SportsBeat KC: No shining moment makes it a day in U.S. sports like no other
A headline in The Kansas City Star in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists attacks read: Sports, ppd.
As NFL, college football and baseball games were being called off, the sports world came to a halt. So it is today because of COVID-19 coronavirus. NCAA championships — including men’s and women’s basketball, the spring College World Series — have been canceled. It’s a remarkable moment in American sports, and we talk about it on this SportsBeat KC podcast.
Well, most of it. When Star columnists Sam Mellinger and Vahe Gregorian taped their segment, we knew the major college tournaments were canceled and speculated that would happen to the NCAA. But that officially did not happen until after the taping.
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No March Madness: NCAA cancels all winter and spring championships
Big 12 basketball tournaments are canceled before Thursday’s games in Kansas City
MLB suspends spring training, start of Royals season delayed at least two weeks
KU athletic events “suspended indefinitely” because of coronavirus outbreak, AD says