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Coronavirus and Sports,..The Effects.

The NHL's coronavirus pause: Where the games could be played, latest on the draft, more
It has been 46 days. As players, executives and fans continue to adjust to the new normal, we will provide updates every Monday, answering all the burning questions about the various angles of the NHL's relation to the pandemic.

Hurricanes owner: NHL without fans like YMCA
The NHL paused its regular season on March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Dundon believes the league will finish its 2019-20 season this summer "assuming we have testing." But he believes the 2020-21 season should start when fans can return to the arena.
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White House discusses reopening plan with sports leagues
Chief medical officers from major sports leagues participated in a call Tuesday with Seema Verma, who is a member of the White House coronavirus task force and administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Pirates temporarily suspend 401k benefits for baseball ops staff
General manager Ben Cherington said Tuesday that the team has been searching for ways to find savings with the 2020 season on hold. The temporary suspension of retirement benefits is part of an effort to avoid any potential personnel cutbacks.
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International Golf Federation pushes back Olympic qualifying deadlines​

With the postponement of the Olympic Games by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Golf Federation announced Wednesday that it was pushing back the qualifying deadline by the same time frame. Players will now earn Official Golf Ranking points through June 21, 2021 for men and June 28, 2021 for women. The field for both tournaments will have 60 players. The men's rankings are based off the Official World Golf Ranking and the women's off the Rolex Rankings. In March, after the various golf schedules were put on hold, the governing bodies announced that the world rankings would be suspended as of March 20. They will resume, presumably, when play starts again around the world. The qualification window was scheduled to close in June, for the men following the U.S. Open. Both qualification periods have now been pushed back exactly a year.

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White House discusses reopening plan with sports leagues​

Chief medical officers from major sports leagues participated in a call Tuesday with Seema Verma, who is a member of the White House coronavirus task force and administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. The call, according to a White House official, was to go over how sports play a role in President Donald Trump's plan for opening up America amid the coronavirus pandemic. Verma also updated league medical officials on the latest testing available and encouraged them to follow guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among those representing the various sports leagues were officials from Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NBA, the WNBA, the NHL, the PGA Tour, the LPGA Tour, the NCAA, the College Football Playoff, the National Women's Soccer League, NASCAR, PGA of America, the Masters Tournament, the United States Tennis Association, as well as a few other organizations.

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The uncertain future for John Augenstein and top amateur golfers everywhere
The Masters is rescheduled for Nov. 12-15 (and the U.S. Open is now set for Sept. 14-17), but for Augenstein and the other amateurs who qualified -- Abel Gallegos, Yuxin Lin, Lukas Michel and James Sugrue -- they will need to remain an amateur to compete.


How the coronavirus pandemic has given leverage to NHL players
It only took 27 years, a few lockouts and a global coronavirus pandemic, but National Hockey League players might finally have some leverage against commissioner Gary Bettman and the owners.
 
NFL set to release full 17-week schedule next week, league spokesman says
The league will release its 2020 schedule late next week without any major changes, league spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed -- including a Sept. 10 opener, the Super Bowl on Feb. 7 and visions of fans in the stands.


NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will not accept a salary during the pandemic. The league raised more than $100 million for coronavirus relief during the NFL draft.
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Sources: NBA discusses delaying start of 2020-21 season until December​

As ownership support grows for the idea, commissioner Adam Silver and the NBA board of governors continued discussions Friday about delaying the start of the 2020-21 season until December, sources told ESPN. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NBA's thinking and planning has progressed on the idea independent of whether the 2019-20 season resumes and is completed, sources said. For the NBA, the crux of the idea to delay the start of next season centers on the ability to buy more time to get fans back into arenas for the most possible games, sources said.

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GMs concerned about coronavirus risk for older coaches, staff if NBA resumes play​

As the NBA seeks solutions to return to action during the coronavirus pandemic, teams are weighing scenarios for potential games with only essential personnel present. Perhaps a key factor in such decisions, beyond titles or responsibilities, is the health and age of those staffers, NBA general managers told ESPN. One NBA general manager, speaking on the condition of anonymity, pointed to the age of the team's head coach and others on the staff and said he would feel uneasy about those coaches being present for games, given the factors that place some people at a higher risk for serious issues because of the virus. "I don't want to put them in harm's way," the general manager said.

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GMs concerned about coronavirus risk for older coaches, staff if NBA resumes play
As the NBA seeks solutions to return to action during the coronavirus pandemic, teams are weighing scenarios for potential games with only essential personnel present.

LeBron James retorts to shutdown chatter: 'We would like to finish our season'
"As soon as it's safe we would like to finish our season," read part of a tweet James posted Thursday in response to speculation that some in league circles are divided about the goal of resuming play. "I'm ready and our team is ready. Nobody should be canceling anything."
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