Major League Soccer, which had started its regular season, and Major League Baseball, which had its spring training interrupted, are looking at truncated schedules. Officials in both leagues said they prefer to play with fans in the seats. Either way, sports leagues and tournaments say they will let the advice of medical experts, not the president, guide their decisions on when to resume play. “I hope so,” Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said Monday when asked about Trump’s “sooner rather than later” forecast. Follow the data, follow the science, let the professional doctors, health care professionals tell you when it’s safe to reopen and that’s when you reopen.”

Source: International New York Times April 06, 2020 22:41 UTC