Many American institutions have acted swiftly in response to the coronavirus. But in the world of American sports, it’s undeniable how little fear, or even preparation, there has been. williamfleitch writes
One guy who’s not taking this seriously enough. Photo: Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images In disaster movies, you always know a city is done for when the sports stadiums go down.
But in the world of American sports, it’s undeniable how little fear, or even preparation, there has really been. We have seen considerable international reaction to the coronavirus, from the European leagues playing games in front of empty stadiums to Japanese baseball pushing back its season to the possibility that the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo may have to be canceled entirely.
Meanwhile, the MIT Sloan Conference this past week, featuring supposedly sports’ most analytical and scientifically based minds, didn’t feature a single mention of the virus. Some sports have even defied local municipalities’ explicit demands. The city of San Francisco has recommended the cancellation of “large gatherings,” but the Golden State Warriors, in its shiny new Chase Center, played Friday and is expected to lace up against the Clippers on Tuesday and Thursday nights.
Why are sports so hesitant? Part of the answer is, of course, money. Take what has happened to Austin with South by Southwest — which some local merchants in danger of going out of business with the loss of this year’s festival — and multiply it exponentially, particularly with the NCAA basketball tournament, whose hosts have been planning for the arrival of tens of thousands of tourists for several years now.
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