The sports world offers a reality check on covid-19

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 9 : Washington Nationals summer season follow camp is held in an empty Nationals Stadium in Washington, DC on July 9, 2020 Photograph by John McDonnell/The Washington Submit)

KidsPost sports columnist

July 16 at 6:00 AM

Enjoying sports is nice for youths for a lot of causes. They’re a enjoyable strategy to get train and a nice strategy to make pals and learn to be a good teammate.

Sports are additionally necessary as a result of they’re a reality check: Youngsters might imagine they will be the following LeBron James or Serena Williams, however once they begin competing they normally discover out they’ve a lengthy strategy to go.

That may be a humbling however useful lesson. If you wish to do nicely with any sport, you must work at it. There are not any shortcuts. You may’t simply say you’re terrific; you must show it on the sector, on the court docket and within the sport.

Sports definitely offered a reality check in March when the novel coronavirus started to unfold in the US. When Main League Baseball (MLB), the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (NBA), Nationwide Hockey League (NHL) and school tournaments shut down, many individuals began pondering: “This virus should be actually severe.”

Sadly, sports could also be offering one other reality check for our nation. Lately, a number of main sports have made efforts to restart their video games, however the novel coronavirus has prompted some issues.

FC Dallas celebrates a aim throughout a 2019 sport in Frisco, Texas. The staff dropped out of this summer season’s Main League Soccer match as a result of a number of of its gamers contracted covid-19. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Pictures)

● Two groups — FC Dallas and Nashville SC — dropped out of the Main League Soccer match as a result of a number of of their gamers examined optimistic for the coronavirus.

●The Huge Ten convention introduced that its school soccer groups will play solely 9 video games towards in-conference opponents this fall as an alternative of the complete 12-game schedule. Some folks worry there will likely be no school soccer season in 2020.

●The Ivy League convention introduced that its eight member faculties is not going to play soccer or some other fall sports this 12 months.

● A number of baseball gamers, together with the Washington Nationals’ Ryan Zimmerman, stated they won’t play within the shortened 60-game 2020 MLB season due to issues in regards to the virus.

Washington Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman, proven throughout spring coaching February 19, has introduced that he is not going to play in Main League Baseball’s shortened season due to coronavirus issues. (John McDonnell/The Washington Submit)

● Some MLB practices, together with the Nationals’, had been postponed due to delays in processing the gamers’ checks for the virus.

●Regardless that 24 of the NHL’s 31 groups are in the US, the league introduced it’s going to play its 24-team playoffs in two Canadian cities.

Regardless of a lot of speak by President Trump in regards to the virus “getting beneath management” and the nation being able to open, the US has not contained the novel coronavirus, as current knowledge reveals.

The United States leads the world in confirmed covid-19 deaths, with practically 137,000. The nation additionally has seen a steep rise in new instances, with greater than 50,000 on a number of days previously week.

Information from the sports world is confirming the seriousness of the scenario virtually day-after-day. It’s one other reality check.

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