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Covid battering NBA, NFL, NHL, sidelining key players and postponing games
NBC 'News' ^ | 12/15/21 | Antonio Planas, AP

Posted on 12/17/2021 1:54:54 AM PST by Libloather

Covid-19 is disrupting the NFL, NBA and NHL, sidelining dozens of players, including some of the leagues’ biggest stars.

New cases this week have battered the leagues and prompted NBA and NHL postponements. The NFL is grappling with the virus’ wrath with the playoffs beginning next month.

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William Parham, a professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a psychologist who works with elite athletes, said professional sports leagues are doing well to keep their seasons afloat. He said athletes have been resilient.

Covid-19 and its variants are here for the indefinite future, Parham said. Upticks in infections only show athletes are like the rest of us, Parham said.

“If anything, coronavirus and its various strains, suggest it is an equal opportunity virus,” he said. “It doesn’t discriminate. And everybody is vulnerable including, the best trained and gifted athletes. … They’re not immune.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: breadandcircuses; covid; nba; nfl; nhl

Even in a league with a 99% vaccination rate, breakthrough cases on the Senators have now infected more than 40% of the roster.

I'm waiting for the radio ad on that one.

1 posted on 12/17/2021 1:54:54 AM PST by Libloather
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breakthrough cases on the Senators have now infected more than 40% of the roster.

If only that was about the Senators in Washington DC.

2 posted on 12/17/2021 1:56:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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either way...WINNING!...they got caught in their hypocrisy....


3 posted on 12/17/2021 2:05:15 AM PST by cherry
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To: Libloather

OH NOOOOOOEZ !!!!


4 posted on 12/17/2021 2:14:24 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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And everybody is vulnerable including, the best trained and gifted athletes. … They’re not immune.

They're not immune? but, but they got the vax

5 posted on 12/17/2021 2:22:37 AM PST by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: Libloather
Gee...maybe if they knelt longer during the National Anthem they wouldn't have that problem.
6 posted on 12/17/2021 2:30:58 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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I would really like to see the college football playoffs, at least the first game to see my Bearcats eliminated. Other than that, I hope the whole damn bunch of professional thugs get the sniffles.


7 posted on 12/17/2021 3:08:29 AM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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If only that was about the Senators in Washington DC.

Alas, the Senators Lords in Washington, DC have access to drugs and treatments that they deny to the peasants, so they don't have to worry.

8 posted on 12/17/2021 3:14:46 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Der impfstoff macht frei. The vaccine will make you free. Your papers, please.)
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“If anything, coronavirus and its various strains, suggest it is an equal opportunity virus,” he said.

Indeed. It doesn't even care if you're jabbed or not....

9 posted on 12/17/2021 3:28:06 AM PST by Gaffer
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If only that was about the Senators in Washington DC.

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Per Dr. Kory, one of the telemedicine docs he works with has treated about 200 Congress critters, staff & family - taking Ivermectin ... you know, the stuff that we Deplorables, the ‘little people’, have to get at Tractor Supply? That’s why you don’t see an NFL style ‘breakout’ in the Capitol.


10 posted on 12/17/2021 3:35:48 AM PST by Qiviut ("Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
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Now that’s what I call “discrimination” when the Kung Flu is going after the professional stick and ball boy millionaires.


11 posted on 12/17/2021 3:44:15 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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I don’t know but maybe the “vaccines” aren’t working.


12 posted on 12/17/2021 4:48:09 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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Just vax harder, that’ll do the trick. Retards.


13 posted on 12/17/2021 4:54:06 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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Young healthy athletes are “battling” the sniffles and can’t taste their food. Wow, how terrible.... /sarcasm


14 posted on 12/17/2021 5:04:51 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Headline fixed —

Covid TESTING battering NBA, NFL, NHL, sidelining key players and postponing games


15 posted on 12/17/2021 5:15:21 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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40% failure rate and rising. But they want the remaining half of the nation to get poked.


16 posted on 12/17/2021 6:50:32 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: Libloather

Great news.


17 posted on 12/17/2021 7:16:00 AM PST by moovova
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