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    2020: The Year in Sports When Everybody Lost

    They don’t do that this year, not in the age of the coronavirus. Lambeau is absent of fans, and the bars and party houses are mostly empty. So are the restaurants and sausage stands at Miller Park in Milwaukee, home to the Brewers, and the seats at Fiserv Forum, where the Bucks play.

    The sports economy has been ravaged by the pandemic. The absence of live fans alone has forced the thousands of people who once put on games at these venues out of work.

    In Wisconsin, ticket agents and hot dog vendors and bartenders and janitors lost their livelihoods this year. More