Day 76
- Japan has finally lifted the state of emergency due to the coronavirus.
- The Japanese baseball league, as a result, will return June 19th -- without fans.
- On the flip side of the coin, the Euroleague -- Europe's main professional basketball league -- is done for the season.
- KBO Free Agent Jung-Ho Kang has been suspended 1 full year (from when he signs a contract) for three DUIs. Career probably over.
- Serie A's proposed restart will probably be without one of it's major stars: Zlatan Ibrahimovic has an injured calf in pre-training.
- The May 30th UFC Fight Night has been announced for The Apex, the UFC's home for their own offices and an arena for an opportunity series last summer, where fighters could fight for UFC contracts. This will involve stricter testing, though.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said today that holding the Olympic Games in Tokyo at all will probably require a vaccine... And that should do it. No Tokyo Olympics, it looks like...
- The EPL will be targeting later in the month of June for any potential relaunch.
- However, in a move which might be more in tune with the reality of any relaunch, the Miami Dolphins are actually going to turn their stadium into a 250-car drive-in theater!
- The NBA, more and more, appears to be leaning in the direction (like the NHL, see above) of playoffs only. Damien Lillard has already said that if meaningless games are eventually played, he won't.
- The MLB negotiations, however, are snagging on a proposal that will knock down high-tier salaries far more than lower-tiered players.
Oof. With some of those numbers, it might be seriously time to consider junking the season.
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