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Greeson: A COVID-19 year that felt like a blink and a decade

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It was a year ago Thursday that the sports world stopped.

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

The NBA postponed a regular season game between the Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder that night.

Sometimes it feels like our global nightmare started last week. Sometimes it feels like the coronavirus is as old as my teenaged son.

It was also the day after Joe Biden grabbed a commanding lead in the race to be the Democrat nominee with primary wins in Idaho, Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi.