FAYETTEVILLE — The Ides of March was to be a glorious day on the 2020 sports calendar. Selection Sunday was set for the hugely popular NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
The tournament is canceled along with virtually every other event in all of sports for at least a few weeks due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus.
Instead of March 15 being a beacon of opportunity and hope springing eternal, it is a gaping void for the millions of sports junkies across the nation and the globe.
In the classic five stages of grief, our athletes and sports administrators and even the sports media seem to be somewhere between denial and anger, the first two steps in the process.