ABSTRACT
In chapter nine, “When Sports Stood Still: COVID-19 and the Lost Season,” Donna J. Barbie and her co-authors argue that although sports cannot distract or unite us through a particular tragedy, their suspension does present an opportunity to examine their importance in our culture. They argue that such an opportunity offers a chance to observe how deeply, if at all, we feel the loss, how we manage to cope and work around it, what we are finding to fill the void, and how this unprecedented event might change sports, or how we view them and their place in our lives.
