The Wall Street Journal - 12.03.2020

A14| Thursday, March 12, 2020 ***** THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

WOW MOM!| By Julie Bérubé

Across

1 Pitch

5 On the level

10 It may be stolen

while thousands

look on

14 “Once more

___ the breach,

dear friends”

15 Stepping-

forward words

16 First second

son

17 Site of

European

capital

capitalism?

19 Sushi wrapper

20 Like more

than half of

humanity

21 “___ need to

paint you a

picture?”

22 35-Down, for

example

23 Macho royal?

27 Gas giant

29 Yoko’s son

30 Et ___

31 Top bond rating

33 Upholstery

fasteners

37 Budget rental

38 Mole with a

mane?

41 Course concern

42 WASP piece

44 Kitchen gadget

brand

45 Lesley who had

a hit with “It’s

My Party”

46 Mountain road

abbr.

49 Starts slowly

51 Heavily

defended source

of gold?

55 Sacred wader

56 401(k)

alternative

57 Jones with nine

Grammys

60 “Cryptonomicon”

author

Stephenson

61 Sorcerer who’s

not late?

64 Sparkling Italian

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successor

66 Decorator in

the kitchen

67 Spring

68 Anchor settings

69 Hand over

Down

1 Low brass

2 Two make two

3 Taking off

4 Sunny rooms

5 Designer Maya

6 Barrel material

7 Sylvan clearing

8 Dome-shaped

domiciles

9 “Fiddler on the

Roof” song

10 Colorful kerchief

11 Buzzing with

excitement

12 Start a set

13 Orioles GM Mike

18 Still fighting

24 Spring’s

counterpart

25 Supercomputer

name

26 Buddy

27 Breakfast brew

28 ___ Bator

32 Opposite of

“odio”

34 It’s decided by a

few votes

35 First name in

sopranos

36 Spotted

38 Recital pieces

39 Cut drastically

40 Drift

43 Carelessly

disclose

45 Like some

sequences

47 Used H&R Block,

perhaps

48 Full of

testosterone

50 Name names

51 Deciding game

52 More than large

53 Rodeo rope

54 Soffit spot

58 Improved by time

59 Attendance

indication

62 Squid squirt

63 “Hip Hop Is Dead”

rapper

Weather
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.

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Anchorage 18 7 s 23 11 pc
Atlanta 74 60 sh 68 55 sh
Austin 82 64 c 79 67 c
Baltimore 58 50 c 74 39 sh
Boise 53 30 pc 59 40 s
Boston 46 40 c 60 39 r
Burlington 48 40 pc 52 33 r
Charlotte 74 62 c 74 48 sh
Chicago 62 34 sh 50 32 s
Cleveland 61 44 pc 48 33 s
Dallas 87 62 t 66 60 t
Denver 5229pc 4027r
Detroit 55 37 pc 47 31 s
Honolulu 83 67 r 80 68 sh
Houston 82 65 c 81 66 sh
Indianapolis 64 37 r 50 34 pc
Kansas City 68 34 sh 53 33 pc
Las Vegas 71 55 sh 62 52 sh
Little Rock 77 53 t 57 45 t
Los Angeles 68 56 sh 61 54 sh
Miami 83 69 s 84 71 pc
Milwaukee 57 34 r 47 30 s
Minneapolis 46 27 pc 38 22 s
Nashville 73 54 c 60 43 pc
New Orleans 82 65 c 81 65 sh
New York City 50 46 c 67 41 r
Oklahoma City 79 46 pc 52 43 r

