The employees are young, healthy and in extraordinarily good shape. There are huge swaths of the country that consider their jobs essential to restoring national spirit. And there are so many rewards for American sports coming back to life that every league is trying desperately to end this shutdown. But the risk is not simply limited to professional athletes—and that’s one of the many problems that sports officials are trying to solve in the greatest crisis of their lives.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 05, 2020 13:07 UTC