Four pro sports leagues — MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS — plan to close locker rooms to the media over coronavirus fears
, identify a facility that can conduct testing for COVID-19, create a plan to limit the number of team and arena staff who have close contact with players and have a process to distribute hand sanitizer to players and team staff.
The NBA has promised to restore full locker room access once the coronavirus abates, the Pro Basketball Writers Association said in a statement.MLB said in a statement that while it"recognizes the fluidity of this rapidly evolving situation, our current intention is to play Spring Training and regular season games as scheduled. In a joint step with other professional sports leagues, we are requiring that Clubs relocate media availabilities to another area in their facilities.
Multiple teams training in Florida have barred players from signing autographs and instead have distributed pre-signed items to fans. Other players still sign for fans while others, such as Oakland pitcher Mike Fiers, have bounced past fans and explained they can’t sign due to the looming health crisis.
“You’re hearing more and more about it now, with the big sports starting to put some on it,” Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Corbin Burnes told USA TODAY Sports on Monday, before the ban on clubhouse outsiders was determined. “As more things come out more about the development of what we’re going to do to try to protect against it, obviously it’s one of those things that’s growing and we’re still gaining our knowledge about it.
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