Osler's Razor

As things have gotten weird, the absence of sports has gotten to seem normal. No pro baseball. No Masters tournament in golf. No March Madness.

And, in the fall, perhaps no college football-- my favorite spectator sport. According to ESPN, there are four possibilities:

1) A delayed start to the fall season,
2) A shortened season which would all be in-conference (it seems to me like this and number one would likely go together),
3) A spring season, and
4) A regular season with no fans in the stands. Duke has been doing this for years, and it seems to work for them!

There is something bizarre about the fourth option-- college football is all about the crowd and the school, after all. The haunting silence would be disorienting, and I'm not sure it would be much fun.

IPLawGuy and some of his friends in DC have created a league where they are playing the major-league schedule themselves in his backyard. They only have enough players for seven National League teams, so it is a little stilted, but still something. In the opener, the Houston Astros beat the Cubs 47-0 (no one has told them that the Astros moved to the American League, or else they just won't accept it). They are trying to get their games up on YouTube...