The PGA and the Masters have still insisted they will play without fans. NASCAR the same. Both as of now.
If you consider wrestling a “sport” AEW is still moving forward with its weekly TNT show, though I believe they are switching venues for one card and limiting attendance. WWE is insisting that WrestleMania is going as scheduled but I feel as if the state of Florida will have something to say about that.
Any others in North America? What about countries that have not been affected? A few countries in Central America have not been hit yet, as well as several African nations. I imagine they are still playing soccer.
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In motorsports, Formula 1 cancelled it’s season opener in Australia, but the next race in Bahrain is still scheduled to run without fan attendance. IndyCar is still going on this weekend and like NASCAR, also without spectators. The World Rally round in Mexico is still running as planned, I’m guessing the reason being that the point-to-point nature of rallying doesn’t concentrate crowds in grandstands like circuit racing does. That’s just speculation on my part, though.
Football is now done in the UK. Announced this morning that there will be a 3 week postponement of fixtures to be reviewed early April, but there’s zero chance of a restart IMHO as the virus is certain to escalate.
Some interesting questions to be answered concerning promotion, relegation, and title winners.
A update, the next three F1 Grands Prix - Bahrain, Vietnam, and China - have all been cancelled. The season now will start no earlier than the Dutch Grand Prix in May.
The soccer app that I use shows pretty much every league in the world. Pretty much everything major for Saturday shows cancelled - the only exceptions I see are the Australian A-League, the Russian Premier League and the Turkish Super Lig.
I think some cups may be still going on in South America - I don’t think their regular league seasons start till May.
NASCAR has already been mentioned. I would bet they cancel today though.
Apparently Australian rugby is still playing in front of fans at least for this weekend.
NASCAR “postponed” the next two weekends about an hour or so ago. Listening to ESPN in the background, sounds like UFC is still going forward. Other than that, their only non-coronavirus related highlight so far was some guy throwing a football 60 yards while standing flatfooted.
The Phoenix Suns announced this morning that they are going to “play” their remaining games using the NBA 2K video game, and stream the games live on Twitch.
Cricket:
Most tours are being cancelled and or rescheduled.
The Indian Premier League has been delayed till April 15th.
Pakistan Super League allowed foreign players to leave earlier. To be played behind closed doors and the games played earlier. The final on 22nd March (which I had tickets for) is now to be a closed game on the 17th.
One played in fall colors would be…interesting. [Before someone chimes in, they shut the course down in the summer so that’s out]
It probably severely porks Tiger’s chances of catching Jack, tho; every tournament thru his 50th birthday is crucial, and losing upwards of four shots will likely seal the deal. [nobody has won more than one major from Tiger’s current age on]
I was at my local sports bar last night. Normally, we’d be watching hockey, baseball, spring training baseball, and perhaps one or two others. But without any of those, last night was a little weird, with lots of talking heads sitting behind desks discussing the impact of shutting down most sports, and showing highlights of the season so far. One channel was replaying spring training baseball games.
Still, there was curling, but it was a championship tournament, so I doubt we’ll see much more of that. There was also some kind of MMA being shown.
The talking heads, MMA, and curling got boring quickly, though; so, we went through the channel guide, and ended up with the Fireplace Channel, the Aquarium Channel, and playing along with the Jeopardy game show. A little different, and kind of fun, but I’m not sure how long it will be before that novelty wears off.
Pakistan Super League is going on without spectators on Willow.
ESPN showed a comical highlight from a cricket game (not sure where) where the players had to search the stands for the ball making me wonder are they really that pricey?
And just to be a smartass while fans are banned, why not make it a live ball?
The also hadto modify the post game handshake procedure.
No. The same ball is used for each innings and the changing nature of the ball as it ages is an important factor in gameplay.
The moment the ball crosses the boundary ball is dead.
In the era before security barriers, it was common for the crowd to pour onto the ground after the match was over.
This led to a famous case (in a World Cup Final no less) where the crowd wrongly thought the match was over and the ball had not crossed the boundary nor returned to the fielding side so it was technically “live”. As police shooed the crowd back (and tried to find the ball) the batsmen ran a couple and stopped and there was disagreement as to whether they should run, the senior partner wanted to, but the junior one said that maybe someone in the crowd would find it, give it to a fielder and run them out.
we have 2 short car race tracks and for now they are not cancelling but the start races in April. They may postpone the first few races. I assume our 2 local minor league baseball teams will follow MLB and delay season start by at least 2 weeks.
