Posted on 03/10/2020 4:35:48 PM PDT by buckalfa
COLUMBUS, OH (WOWK) – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine advises all indoor sporting events to eliminate spectators in an attempt to control the spread of COVID-19.
DeWine said he also advised Ohio colleges and universities to cancel face-to-face classes and use remote learning.
He says schools should stop all school-sanctioned international travel. All those who have traveled internationally recently, or spent their Spring Break on a cruise ship, should be evaluated.
The governor does not call for K-12 schools to close at this time but says it could be a possibility in the future.
My granddaughters are playing in a rec league champ bball game on Sat.
Will be interesting to see if they allow specs.
MLB games can be played inside elementary school gyms-—if they use brightly colored fat plastic fungo bats borrowed from the kids.
And NBA on the playground lots in urban areas with police taping the perimeter with yellow caution tapes.
Sad. Maybe they can do like the World Series skype screen contact between loving family at home and the armed forces person in the Middle East or on an aircraft carrier.
The Big West Conference took the governor’s advice for the upcoming basketball tournament. The Honda Center in Anaheim and Walter Pyramid in Long Beach will have no spectators.
https://www.the562.org/2020/03/10/no-spectators-allowed-for-big-west-tournament/
Oh my, almost what it was apparently like going to a Cleveland Barons home game in Richfield during that team’s days as an NHL team from 1976 to 1978.
The WNBA doesn’t have to worry about this.
Nuts. My daughter competed in a sports event they had In Columbus that was planned to draw 200,000 people - and they prohibited spectators (at the request of the city of Columbus). But they permitted the 27,000 competitors.
The merchants and everybody else in the city were devastated. It was an insane overreaction. Columbus is a big convention and event city, and this is going to do much more damage to it than the virus, in the unlikely event that it entered through this, could ever have done.
The Columbus BlueJackets already said no. Good for them, this is BS. If they were really worried they’d cancel public school.
But hey, cancel the audiences on the offside chance 1 person in
15 meets might show up with the virus, and if 100 people get infected,
one person may die.
There's money to be made. Just develop kits for people who want
to stay in their closet for the next three months.
Be sure to include knee pads, for when they knock them together.
You mean there aren't enough lesbians?
Hey.
The sports participants touch each other, huff and puff as they run, spit,maybe even get into a fight, etc.
Better eliminate all the participants.
Or they can play by video, remotely.
New Jersey Devils: the 334 Club
334 fans show up for a game in New Jersey during a blizzard in 1987. The starts two hours late because most of the players can’t get to the arena on time. The team sends them all personal letters and gives them a bunch of memorabilia. A legend grows over time. They still have reunions every year even 30+ years later.
Well I guess we need to cancel the NCAA basketball and go on and cancel next season’s football also.
They’re scheduled to play in the Big10 tournament here in Indy on Thursday.
I was scheduled to give some presentations at a large builders show in Rhode Island next week. The show just got delayed till August.
Throws my plans into flux. Fortunately I was planning to drive rather than fly
That will fix things.
Neat story, and I do recall when it did happen. As an aside, I can remember someone (and maybe it was in a humourous, sarcastic manner) telling me that during that time when the Barons franchise was in the NHL, it almost always seemed that a storm was blowing off of Lake Erie making the drive to Richfield Coliseum (now long since torn down) even that more of a challenge in order to take in a Barons home game. And it seemed that the weather was that more cooperative when it involved going to an NBA Cavaliers game there.
That’s okay for Cleveland State. Nobody goes to the home hoops anyway.
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