Bill Plaschke: Sports world forced to go dark because of the coronavirus
by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
Mar 12, 2020
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Three days ago, Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz playfully ended a news conference by touching every microphone in front of him, as if pretending to spread a fake coronavirus.
On Wednesday night, Gobert was diagnosed with the real coronavirus and the entire NBA was shut down until further notice.
Now it's real. Now it's scary.
Last weekend, USC's Jonah Mathews hit a buzzer-beater to defeat UCLA, then, in a glorious scene, was hugged and grabbed and touched by about half of downtown Los Angeles.
Next week, if Mathews
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