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The Sports Reporters

The Sports Reporters - Episode 271 - The Model for Restarting Sports... What Does it Look Like?

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6806 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With the country set to slowly "reopen" how will sporting events look and work? With states having differing guidelines; do they all need to played at one site to minimize travel? How will they be covered? Discussing the logistics and options to get sports up and going again. Plus, College sports have been greatly impacted... Could the football season possibly be played next spring to avoid complete loss of revenue for other sports? And is NCAA Basketball loosing it allure? Why are all the top high school prospects choosing alternate leagues (where they can make money) over playing in college?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers.

0:04.9

No topic out of bounds.

0:06.6

No opinions left unsaid.

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An institution for sports talk and information.

0:11.9

This is the sports reporters.

0:14.0

Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.

0:16.4

I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

0:19.2

I'm Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the end of New York Daily News.

0:22.9

And I'm Mitch Album with the Detroit Free Press, and we are the sports reporters,

0:26.7

and we welcome you to this edition of the Sports Reporters podcast,

0:30.0

which, yes, if this is the first time you're listening to it,

0:32.2

it's the same group that used to put on suits and ties on Sunday mornings

0:36.1

and come on ESPN for decades. And now, of course,

0:39.4

nobody's putting on a suit and tie because everybody's at home. But just the same.

0:42.5

Now you tell me. We do this podcast Monday and Thursday. So it's twice as nice. And despite the fact

0:50.7

that there's no actual sports going on, there's certainly a lot of sports

0:54.6

conversation. And we begin today with talk on both coasts, very interesting hearing people

1:02.0

in California, mayors and governors and mayors in New York City talking about the possibility

1:08.4

of resuming sports without fans in the stands. And you had Cuomo

1:14.4

in New York saying, well, it would be good for people. Why not? Let's, you know, if we can do it without

1:18.9

fans, this would be a great idea to lift the spirits. And you had the Los Angeles mayor at Garcetti

1:24.8

saying, I don't see any kind of sporting events, at least with any

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