CFL won’t start season before July due to Covid-19

TORONTO — Yet another professional sports league is feeling the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Canadian Football League issued a statement Tuesday morning acknowledging its 2020 season won’t start before the beginning of July. The statement attributed to CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie begins: “Like our fellow Canadians, we in the CFL are striving to meet today’s challenges with both pragmatism and hope. We are pragmatic enough to see our country still has sacrifice and hard work ahead of it. We urge everyone to heed the direction of public health officials in the fight to stop the spread of COVID-19.”...