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*Editor’s note: Several hours after this episode was recorded news came down of the NBA season being suspended indefinitely. Now that the NCAA has barred fans from attending games for its men’s and women’s basketball tournament, the impact of the coronavirus is now being felt in a major way in the sports world. On this week’s episode of Just Another Sports Podcast, sports editor Josh Smith and host Greg Swatek discuss this stunning decision and what else might be significantly impacted in this rapidly evolving story. What sort of impact might empty arenas have on NCAA tournament games? Will they lean more heavily toward the higher-seeded favorites since the underdog teams won’t be able to rely on the crowd to give them a boost? Plus, might the future of sports journalism be forever changed by the decision of major sports leagues to bar media from locker rooms in response to the virus? Might teams, athletes and coaches get comfortable without independently minded reporters milling around, looking for stories, and make the new policy more permanent? What sort of impact would that have on the way news is reported and stories are told?