Covid-19

Basketball
Events

Move shifts much-beloved March Madness to essentially empty venues
Basketball
Governance

Ice Cube's Big3 basketball league has decided to abandon its touring model in large part this year due to the global coronavirus outbreak
Governance

Seattle's professional sports teams have all been forced to make alternative arrangements for their upcoming home games after Washington governor Jay Inslee banned social gatherings of 250 or more people…
Cycling
Events

David Lappartient, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), has said that enforced cancellations of the Giro d’Italia or the Tour de France due to the coronavirus outbreak would be a “disaster” for t…
Events

Haruyuki Takahashi, a member of Tokyo 2020's organising committee's executive board, told the Wall Street Journal that the event would most likely be postponed by one or two years if it could not take…
Events

MotoGP's Grand Prix of the Americas has been put back from April until November after the City of Austin, Texas, declared a state of emergency due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Events

All public gatherings throughout Italy have been halted by the government until April 3 in order to contain the coronavirus epidemic
Governance

The National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, and Major League Soccer have decided to temporarily limit access to locker rooms and clubhouses to all non-essential…
Football
Events

The French government has announced a decree which will ban all public gatherings of over 1,000 people until April 15 in an attempt to contain the coronavirus outbreak in the country
Football
Media

English football’s governing body, the FA, is likely to suspend the country’s Saturday afternoon broadcasting black-out rule in the event the coronavirus crisis forces matches to be played behind closed doo…
Ice Hockey
Events

The coronavirus has claimed two major events in the winter sports sector with the International Ski Federation (FIS) and International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) cancelling their Alpine Ski World Cup…
Events

The Board of Control for Cricket in India could be forced to postpone the start of the Indian Premier League following an advisory by the Indian government that mass gatherings in the country should be…
Football
Attendance

Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders played in front of a significantly reduced crowd at CenturyLink Field over the weekend, in large part because of the coronavirus outbreak in the region.
Finance & Law

Wanda Sports Group, the sports unit of Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda, has warned of the potential for a “material adverse impact” on its business because of the ongoing spread of the coronavirus.
Football
Events

Fifa and the Asian Football Confederation have moved towards postponing upcoming matches in the joint qualifying competition for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 Asian Cup
Motorsport
Host Broadcast & Production

German commercial broadcaster RTL has said it will refrain from on-site reporting of the opening three races of the 2020 Formula 1 season due to risks presented by the coronavirus
Rugby Union
Events

The Six Nations rugby union clash between Italy and England in Rome on March 14 has been postponed until later this year as the country continues to attempt to stem the tide of its coronavirus outbreak
Events

Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund has cancelled plans to tour Asia this summer due to the coronavirus outbreak