Op-Ed: Sports can be our national healer after the coronavirus pandemic ends (via latimesopinion)
Ignore the leagues, mute the coaches, and listen to the science regarding COVID-19. It might be time to bench the sports world until 2021, Bill Plaschke writes.
Fans grieving the absence of sports, those who desperately missed March Madness or yearn for baseball’s opening day, are starving for games to return. When they do, sports will once again play the role of national healer. Casino dealers, Uber drivers, bartenders, among many others, said they strongly believed that sports medicine arrived exactly when it was needed most.
New York City’s 9/11 Museum staged an exhibit last year that centered on the vital role spectator sports played in reuniting a terrified nation. Called “The Comeback Season: Sport After 9/11,” it also documented the similar role sports has played after many other tragedies. Exhibit curator Hicks Wogan, originally from New Orleans, said, “I still remember how sports helped after Hurricane Katrina. … We saw it after the Boston Marathon bombing and the terrorist attacks in Paris.
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