> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # This Week In #SocialDistancing: It's a new season, one like any other before - URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/this-week-in-socialdistancing-its-a-new-season-one-like-no-other-before/ - Published: 2020-04-07T14:30:55.000Z - Updated: 2020-04-07T14:30:55.000Z - Description: Monday night should have been the end of one of the most exciting three weeks on the national sports calendar. - Author: Joe Marchilena - Tags: Spring Sports, pandemic season, slider, sports, This Week In Social Distancing, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44 Monday night should have been the end of one of the most exciting three weeks on the national sports calendar. The college basketball season was supposed to come to an end with the NCAA Division I men's national championship game, the culmination of a typically action-packed tournament that my best friend and I have enjoyed together for the better part of the last 15 years. Our typical routine is to take the first Thursday of the tournament off from work and go somewhere to watch all of the games until we're either too tired, or physically unable, to watch any more. We'll usually get together and watch a couple of other nights of the tournament as well. Until this year, of course. With no tournament going on, and no bars or restaurants open, this tradition is taking a year off for the first time since I moved back to New Hampshire. And to prove how quickly things can change in life, I had almost forgotten about the game, until my friend sent me a text Monday afternoon, lamenting the fact that it wasn't being played. One of the biggest nights on my non-high school sports calendar, and I pretty much forgot. It will be a month on Saturday since any high school sporting events took place in the state, and about that long since any took place at the national level. And while I've certainly missed the things that come with watching sports, whether it's for pleasure in front of the TV or for work at a stadium or a high school, I'm not sure I've always noticed. My world is now full of regimented chaos. Nothing is as it should be, but yet, I've fallen into a fairly consistent pandemic schedule, and with no sports on that schedule, I feel like I've lost track of time. It's stopped being March or April, or spring time or lacrosse season; for three-plus weeks, it's been COVID-19 season. For me, that's meant (fortunately) going to my other job three days a week. I've taken on the responsibility of grocery shopping for the household, which feels a lot more important and epic than it used to. So that, along with a coffee run every other week, has been my extent of going into the world, a place that vaguely resembles the one we lived in not too long ago. It feels almost like we've been bumped off our timeline and shifted to some alternate 2020, like a real-life Biff Tannen put a sports almanac from the future in the wrong hands, and for some reason, it put us on the track to a global pandemic. Maybe my subconscious is trying to keep me protected from thinking about a world without sports, maybe that's why I was able to forget. I mean, I still consume as much news as I used to, but these days it's all about one topic. I don't know what I'd be reading anyway. Most sports stories right now are speculation about the NFL draft, which is mostly meaningless because you can't predict what is going to happen, or stories about when the sports world is going to go back to something resembling normal, which is also pretty meaningless because we can't predict what's going to happen. It's the same with the high school sports scene. Everyone I've talked to, or traded emails with, seems hopeful that things really will pick back up on May 4, but ... Unfortunately, COVID-19 season doesn't have a set schedule, and all we can do right now is hope - and continue social distancing.