What To Make Of The Lack Of Professional Sports Due To The Coronavirus

Published March 26, 2020 at 8:39 PM EDT

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with ESPN journalist Howard Bryant about the the hole left in American lives with the pause in professional sports because of the coronavirus.

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