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Kovacevic: The coronavirus comeback jolts professional sports … but should it?

Yeah, coronavirus is having quite the comeback, in the context of professional sports.

All in the same Friday ...

Major League Baseball headlines were finally stolen by a foe more formidable than a labor lawyer, with the Phillies' facility in Clearwater, Fla., seeing five players diagnosed, and the Blue Jays, right up the road in Dunedin, having one of their own. By day's end, serious talks were underway to close all spring complexes in both Florida and Arizona, two of the states being hit hardest.

The NHL saw its biggest name yet become public, with the Toronto Sun reporting that the Maple Leafs' Auston Matthews came down with a case while training in his native Arizona.