Well, everybody else (more or less) has done it, so I guess my turn to do a “Meet the Staff” piece has finally arrived. This Slate is coming to you on Best Coast time because I live in Washington State, where the coronavirus began in America and arguably the state showing the most positive progress recently, so that’s something. However, the Washington you’re imagining is probably not the same as the Washington where I live, but we’ll get to that in a moment.

First, let’s go through some sports news.

NCAA

The NCAA actually made a compassionate, reasonable decision on Monday, voting to give all athletes in spring sports an extra year of eligibility for the season that was taken away from them due to COVID-19.