"Sports, our great escape, has become our sobering reality. With its absence, sports is telling us that something is very wrong and it's time to take it seriously. Hopefully, as sports goes, so goes the nation."

USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan, writing last week after several sports organizations suspended – or, in the case of the NCAA, canceled – upcoming games, as reported here, “Shuttering sports shows us how the coronavirus crisis should be handled.”