It was dizzying. It was surreal. It was unfathomable.
In the span of 24 hours — a day no one will ever forget, one of those landmark moments forever etched in the psyche — the sports world slowly but inexorably went dark.
It essentially put itself in quarantine, shutting down indefinitely at all levels. Starting Wednesday and stretching into Thursday, league after league, organization after organization, came to the unavoidable conclusion that the continued staging of sports events would be an irresponsible health risk in the wake of what is now officially termed a pandemic.