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Those were the good ole days for ESPN.   Aussie Rules Football, mud pit races, and countless other sports with low cost broadcasting rights.
ESPN absolutely needs content because this HORSE and virtual racing stuff is not going to be enough to justify their carriage fees.  I don't think Korea and Taiwan baseball will get the desired ratings, but once the NFL draft is complete ESPN will lose one of their biggest daily topics.

In the baby steps back to normal I would expect golf to be first big time sport for the USA.   The lack of a crowd will not be a big issue for the TV audience and the competitors do not need to be close to each other.   Even if a player or two gets COVID-19, the show could easily go on as no one player is required for the event to start on a Thursday or continue to Sunday.

Tennis is better with an audience, but it should be possible for tennis to start early too.   There would be a risk for a few COVID19 walkovers each tournament, but that should not be a major issue since walkovers happen at every tournament. 

Golf.
Tennis.
Baseball.  (I don't see much transmission risk from the game itself - the logistics of getting half the teams in one locale and the other half in another; and supported by essential personnel for housing and meals; is far more risky (but not out of the realm of possibility).

If I had to bet, I'd agree that fall sports unlikely.  But there is something incongruous about a policy of "we're willing to send kids back to schools for regular classes - even with seating distancing - and living," but no sports competition allowed.  Is volleyball really a high-risk transmission sport?  [Interestingly, it's the revenue sports that strike me as highest risk . . . but until there is a vaccine there will always be risk.  Are you going to suspend those sports until there is a vaccine?  If so . . . all college sports at risk].

I also think CA and Alabama may have very different approaches.  And if the feds get involved in laws/rules, we might have some good old fashioned Commerce Clause/Supremacy Clause disputes decided on the fast track.

[teejers1]

Those were the good ole days for ESPN.   Aussie Rules Football, mud pit races, and countless other sports with low cost broadcasting rights.
ESPN absolutely needs content because this HORSE and virtual racing stuff is not going to be enough to justify their carriage fees.  I don't think Korea and Taiwan baseball will get the desired ratings, but once the NFL draft is complete ESPN will lose one of their biggest daily topics.

In the baby steps back to normal I would expect golf to be first big time sport for the USA.   The lack of a crowd will not be a big issue for the TV audience and the competitors do not need to be close to each other.   Even if a player or two gets COVID-19, the show could easily go on as no one player is required for the event to start on a Thursday or continue to Sunday.

Tennis is better with an audience, but it should be possible for tennis to start early too.   There would be a risk for a few COVID19 walkovers each tournament, but that should not be a major issue since walkovers happen at every tournament. 

Golf.
Tennis.
Baseball.  (I don't see much transmission risk from the game itself - the logistics of getting half the teams in one locale and the other half in another; and supported by essential personnel for housing and meals; is far more risky (but not out of the realm of possibility).

If I had to bet, I'd agree that fall sports unlikely.  But there is something incongruous about a policy of "we're willing to send kids back to schools for regular classes - even with seating distancing - and living," but no sports competition allowed.  Is volleyball really a high-risk transmission sport?  [Interestingly, it's the revenue sports that strike me as highest risk . . . but until there is a vaccine there will always be risk.  Are you going to suspend those sports until there is a vaccine?  If so . . . all college sports at risk].

I also think CA and Alabama may have very different approaches.  And if the feds get involved in laws/rules, we might have some good old fashioned Commerce Clause/Supremacy Clause disputes decided on the fast track.