COVID-19 will dramatically alter how reporters cover sports, and that extends well beyond local announcers often calling games from a studio instead of a stadium.
For the first time in history, most sports journalists for newspapers, TV and radio stations and websites face the likelihood of no in-person interviews with players or coaches for the remainder of 2020.
The locker rooms, the place where countless original story ideas are hatched from conversations with players, will be closed to the media for the foreseeable future, likely at least until a vaccine has been produced and widely distributed.
A look at how the leagues are handling access for print and broadcast sports reporters during a pandemic:
