In normal times, Thursday would have kicked off one of the busiest sports stretches of the year in the United States.
Hundreds of thousands of fans would have packed into arenas around the country for the first and second rounds of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments in the next few days.
Another 100,000 or so might have been inside U.S. Bank Stadium for three days of the NCAA Division I wrestling championships. Combined with fans at NHL and NBA arenas, MLS fields and MLB spring training sites, total attendance easily would have topped 1 million in only a few days’ time.