Tuesday, March 10, 2020

3/10/20 Coronavirus Updates

  • An official of the Tokyo Organizing Committee said that there is consideration that they may try to hold the Olympics in 2021 or 2022 if they cannot hold them as scheduled this July and August.
  • In the first move toward either a no-fans or cancellation of March Madness, the Ivy League has become the first Division I conference to cancel it's conference tournaments, awarding the automatic tournament one-bids to the regular season champions, as it had for many years before starting a tournament a few years ago.  Doing so 3-4 days before the tournaments begin, however, should underscore the very malleable nature of current events.
  • The Mid-American Conference tournaments will be played, no fans.
  • The ACC tournament, however, has it's first round today.
  • New Rochelle, NY has become the first city to be closed due to the virus.  Various reports indicate all schools and businesses in the city shut down for two weeks, and the NATIONAL GUARD will make sure that sticks.  Some of that is in dispute, however.
  • New Japan Pro Wrestling has extended it's cancellations at least another week, and has completely called off it's spring single-elimination New Japan Cup tournament. 
  • Austria, Germany, and Switzerland have called off their hockey leagues for the season.
  • Kentucky's Berea College has cancelled it's entire spring semester. 
  • UPDATE LATE TODAY:  Arsenal vs. Manchester City in the Premier League tomorrow has been postponed and at least one player put in 14-day quarantine for contact with the owner of two other clubs (one lesser-league in England), who has reported infection with the coronavirus.
  • Also in the UK, the Health Minister of the country has contracted the virus. 
  • The MGM Resorts in Las Vegas are closing all buffets as of this Sunday.  The Mandalay Bay is closing three other food outlets as well.

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