In the age of coronavirus, we’re finding out just how much sports matters | Mike Sielski

More than 91,000 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control, have died from the coronavirus, and still we want sports to return. In April, 20.5 million Americans lost their jobs, a record for a single month, and the unemployment rate keeps rocketing higher and higher, and still we want sports to return. We wear our masks. We take our walks. We socially distance. …