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    Sports Leagues Shutter Their Seasons – And Leave Fans Wondering What To Do Now

    What had seemed unimaginable just days earlier is suddenly the new reality: Sports in America are on hold.
    by Laurel Wamsley Mar 13, 2020 3 minutes
    A box office is closed at the Chase Center in San Francisco, where the Golden State Warriors were to play the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday. The NBA season has been suspended due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

    A spring without baseball? Saturdays without soccer? March without Madness? Such is the uncharted world of sports in the age of coronavirus.

    What had seemed unimaginable just days earlier is suddenly the new reality: Sports in America have shuttered.

    It started with the NBA. A Wednesday night game between the Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder was called off moments before tip-off as word came in that Jazz player Rudy Gobert had tested positive for COVID-19. By the end of the night, the NBA had its season

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