The 2020 sports calendar was unlike any other calendar in the past century. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down not only athletic competitions but postponed an array of decisions that needed to be made by sports owners and politicians. A proposed baseball-stadium village complex on the Oakland waterfront was still on the table at the end of 2020. Halted by the pandemic. The government of Japan tightened its borders again at the end of 2020 because of a COVID-19 variation which put the rescheduled 2021 Tokyo Olympics in doubt. S[ports globally staggered through 2020.
