So you cover sports for a living....what do you do NOW?

[CleteyColgate]

Basically every sport except golf, table tennis, and blade throwing is shut down. I am not denouncing the importance of putting health first, but now many people are going to be scrambling for work or at least something to cover. With all these athletes looking for something to do, is there a quarantined sport that we can get everyone into?

UPDATE: The NCAA canceled the golf championship

 

[anon_i8nzeu2gbf0ba]

The PGA will continue to play, but without fans.

 

[H4wkfan4life]

I hear walmart is looking for people to help with toilet paper shipments.....

 

[MepoDawg#]

I hear walmart is looking for people to help with toilet paper shipments.....

Are those even making it out of the semi trailer before it’s gone?

 

[H4wkfan4life]

Are those even making it out of the semi trailer before it’s gone?

Currently they are "falling off the trailer". More shipments in the future though

 

[L. Wade Childress]

They can finally stop complaining about their jobs.

 

[Hawksfor3]

I suppose they could join the media and report on the virus. Or, they could pick up a copy of Boccaccio's "Decameron" and head for the hills.

 

[PinkLockerRoom]

Go be Jon Miller?

 

[13thman]

Basically every sport except golf, table tennis, and blade throwing is shut down. I am not denouncing the importance of putting health first, but now many people are going to be scrambling for work or at least something to cover. With all these athletes looking for something to do, is there a quarantined sport that we can get everyone into?

UPDATE: The NCAA canceled the golf championship

How can they survive without free food?

 

[Printthis86]

They all brag about their high school football days and how out of shape they are now.. plenty of time to workout.. no excuses

 

[Havasu-CY]

My guess would be that all of ESPN went on crisis mode last night when the NBA ended the season because they knew what was coming.

 

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Basically every sport except golf, table tennis, and blade throwing is shut down. I am not denouncing the importance of putting health first, but now many people are going to be scrambling for work or at least something to cover. With all these athletes looking for something to do, is there a quarantined sport that we can get everyone into?

UPDATE: The NCAA canceled the golf championship

Honestly, for someone like me that pretty much watch's and/or reads something sports related to some degree every single day, this is going to be a shock to the system for sure.

Then think about the ESPN's, Fox Sports, BTN, etc., and all sports radio shows, newspapers, magazines, etc. They are going to be scrambling like hell for content for who knows how long. Re-programming, canceled advertising, etc.

I know it's just sports, but man...........

 

[LetsGoHawks83]

Talk about Caronavirus like it's the bubonic plague....like every over media member.

 

[Chelsie2003]

Honestly, for someone like me that pretty much watch's and/or reads something sports related to some degree every single day, this is going to be a shock to the system for sure.

It's going to be a shock to my system too. I sleep with the BTN on during the season. Now I'll have to change it to MSNBC

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Podcasting is all the rage nowadays.....

 

[HawkRugged17]

 

[goodbyebobby]

Hopefully they'll realize their chosen profession isn't really as important as they like to think, and the athletes they cover may want to notice of that fact as well....

Outside of Iowa sports and golf I don't miss anything we don't have playing right now.

 

[CleteyColgate]

Outside of Iowa sports and golf I don't miss anything we don't have playing right now.

 

[goodbyebobby]

Ugly woman for a poor response. Solid.

 

[NevadaHawk]

I greatly miss watching sports. I don't miss sports writers one little bit.

 

[Madman_1]

Hopefully they'll realize their chosen profession isn't really as important as they like to think, and the athletes they cover may want to notice of that fact as well....

Outside of Iowa sports and golf I don't miss anything we don't have playing right now.

I'm similar: between the end of Hawkeye Basketball and the start of Hawkeye Football there are no sports I'm interested in.

 

[Underscore2]

Talk about Caronavirus like it's the bubonic plague....like every over media member.

Or maybe play-by-play of being on ventilator. That better?

 

[goodbyebobby]

Or maybe play-by-play of being on ventilator. That better?

And you know how many people who have this virus?

 

[Kabby]

I'm similar: between the end of Hawkeye Basketball and the start of Hawkeye Football there are no sports I'm interested in.

they can file for unemployment like everyone else

 

[L. Wade Childress]

They will do the same thing they did before, complain about their job.

 

[Printthis86]

Rob Howe cant speak a sentence without a " ahh" or a "umm" so public speaking is not in the cards for him.

 

[stender72865]

I don't know how much ESPN pays Stephen A. Smith, but it is way too damn much.

He is one of those guys who is never wrong, and thinks that talking louder strengthens your argument.

Using a Seinfeld term, "cantstandya"

Whatever ESPN is paying Max Kellerman is too damn little to put up with SAS.

 

[Suterman]

And you know how many people who have this virus?

I actually know 15 people who have this virus. The good news is I don't think any of them are going to die from it. The problem is, how many people did these 15 infect? How many of them are going to die? Of the people that the original 15 infected, how many did they infect? See the problem? Ebola was FAR more deadly than this virus but it wasn't particularly easy to transmit. This virus is wildly easy to transmit and there is no vaccine.

 

[goodbyebobby]

I actually know 15 people who have this virus. The good news is I don't think any of them are going to die from it. The problem is, how many people did these 15 infect? How many of them are going to die? Of the people that the original 15 infected, how many did they infect? See the problem? Ebola was FAR more deadly than this virus but it wasn't particularly easy to transmit. This virus is wildly easy to transmit and there is no vaccine.

I understand perfectly how it works and is transmitted.

 

[win1forthe]

Why all the bitterness toward sports writers?

 

[BBHawk]

I understand perfectly how it works and is transmitted.

Yet you are callous about it. And you are wrong. I hope you don't have too big a price to pay for your willful ignorance.

 

[goodbyebobby]

Yet you are callous about it. And you are wrong. I hope you don't have too big a price to pay for your willful ignorance.

Their jobs aren't that important, neither are the athletes. She's ugly, and large, and I understand how the virus is spread.

Where am I wrong?

 

[Hawkfan_08]

I don't know how much ESPN pays Stephen A. Smith, but it is way too damn much.

He is one of those guys who is never wrong, and thinks that talking louder strengthens your argument.

Using a Seinfeld term, "cantstandya"

Whatever ESPN is paying Max Kellerman is too damn little to put up with SAS.

I agree with you but thats exactly what makes SAS popular. Love him or hate him, people tune in to see what he says.