Predictions 2023, Part 3A: Collapse, and my misses from last year...

I did make some sports predictions too:

• No soccer World Cup.  Miss.  Partially due to the rise of Saudi blood money in sports, and partially due to throwing in the towel on COVID.
• Any Olympics held would be dominated by China, and most of the rest of the world would walk out due to COVID.  Another clean miss, partially due to throwing in the towel on COVID.  That said, those Games had problems they're still trying to sort out.
• Super Bowl would not take place as scheduled.  I do think, again, that we've given up on COVID.  If you followed along when I made these predictions, the entire NFL was in a mess and a bind I didn't think they'd get out of.
• NHL shutters again in early January and does not make it out of that stoppage as known.  Nope.  Sensing a common theme here?  Remember:  The NHL actually pulled it's players from the Olympics and used this Christmas holiday last year as a COVID stoppage.
• The NBA won't make it long past the All-Star Break.  The cities have done better than I expected, and, hence, the only real uprisings were the Golden State Warriors fans telling Charles Barkley how much he sucked.
• No MLB season.  Again, remember where we were vis-a-vis COVID 12 months ago:  The NHL suspended play again, the NFL was all over the map...
• Political violence in a match halts a season.  Probably more not due to cowardice on the Right than anything.  It's not like the table wasn't set for it.
• 2022 NFL is determined by where we are vis-a-vis COVID.  I'd say that might be the one hit:  Because they threw in the towel on it.
• College sports finally get decimated.  Not YET, but I think the NIL situation might make that a hit 2-4 years down the road.
• ESPN will cease to exist.  Nope, meaning I only hit one.  Scott van Pelt had it right when COVID started -- he had real doubts, and said on-air, of the future of ESPN as it was known.