COVID-19 pandemic one year ago.Despite bubble cities, shortened seasons and the constant testing of athletes for the novel coronavirus, what we have been left with is an industry that is a shell of its former self.Yes, the National Hockey League was able to pull off a successful bubble in Toronto and Edmonton last summer and award the Stanley Cup, and the National Basketball Association pulled off the same feat in their bubble at Disney World, but it just wasn’t the same without a live crowd to cheer and jeer the highs and lows of each game.Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer figured out how to make their shortened seasons work in the face of numerous positive COVID-19 tests at the onset of their respective campaigns, while the.