Sports are beginning to make a return to playing since everything was shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic with the MLB and NBA set to make their return late July.
Both of those leagues will be played without fans in attendance but last week, Churchill Downs announced that they would be having fans in attendance for the Kentucky Derby that is scheduled to happen on September 5th. That is the first major sporting event to announce that fans will be in attendance since the outbreak started.
Kentucky Sports Radio noted that Monday morning during cheerleading head coach Ryan Martin O’Connor’s introductory press conference on Zoom, UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart talked about the possibility of fans being in attendance for the season opener for Kentucky football which takes place two days before the Derby.