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Chasing Life

Sports on the Sidelines

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The NFL Draft kicks off tonight, virtually. But will the season start with or without spectators? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the significance of the suspension of most sports due to Covid-19 and the proposed strategies for returning to play. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Stay at home, watch TV shows, watch old NBA games.

0:06.7

I've been watching NBA TV, the old classic games, and also, you know, binge it out on all

0:12.9

my TV shows that I like as well.

0:15.5

You were a lot of those NBA classic games, by the way, Magic as well.

0:18.9

So you're seeing yourself a lot, I imagine.

0:21.1

That was me speaking with Magic Johnson at a CNN town hall.

0:25.3

For the first time in modern history, we're living in a country without sports.

0:31.0

No season openers, no championships, no fans and stadiums.

0:36.3

Sports reporters like rugby commentator Nick Heath have had to get creative.

0:41.1

In the meantime, you join me live for sunny, toot-ing common as Michael Connell looks to put in

0:45.1

another impressive showing here in the Daily Dodge.

0:48.3

Classic approach to leave the house in Jim Kit looking like he's exercising, but he's

0:52.1

not fooling wife Jebbro when he comes back having not broken a sweat.

0:56.0

After the NBA suspended its season, most major sports organizations in the US followed

1:01.4

suit.

1:02.8

And it's not just athletes and team employees left to wonder what's next.

1:07.3

It's also meant unemployment for thousands of arena workers and businesses that support

1:12.0

the nation sports teams and events.

1:14.8

In a way, sports, or the lack of them, serve as a litmus test for how serious this pandemic

1:21.5

is.

1:22.5

Serious enough that President Trump has included commissioners from all the major US sports

1:28.0

leagues on an advisory board to reopen the country.

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