When you say players do you mean stu-dent ath-oo-lets or slaves?
NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships
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#43So soft. Teams should just play. Anyone that isn't sick can play. It's a 5v5 game. Next thing you know tennis matches will be canceled.
Great majority of cases are asymptomatic, great majority of symptomatic cases are very mild possibly indistinguishable from common cold so people may be inclined to ignore it. So, it's not safe to have any gatherings of this scale since inevitably many people will be infected.
Is it actually true that the great majority are asymptomatic? I know the great majority of cases (currently, in the US) are untested, but they might very well be symptomatic.
Also, is it true that the great majority are as mild as the common cold? I ask just because I heard "mild" encompasses "feels like death but doesn't need hospitalization", like the kind of cold I've had perhaps twice in my life.
(Asking from the point of view of being all-in-favor of canceling large gatherings, to protect the folks that would be hit hard by the illness.)
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#44hate it for the folks and families directly impacted but it is the safe decision. it does make you think about how much of this is temporary and how much results in sustained, macro level changes. let's say many countries, companies and individuals "get used" to how we will need to live over the next weeks/months. what things that we used to take as "norms" may change, permanently, and what would the second and third…
Also.. what freedoms are now at risk in an attempt to prevent the next pandemic?
ALL of them. Tragedies are never wasted.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
The real risk isn't with the players -- the real risk is that if you have someone (spectator, foodservice worker, officail, etc.) who's been infected, but hasn't yet shown any symptoms, they're interacting with a ton of other people in a short span in an uncontrolled way. It's a huge potential driver for community spread.
They had already announced that the tournament would be held without audiences (and presumably food service workers and so on) yesterday.
I thought I heard that "without audiences" still meant family, etc. would still be allowed onsite in the stands.
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#47This should result in an immediate extra year of scholarship eligibility for any of the kids effected.
The scholarship is for an academic degree, not resume polishing for a professional athletic league. It's in the name.
That's a nice fantasy you are having, but for the elite athletes in the money sports, the scholarship has nothing whatever to do with an academic degree.
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#48But... but... now I don't have anything to watch while I'm quarantined!
Seriously, it's a bit of a bummer. I had hopes that this year a non-power-conference team (Gonzaga, San Diego State, Dayton) could win it all. I know there are bigger issues to worry about, but it's still a disappointment.
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#49MLS suspended it's season for 30 days. MLB opening day postponed for at least two weeks. NHL suspended it's season. Nascar is likely next.
I can see them not having fans at the races, but Nascar drivers and pit crews seem like they are at a lot less risk compared to basketball players.
I would actually think this would be a great time for Nascar to capitalize on other sports being suspended.
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#50This is going to have a cascading economic impact. There are the channels that cover the tournament (e.g., ESPN), the tournament bracket sites that get ad revenue, the local businesses around the stadiums that host the games, and so much more.
But interestingly, it won't affect the players' immediate economic futures, as they're all prohibited from being paid by the NCAA.
Hmm you don’t think there’s any seniors that could play so well that they’d make the NBA draft?