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With most of the country slowly reopening, let’s check in on sports.

An American spring is usually overwhelmed with basketball and hockey playoffs, the Masters, the French Open, MLB’s regular season and NFL minicamps. Instead, since mid-March, we have basically seen 1) a virtual football draft, 2) a rainy round of charity golf and 3) German soccer.

This is not a happy diet for ravenous American sports fans.