Making Financial Headlines · Page 10
Sports Calendar Encounters a Timeline It Cannot Negotiate
· New York time
MarketWatch’s coverage of blood clots, including in athletes such as Jalen Hurts, cites research finding that professional athletes can take more than six months to return after treatment for deep-vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. That timeline puts the tightly scheduled world of professional sports beside a recovery process that may run well beyond a season’s convenient milestones. The league calendar can assign dates to games, broadcasts and promotional appearances. Recovery has declined to join the scheduling committee. Even the most elaborate preseason spreadsheet cannot turn a medical timeline into a flexible television window.
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