Editorial: Shut down sports during COVID-19 pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the lie that professional sports leagues put the health and safety of their players before the teams’ bottom line.It’s the height of irresponsibility for MLB, NBA, WNBA, NHL, NFL, MLS and NWSL teams to resume play while COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise. And that goes double for California colleges and high school programs that are moving forward with plans to play games this fall.The competition endangers the players; accelerates the general spread of the virus; risks the players’ exposing their parents, grandparents and other highly vuln…

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