Today's Sports Headlines

Including: Dave Feschuk: For Toronto’s Kalif Young, the thrill of March Madness has been replaced by an eternal ‘what if?’ [Star Logo] Sports Headlines OPINION [Dave Feschuk: For Toronto’s Kalif Young, the thrill of March Madness has been replaced by an eternal ‘what if?’]( [The Providence College senior’s anticipation of his final NCAA Tournament, at first replaced by anger, has since been inhabited by a deep sadness after the spring showcase was wiped out by the coronavirus, Dave Feschuk writes]( [Read More [arrow]]( OPINION [Gregor Chisholm: Minor-league ballplayers have been cheated far too often. MLB must step up and pay them during the coronavirus crisis]( [Baseball owners can easily afford to continue to pay the minor leaguers, stadium workers and all the other employees associated with the team for as long as this crisis continues. At this point, it almost becomes their civic duty, Gregor Chisholm writes.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [The Raptors’ final coronavirus test also came back negative — everyone’s cleared]( [The Raptors’ travelling group underwent the mandatory tests after Utah’s Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell — whose team had played the Raptors in Salt Lake City on Monday — tested positive for the rampaging virus.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [How do NBA teams get coronavirus testing while other people wait? ‘Super spreaders’ always go first]( [Athletes, team personnel and travelling reporters who are often in direct contact with several other people in packed venues take priority, health officials say.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Child who got Rudy Gobert’s autograph tests positive for coronavirus, report says]( [The elementary school student reportedly attended the Jazz and Celtics game in Boston on March 6, which was five days before Gobert became the first of at least two NBA players to test positive for COVID-19.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Canada’s Olympic champ Erica Wiebe, teammate Danielle Lappage book tickets to Tokyo]( [The Ottawa-area Pan-American Olympic qualifying event was held in an empty venue due to the concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Woodbine racetracks closing to general public for minimum of two weeks due to coronavirus]( [The operator of Woodbine Mohawk Park and Woodbine Racetrack made the decision following the recommendation of Ontario’s chief medical officer to suspend all large events and public gatherings.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Esports leagues are the only game in town after NBA and NHL go dark due to coronavirus]( [Pro competition in video games, which doesn’t require much, if any, social gathering, could help fill the void for sports fans, betting houses and media networks.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Sports cancellations leave vasectomy patients without planned March Madness binge options]( [Urologists have long seen a spike in appointments for the surgery timed to the tournament’s tip off.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [The aftershocks of cancelling March Madness, the NCAA’s billion-dollar lifeblood, will reverberate far beyond sports]( [Officials at U.S. conferences and schools that count on millions flowing from the NCAA are just beginning to discuss the potential impact on their budgets.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [In coronavirus outbreak, the high-five is left hanging]( [Some athletes and coaches have tried to stop high-fiving altogether. Instead, they have been knocking elbows, tapping forearms, clicking cleats and trying almost anything else to avoid the germ-friendly high-fives and handshakes that public-health experts have discouraged.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Pro baseball players organizing ‘Sandlot’-style pickup game]( [After MLB suspended spring training and delayed the start of the regular season, Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer decided to plan a game in Arizona for major and minor leaguers who want to keep competing despite the layoff.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Pistons’ Christian Wood tests positive for virus, source says]( [Christian Wood’s diagnosis was revealed one week after he played against the Utah Jazz — spending much of that night matched up with Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player known to test positive for the virus.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Flames won’t pay event staff during COVID-19 suspension; Oilers offer assistance]( [The Flames sent an email to their hourly and event staff, which said, “effective March 12, 2020, all future games have been suspended and substantially all scheduled hourly shifts have been cancelled.”]( [Read More [arrow]]( [The Star]( If you’re not enjoying these emails, please tell us how we can make them better by emailing newsletterfeedback@thestar.ca. Or, if you’d prefer, you can unsubscribe from this newsletter by clicking the first link below. [Unsubscribe From This Newsletter]( [Manage Your Email Preferences]( [Become a Star Subscriber]( [View in Browser]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. One Yonge Street, 4th Floor, Toronto, ON M5E 1E6. 416-367-2000 [PRIVACY POLICY](