The Sports Reporters - Episode 290 - Covid-19's Impact on Sports Continues

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A compelling end to the PGA event gave us hope for what sports could look like in this coronavirus day and age... but then you see positive tests all around the country at MLB camps and college campuses... Will these "bubble" ideas really work? What would a "start" and "stop" to a season do to our collective psyche? Plus, what do we make of Dak Prescott's plans to sign his franchise tag?

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0:00.0	award winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left
0:07.7	unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mike
0:14.4	lupica mitch alb and bob ryan i'm bob ryan of the boston globe and espm i'm mitch alb of the detroit
0:20.7	free press i'm mike lupeg m lb dot com in new york daily news welcome to the monday at I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:21.5	I'm Mike Lupig, MLB.com, and New York Daily News.
0:24.1	Welcome to the Monday edition of the Sports Reporters podcast.
0:27.9	And there's much to talk about in a subject that we have been talking about for months.
0:32.6	And that's the coronavirus and its impact on sports, even though it's not impacting golf too much because they had
0:38.8	an unbelievable event at Hilton. And yesterday, even though one of theirs, Nick Watney,
0:44.2	tested positive over the weekend after being in contact with other golfers. And guys, I was on
0:51.6	the NBC Nightly News last night and I said this all of a sudden, even though we're still in the first wave.
0:57.5	And people are talking about the second wave.
0:59.7	The middle of June is starting to feel like the middle of March all over again.
1:03.7	And I'll start with tennis, a sport that I love.
1:07.4	And we talked about this last week.
1:09.2	I don't know what the hell Novak Djokovic was thinking
1:12.5	about and what his government in Serbia was thinking about that it was okay to put 20,000 people
1:19.4	in a tennis stadium and then have all this contact with the players in the first of these two
1:24.7	exhibition tournaments. And my son, son Zach who works at the tennis
1:28.7	channel showed me the footage last night of of Zaveras and Jokovitch and Gregor Dmitrov
1:34.7	dancing shirtless and what looks like a crowded nightclub now Dmitrov has tested
1:40.9	positive born a church who he played this weekend has tested positive um J to church, who he played this weekend, has tested positive.
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