Why It Only Took One Player With Coronavirus To Shutter Sports
Posted on AllSides March 13th, 2020
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After Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert became the first athlete in American professional sports to publicly disclose a positive test result for the coronavirus (COVID-19), it took less than 24 hours for the rest of the sports world to come to a screeching halt.
Gobert’s positive test was reported late Wednesday night, just about an hour after Utah’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder was originally set to tip off. By Thursday evening, the ripple effect was massive: in addition to the NBA, each of the NFL, MLS, NWSL, U.S....
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