How Important Is It for Sports to Return?

I think it is possible to both understand the gravity of the current crisis we are facing in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and miss sports.

Or as my friend Ryan Ruocco, play-by-play announcer for ESPN and the YES Network put it, "For all of us we understand the bigger picture here. But that doesn't mean you can't care about the things within the littler picture. We only care about sports within the context of understanding there is a much bigger foe to handle right now and that's obviously this virus that threatens lives."

Clearly sports matter not at all when it comes to public safety. No one should argue otherwise. However, there is the notion of an escape, distraction, or something…