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‘No pandemic playbook’: Sports grapples with how to return

The Oakland Raiders’ first game following the Sept. 11 terror attacks was in Miami, two weeks after the Twin Towers collapsed. Greg Papa, the voice of the Raiders, remembers boarding his flight, sleeping in a hotel and heading to the stadium — all without hesitation, as he had done so many times before.

“If there was going to be another terrorist attack, I wasn’t worried,’’ Papa said. “I figured, if they bomb the stadium, I die. I’m not harming someone else. I was never fearful.

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