When Are Sports Coming Back From the Coronavirus Pandemic?

April 25, 2020April 25, 2020 0 Comments Sports

Nearly each sporting occasion, main and minor, has been canceled, moved or postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The query now, to which nobody actually is aware of the reply, is when video games will come again.

Here’s a take a look at the place issues stand with a lot of the prime sports activities (final up to date on Saturday, April 25).

Some extra specifics:

Olympics

The Summer Games were postponed for a year, until July 23, 2021. The Paralympics were also delayed, to Aug. 24, 2021.

The league said it had considered a plan to start the season in May with all teams playing in Arizona, among other ideas.

Football

The N.F.L. has benefited from the calendar. With the first regular-season game scheduled for Sept. 10, hopes are high that the season can still be held.

The league’s draft, next Thursday to Saturday, will be a TV event with no spectators.

The Canadian Football League postponed its season from its scheduled June 11 start.

Basketball

The N.B.A. suspended its season on March 11 with teams having played between 63 and 67 games of the 82-game season. There is no date set for a resumption.

The W.N.B.A. season, scheduled to start on May 15, was also postponed.

N.C.A.A.

The N.C.A.A. halted its sports on March 12, meaning winter sports did not finish and spring sports barely got started.

This included the men’s and women’s Division I basketball tournaments, which are the biggest source of income for the organization.

College football is still scheduled for the fall.

Club Soccer

Major League Soccer halted its season on March 12 after each team had played two games. The league said it is “extremely unlikely” it will be back in mid-May, as planned.

The German Bundesliga was on track to be the first major league to return. Players in the top two divisions returned to practice and the league’s chief executive said he hoped to be playing by sometime in May.

The National Women’s Soccer League postponed the start of its regular season, which was originally scheduled to begin on April 18.

International Soccer

The major event of the summer, Euro 2020, scheduled at multiple sites beginning in June, was postponed by a year. As a result, the women’s event, set for England in 2021, was pushed to 2022.

The men’s World Cup is to be played next in 2022. Qualifying events in some parts of the world have already been postponed.

Hockey

The N.H.L. suspended its season on March 12 with each team having played about 70 games of the 82-game regular season. The league’s draft, which had been scheduled for June 26 and 27 in Montreal, was postponed, along with the draft scouting combine and draft lottery.

The world championship, scheduled for May in Switzerland, was canceled.

Tennis

The French Open was moved from its usual May date to Sept. 20. Wimbledon, scheduled to start in late June, was canceled for the first time since World War II. The United States Open, scheduled for Aug. 31 to Sept. 13, was still on, although organizers said they were considering all options.

Golf

The PGA Tour halted its events after the first round of the Player’s Championship on March 12. The British Open in July was canceled, and the other three majors were rescheduled: The P.G.A. Championship will begin on Aug. 6, the United States Open on Sept. 17 and the Masters on Nov. 12. The PGA Tour said it planned to return June 11 with a tournament in Texas.

The L.P.G.A., which had planned several early tournaments in Asia, where the pandemic began, canceled its events beginning in February.

The Ryder Cup is still set for September in Wisconsin. A few minor league tours in the United States were proceeding.

Auto Racing

NASCAR held its last race on March 8. The IndyCar series did not start at all, and the Indianapolis 500 has been moved from its traditional Memorial Day weekend date to August. The Formula One season also did not start, and races have been postponed or canceled on a rolling basis.

U.F.C.

The U.F.C. is planning events for May 9, 13 and 16 at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla.

Dana White, the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has said that he hoped to lead mixed martial arts to be one of the first sports back from the hiatus, adding that some future bouts might take place on an unidentified private island.

After canceling three cards, the U.F.C. pushed to have a card of 12 fights on April 18, shifting its U.F.C. 249 event from Brooklyn to a tribal casino near Fresno, Calif. But its bouts were postponed after objections from elected officials and a request from its broadcast partner, ESPN, and ESPN’s parent company, Disney.