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NHL suspending play immediately due to virus

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Also, the NBA (https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28887560/nba-suspends-se...) and NCAA Power 5 (https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/2889...) have suspended or cancelled play, and MLB is likely to follow shortly (https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28892315/sources-mlb-exp...).

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I belive MLB already announced they're stopping.

Well I guess they haven't announced it.

Smaller than the other leagues, but MLS has announced they are suspending as well (https://twitter.com/MLS/status/1238128176502628353)

Even smaller, NLL shutting down. https://www.nll.com/news/nll-statement-on-game-play-march-12...

La Liga, The Champions and some other European soccer leagues have been suspended as well.

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/newsid=2640915.html

https://www.laliga.com/noticias/laliga-acuerda-la-suspension...

https://eredivisie.nl/en-us/highlighted/eredivisie-matches-s...

F1 likely as well:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/51849163

This is still rumours as far as I have seen, no official anouncement from the governing body (FIA) as of yet. It is also very early in the morning in Australia (where F1 is for the race this weekend), however, and an anouncement may come out soon. Free practice will start at 9:00pm EST today, so maybe something will happen before then.

McClaren F1 have withdrawn from the GP if it should procede [0], on their own accord.

[0] https://www.racefans.net/2020/03/12/mclaren-pulls-out-of-aus...

It's great to cancel the in-person fan experience, but it's bad that they're cancelling the games. The more things we have to keep people at home watching TV, the better.

In fact I think emergency 'friendly' off-season college football and NFL scrimmages should be organized. (Other off-season sports too.) The increased spread caused by a few healthy young people getting the virus from each other would be more than outweighed by keeping sports fans at home.

The thinking might be to avoid people watching games in sports bars and similarly crowded places.

Yeah, it would need to be combined with a (long overdue) closing of all bars.

Supposedly the plan in the UK (not for the NHL, other sports) is to ban pubs from showing them, but play behind closed doors and dish out 'free' streaming to ticket holders, so they can watch at home even if they don't usually have access.

Seems the best overall to me. Combined with testing all players maybe.

Also large chunks of or entire teams might get quarantined if they are all practicing together.

And to avoid contact between players.

They all have loved ones that are older or have respiratory conditions I'm sure.

True. Public health emergencies are about making hard choices.

Well, we did almost have a worst case scenario pan out with the Jazz game.

Rudy Gobert was about to play, but the game was halted when he tested positive. I'm sure none of these leagues want that to pan out.

My understanding is that Rudy Gobert (who felt he was well enough to play) was in the team hotel, not at the arena.

In any case, that's moot, as Donovan Mitchell, who also tested positive, was at the arena and ready to play.

He didn't play Wednesday but did mockingly touch all of the mics Monday in his media session: https://mobile.twitter.com/Davefox2/status/12379063821934387... so could've been worse but could've been better too

The players are still in danger if they play.

The MLB also announced that they are suspending operations: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cb-coronavirus...

Twitch’s & Netflix’s numbers has to be over the roof with all the people “working” from home and all major events being canceled/postponed.

It would be nice if UberEats stock was seperate from the main ridesharing service. I'd guess that food delivery will skyrocket through "self-isolation", but obviously ridesharing is will plummet.

Can you buy ubereats specific derivatives?

I was going to list off a bunch of alternatives, but I didn't realize that UberEats is second only to Doordash in terms of market share. Never considered UE a big player in the space especially considering how late they were.

I recently moved from Texas to the Bay and I was shocked to see how popular Door Dash is. Everybody I knew used Uber Eats!

You should be shorting Uber for when they get shutdown because they can't control their contractors that get coronavirus.

And Major League Baseball. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/mlb-to-suspend-all-operation...

We should just assume everything is cancelled

Come to italy - it is.

No thanks!

The President still hasn't declared a national state of emergency, and this looks increasingly out of touch from reality. It needs to happen yesterday. This would free up FEMA funds to help Seattle and subsequent outbreak sites. He recently called the governor a "snake" so one hopes this is not being done for personal reasons.

edit: this article summarizes it better than I was able to https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/covid-19-emergency-d...

Well the President thinks it will go away when it's warm out. He is trying to play to stock market fears and is failing all of the citizens.

The markets don’t seem to impressed with his response, either. We’re about a day away from every penny of SPY growth since the day he took office being erased.

Maybe I'm wrong but state of emergency is usually declared by the states, not the President.

Please check out the article I linked to. It goes through the legal background and the federal impact of declaring one.

For a sport (that I love) that has a history of doing the wrong thing. I think they've finally been getting it right.

I suspect we will see a surge in food delivery business. Most people still don't like to cook.

I'm in the italian lockdown: nobody will cook my food for me (my decision)… and nobody will deliver it (theirs, and the laws'). Additionally, all bars, cafes, restaurants etc are closed.

I'm just guessing for the U.S., but we could get that bad here.

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