Should Coronavirus Impact the Sports Calendar?

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As we head into spring, we also enter one of the busiest times on the American sports calendar, with events such as the NCAA Tournament, MLB opening day and the NBA and NHL playoffs on the horizon. But the nature of sporting events, where masses of people travel to be live and in-person at a stadium or arena, makes them seemingly vulnerable to disease outbreaks. With coronavirus grabbing headlines, will these highlights of the sports calendar be affected?

According to the Wall Street Journal, sports leagues are “monitoring the situation closely.” Despite experts warning against outright cancellations of mass events, if the U.S. were to follow the lead of other countries in Asia and Europe, certain events might look very different.

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