The world of sports loves a comeback story. And now, every big-time sport you can think of is preparing to engineer its own resurrection.
The question is: How? When an infectious virus lurks almost everywhere, requiring all of us to keep our distance, how can activities that necessitate close contact — like most sports — be brought back safely and in the near future?
Well, for most of us, they can’t be brought back yet. But big-time professional sports is different — bigger, wealthier and even in a pandemic, bold enough to take on COVID-19.
The plan is not so different from what each of us is doing in our own homes, only on a massive scale: create a safe and exclusive place for those on the inside and limit contact with those on the