Reflecting on the day sports stopped

Officials, fans, media members, and security are all seen wearing masks in this photo, the new necessity to continue playing sports in the era of Covid-19. // Photo courtesy of GT AthleticsIt’s mid-March 2020, and everything is stopping. Students are heading home for what at first was supposed to be an extended spring break, but soon became much more. Stay-at-home orders and mask mandates rolled out, and the world changed heavily from that point onward.

As the virus spread around the world and things began to shut down, the sports world was still in full swing. Just as fast as everything else changed though, we went from having games from several different sports on any given night to…