(Sports) 2022 predictions

Well, now that I've done what largely is quite unpleasant work, let's see what I believe will happen in sports in 2022:

• There will be no (soccer) World Cup.
• Any Olympics which is held will be dominated by China, with most of the organized world forced out due to COVID.
• The Super Bowl will not take place as scheduled.  My anonymous friend's idea of it being held far later in the year is probably the best guess I have on the subject.
• The NHL will shutter again in early January.  The NHL will not survive the year as you've known it.  A very real possibility that two separate professional hockey leagues may be the end result (one USA, one Canada) cannot be ruled out in the longer term.
• The NBA will come down to the length of time the cities remain stable.  I don't see that lasting long.  I would not put money on the NBA getting much past the scheduled period of their All-Star break.
• There will be no MLB season.  It may be the only thing which keeps Toronto (and any thought of Montreal co-hosting with the Rays) in the league.
• The end of at least one American sports league's season may well come at the point where a match is halted due to violence, on one political side or the other.
• A 2022 NFL season may come down to where we are on COVID (and where we are politically outside of sports) by about August 1.  I would be stunned, frankly, if we get an 18-game season next year, especially if the Super Bowl is postponed as far as I think it might be!
• College sports will finally get the decimation they have long deserved, but not for the reasons we want it to.
• ESPN will cease to exist.  The entire methodology backing it's continued existence will finally fall, as they will lose most college sports to financial, economic, and social realities -- the MLB season to the lockout -- and the NFL goes any which direction.