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By the beginning of next week at the latest — perhaps even before this week is concluded — MLB is planning to present to the Players Association a proposal that will include what is currently the most optimistic hope: What would a season look like if spring training 2.0 began in June and the regular …

Earlier this week, in a conversation with a veteran player representative, I asked if the Commissioner’s Office and the Players Association would be the scorpion from The Scorpion and the Frog. In the fable, the scorpion convinces a frog to carry him across the river. The frog says no because you will sting me. The …

Two items are becoming more and more probable if there is going to be a major league season this year: 1. It is going to begin without crowds. 2. It is going to begin without a standard minor league feeder system. Central to the agreement that was reached last week between MLB and the Players …

Though news of the coronavirus pandemic has been discouraging, NBA executives still cling to hope of arranging a one-site, fan-less, 16-team playoff and a five-to-seven-game regular-season prelude, according to multiple NBA sources. “They’re very determined to have a champion,” one industry source said. The playoffs could be reduced to a slew of best-of-three series across …

The coronavirus continues to devastate Broadway. Two highly anticipated plays — “Hangmen” and the revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — have been scuttled. Actors are sick, among them much of the cast of “Moulin Rouge!” The day Broadway announced it was closing down, a bunch of top producers and theater executives met at …

When Keith Urban was forced to cancel his Houston show because of the coronavirus, the country singer surprised his fans with a live-streamed concert from his basement. Urban’s wife, Nicole Kidman, joined the crooner and his collaborator, Jeff Linsenmaier, for theshow that was taped in their Nashville home. Kidman, 52, posted a selfie from their …