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Games over

The NZ Herald website invites us to “Watch live: NZME and Sky Sport News bring you the big sports stories of the day.”

But there’s really only one big sports story right now and that is that sport is disappearing from our lives.

It’s like the Saturday morning kids’ sport cancellations but on a grown-up, global scale: Super Rugby is suspended; the English Premier League (EPL) is suspended; the French Tennis Open has been postponed until October; the football tournament formerly known as Euro 2020 has been put off until next year; the Masters golf tournament has been postponed until a

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