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LOVERRO: Welcome to sports Darwinism, where only rich survive

Nobody really knows what the world will look like when we believe it is safe to live without fear of the deadly coronavirus. We can reasonably conclude that not everything will simply pick up where it left off before we hid in our homes.

There has been loss of lives, loss of jobs, loss of security and loss of joy. The kind of joy that helps make life bearable at times — the world of sports, shut down in our attempt to fight the virus with social distancing and isolation.

There will be no record of NCAA playoffs for 2020, no record of spring sports in colleges and high schools across the country.