Omaha 57 28 pc 50 30 pc

Orlando 85 61 pc 87 61 s

Philadelphia 56 49 c 70 41 pc

Phoenix 71 57 r 68 52 sh

Pittsburgh 64 51 sh 53 30 sh

Portland, Maine 44 36 pc 50 37 r

Portland, Ore. 55 35 pc 46 35 r

Sacramento 76 44 s 72 44 s

St. Louis 67 38 r 55 39 pc

Salt Lake City 57 34 s 53 45 s

San Francisco 67 50 s 63 51 s

Santa Fe 64 37 c 56 31 r

Seattle 50 37 pc 42 35 r

Sioux Falls 47 26 pc 46 26 s

Wash., D.C. 65 55 c 75 42 pc

Amsterdam 49 43 pc 49 35 sh

Athens 67 52 s 72 52 s

Baghdad 87 65 c 84 63 c

Bangkok 97 81 c 99 82 pc

Beijing 58 31 pc 53 34 s

Berlin 53 37 sh 46 31 pc

Brussels 51 39 pc 48 37 pc

Buenos Aires 81 75 pc 87 74 pc

Dubai 81 65 c 85 70 pc

Dublin 47 37 c 48 40 sh

Edinburgh 46 32 pc 44 34 pc

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Havana 85 65 pc 88 67 s

Hong Kong 79 71 sh 80 64 pc

Istanbul 63 46 s 63 45 s

Jakarta 88 78 t 90 77 t

Jerusalem 75 52 pc 56 49 t

Johannesburg 80 60 s 79 59 pc

London 50 42 pc 52 42 pc

Madrid 79 53 pc 73 47 t

Manila 93 77 s 95 77 pc

Melbourne 83 66 pc 79 52 t

Mexico City 82 56 pc 82 55 pc

Milan 62 49 pc 67 46 pc

Moscow 45 36 r 43 35 c

Mumbai 84 70 pc 85 71 pc

Paris 54 40 pc 54 40 pc

Rio de Janeiro 83 72 s 83 73 pc

Riyadh 85 58 pc 86 65 pc

Rome 63 51 s 63 49 pc

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Toronto 46 41 c 46 30 pc

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SPORTS

leaguewide action, the Golden State

Warriors had banned fans at their

Thursday game in San Francisco and

became the first major American pro-

fessional team to follow the lead of

Asian and European leagues. Less than

an hour later, Ohio’s governor said he

would order an end to mass gather-

ings in the state, home to NBA, NHL

and MLB teams. As Ohio acted, Wash-

ington Gov. Jay Inslee prohibited gath-

erings of more than 250 people in the

Seattle area, and the Mariners said

they were working with MLB on “al-

ternative plans” rather than playing

their home games at the center of the

largest U.S. outbreak.

And one day after canceling its

postseason men’s and women’s bas-

ketball tournaments, the Ivy League

presidents ended spring sports for the

duration of the academic year.

The moves came after the new

edicts from local officials and blunt

comments by Anthony Fauci, the di-

rector of the National Institute of Al-

lergy and Infectious Diseases, immedi-

ately forced the hands of the U.S.

sports leagues and governing bodies

that have spent the last week prepar-

ing for the possibility of playing in

front of empty stadiums. The moves

came on the same day that the World

Health Organization declared a global

pandemic.

“We would recommend that there

not be large crowds,” said Fauci, who

has served six U.S. presidents in pub-

lic-health roles. “If that means not

having any people in the audience

when the NBA plays, so be it. But as a

public-health official, anything that

has large crowds is something that

would give a risk to spread.”

The incident in Oklahoma City

ended the day on a surreal note. Sec-

onds before tipoff, a Thunder official

ran onto the court and huddled with

the referees. Players, coaches and offi-

cials returned to the locker room. It

was announced 30 minutes later that

the game would not be played as

scheduled. “This seems more like out

of a movie than reality,” Dallas Maver-

icks owner Mark Cuban said on ESPN.

“This is much bigger than the NBA.”

The virus is spreading around the

U.S. at one of the busiest times of

American sports—an industry built on

live entertainment and large crowds

that make it unusually susceptible to

a disease that interrupts everyday life

around the world. There are NBA, NHL

and MLS games every night. This is

the week for conference tournaments

in college basketball, and the NCAA

tournament begins next week. Major

League Baseball’s opening day is two

weeks away.

But even as the virus infected Asia

and Europe, where the unrealistic be-

came reality, American leagues ap-

peared resistant to the prospect of

playing behind closed doors. That

changed on Wednesday.

Warriors president Rick Welts said

that he met with San Francisco mayor

London Breed before the team made

its call and described the team’s situa-

tion as “the first domino to fall.”

“I think there is a lot of speculation

that other cities will look at what San

Francisco is doing and we could po-

tentially have other NBA cities af-

fected the way we are in the not-too-

distant future,” said Welts, who added

that they did not consider an outright

cancelation. “It’s a developing story.

We don’t know how it’s going to end.”

The NCAA had said last week that

staging March Madness behind closed

doors was a worst-case scenario. But

as momentum built over the last

week, that option appeared to be the

best-case scenario for preserving bil-

lions of dollars in revenue it might

stand to lose by canceling games alto-

gether. The pressure to rethink March

Madness further intensified as at least

100 schools took classes online, sent

students home and barred fans from

arenas.

“I understand how disappointing

this is for all fans of our sports,” said

Emmert, the NCAA head. “My decision

is based on the current understanding

of how COVID-19 is progressing in the

United States. This decision is in the

best interest of public health, includ-

ing that of coaches, administrators,

fans and, most importantly, our stu-

dent-athletes.”

Having no fans will deal a major

blow to the Division-I wrestling cham-

pionships on March 19-21, which is be-

ing held in a stadium, Minneapolis’s

U.S. Bank Stadium, for the first time.

Organizers had aimed to break the

event attendance record of more than

42,000.

—Laine Higgins and Rachel

Bachman contributed to this article.

Fans leave after an announcement that the Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Utah Jazz game on Wednesday night was postponed just before the tip off at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.

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tested negative earlier in the day for
other respiratory infections.
The NBA’s action capped a day of
high drama in U.S. sports after weeks
of attempting to keep the coronavirus
crisis at bay.
In rapid succession, some cities and
states issued orders banning gather-
ings of 1,000 and even 250 people,
which included sports games. At the
same time, a top federal public-health
official called on leagues to stage
games in empty arenas, telling a Con-
gressional panel that the moment for
sports events to clamp down on large
crowds had arrived.
The result was immediate and dra-
matic. By late Wednesday afternoon,
NCAA president Mark Emmert had
taken the advice of the governing
body’s coronavirus panel and declared
that men’s and women’s games would
take place behind closed doors—a
move that only days earlier, his top
medical official had described as a
plan “Z” on its roster of responses.
Some conferences opted to con-
tinue their championship tourna-
ments, being played through the
weekend, with fans in the bleachers.
But others, including the Big Ten, Big
12 and ACC, took steps to bar fans.
Hours before the NBA took

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