When the President wants a meeting, you take the meeting. This is, perhaps, especially true when your business has ground to a halt in the middle of a global pandemic.
So Saturday afternoon the leaders of the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, MLS, PGA, LPGA, Breeders’ Cup, UFC and WWE got on a conference call with Donald Trump to discuss the current state of the business of sports in America … of which there isn’t much. Maybe all together, though, someone could figure this out.
Trump was Trump, a source said. Confident and aspirational, although such emotions do little in the face of reality.