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Sports cancellations send shocking – but necessary – message to Americans

Mar 12, 2020, 8:15 PM

College and professional sports leagues shutting down across the country in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) sends the biggest message imaginable to fans. Here’s what we should learn from this moment.

Sports cancellations send shocking – but necessary – message to Americans

When the notification came across my phone at 8:31 p.m. on Wednesday night, I looked up to my wife and told her we needed to go to Kroger, and soon.  

The Athletic’s Shams Charania might have beaten ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski by five seconds to the tweet. Maybe vice versa. It doesn’t really matter. Something big was happening. 

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