The only major sport that is still going. I'm grateful to them that they give us guys something to watch on a Saturday. (ESPN if you are interested)

Sports has always been a fantastic outlet from the troubles of the real world and it's just plain odd not having any to watch.

Hell, I'd watch a corn hole match at this point for entertainment.

I would guess UFC will start canceling after this one. I thought I saw Nevada suspended all combat sports earlier today.

UFC will be an interesting case study because it has a lot of flexibility and can be fought damn near anywhere in the world. They need to have smart folks making those decisions, especially on the medical side, but we will see what they've got in the next month or so and how it impacts the sport moving forward.

jjones99 said:

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I would guess UFC will start canceling after this one. I thought I saw Nevada suspended all combat sports earlier today.

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I think they will keep going.

Are there spectators or is it empty?

Was in Brazil. No spectators.

But was live.

If you have ESPN+, Ally Watt will be playing in the W-league (Australian women's professional league) semi-final soccer match at 9:25pm CT.

It and the Mexican league are the last of the non-UFC sports I've seen still going on.

Thank God for Ufc!!

Never watched a ton of UFC, but it's the only thing that I've had on this evening... Live competition is better than reruns.

I'm reminded of how big of a deal it was when sports returned following 9/11 and the gravity of the moment when President Bush threw out the first pitch at the World Series game in New York.

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Normalcy. After 9/11, he urged people to go shopping, to go to Disney World, to play baseball. "I made the case that, if you really wanted to send a message to the terrorists, get back to normal life and we'll do the best we can to protect you," he said. "And so going to a baseball game was kind of symbolic of getting back to normal life."

But of course normal life was changing. There were signs of it everywhere, not just in the wreckage of downtown New York and in a scorched field in rural Pennsylvania and in the broken walls of the Pentagon. There were machine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs and reports of suspicious activity in small towns. Normal was guarded by metal detectors now. You could see the new reality right there, at Yankee Stadium, in the security screening of ticket holders, a process so extensive that hundreds still waited in lines outside the stadium as the game began. You could see it, too, though you wouldn't know it, on the field, where one of the umpires was a Secret Service agent in disguise. And you could feel it. The mood of the country was still fearful. Anthrax attacks, now largely forgotten, were killing people. There was intelligence chatter about more and worse terror. The country was on high alert.

"The goal was to protect us. I also knew that the country, in some ways, would feed off how the commander in chief accomplished the goal," Bush said. "When I said this is what we're going to do, they needed to know I meant it. And those who were put in harm's way needed to know I meant it, and the enemy needed to know I meant it. There was no waffling, you know?"

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https://grantland.com/features/the-pitch/