March Madness was going to take place as normal at all planned locations with fans in the stan...

P icture this: it's February 2020, which allegedly was just two months ago. Much like the rest of America, we were operating in " normal " mode: attending our college classes, spending time in public, enjoying social gatherings. We decided we wanted to make a blog about the upcoming March Madness tournament, where we would use intricate algorithms, analytical findings, and a bit of common sense to give advice on how to make a winning bracket.   The scene of what was once a standard Wednesday night for basketball in March. Even for the most prepared among us, what seemed like a realistic but distant risk swiftly became reality. On what was once a normal Wednesday night in early March, the Oklahoma City Thunder and Utah Jazz were minutes away from facing off in a potential playoffs preview. Abruptly, the game was suspended, Rudy Gobert was announced to have tested positive, and the NBA shut down its operations indefinitely. After this bombshell announcement, whi...