Recent days have seen 49ers players walk and speak out at equal-rights protests, both locally and nationally. Meanwhile, they also continue to train for a 2020 season that sparked these social-media questions for this week’s mailbag:
Do you think fans will be allowed in stadiums? (@urijr49)
I’ve watched Australian rugby-league, Korean baseball and German soccer restart without fans, and it’s palatable, other than fake-crowd noise and cardboard cutouts in seats. NASCAR now takes the U.S. lead, having announced Tuesday it will allow 1,000 “guests” at Sunday’s race in Florida and 5,000 next weekend in Alabama.