Sports journalists, at least the good ones, aren't enjoying these pandemic precautions. If you're a media member covering a major professional sports league, chances are you've been resigned to interviewing athletes through a Zoom conference call or, at the very best, a general media conference with social distancing guidelines in place. This is all well and good for TV types and journalists looking for sound bytes. And it's fine for those who want to write their boring nuts-and-bolts regurgitation of the game. But for actual insight, both about what happened in the game and about what makes the players tick, all of the best avenues to that information are gone. Locker rooms are off-limits. Opportunities to get players for one-on-one interviews, I'm guessing, are almost non-existent. Sports teams and organizations I'm sure are thrilled with this development. It's an opportunity to control their athletes even more. (They will say they are "protecti...
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