哀鸿遍野的美国大学生体育队
The shock of the NCAA canceling college sports largely is gone.
全美大学生体育协会取消大学生比赛带来的冲击已经过去。
The cost, is not.
而其代价却并未过去。
Santino Morina, a 20-year-old wrestler at Old Dominion University in Virginia, felt it last week when he got an emergency email.
弗吉利亚州欧道明大学20岁的摔跤手桑蒂诺·莫利纳上周就从一封紧急邮件中感受到了这一点。
"It was urgent news," Morina says, "[it said] we need to have a team meeting online at 4:30."
“当时是紧急消息，”莫利纳说，“通知我们说四点半开线上会议。”
Morina logged on from his home in New Jersey, where he's staying during the pandemic.
莫利纳疫情期间一直在新泽西的家中隔离，他在家里登上了网。
He heard his coaches announce that because of financial issues, they were ending the school's wrestling program.
这时，教练对他说，因为财务问题，学校的摔跤队解散了。
A program that had been part of ODU sports since 1957.
而欧道明大学的摔跤队是从1957年开始创建并延续至今的。
"It was April 2," Morina remembers, "so I was like 'Oh it's probably just an April Fool's joke.' And then, the more they started talking to us, the more I realized this is no joke. This is for real. The coaches were getting emotional and it really started to sink in, like, it's actually over."
“那天是四月二号，”莫利纳回想道，“所以我当时还觉得'也许是愚人节玩笑'。后来，找我谈话的人越多，我越发意识到这不是笑话。这是玩儿真的。教练们都很难过，悲伤的情绪蔓延开来，仿佛一切都结束了。”
The shutdown of sporting events due to the coronavirus pandemic has put athletic careers on hold and interrupted the flow of money that makes sports such a big business.
因为新冠疫情造成的体育赛事的暂停中断了很多人的运动事业，也阻断了原本可观的体育行业的现金流。
College sports are trying to deal with the shortfall and dreading what happens if the shutdown affects the big moneymaker: football.
大学体育队都在努力度过难关，他们还担心如果这种暂停影响到最赚钱的项目——橄榄球该怎么办。
This month, the NCAA was going to start distributing about $600 million to its Division 1 member schools, like Old Dominion.
本月，全美大学生体育协会本来会给一梯队的成员投资600万美元，比如欧道明大学。
But with the cash-cow men's basketball tournament canceled, along with spring championships, the figure plummeted to $225 million.
但因为很赚钱的男子篮球锦标赛以及春季冠军杯都取消了，投资金额缩减到了225万美元。
It helped seal ODU wrestling's fate, and left athletic departments everywhere, scrambling.
这就导致了欧道明大学摔跤队的解散，其他的大学体育部门也在挣扎求生。
Iowa State Athletic Director Jamie Pollard recently announced many in his department are taking pay cuts and coaches are suspending bonuses and incentives.
爱荷华州的体育部长杰米·波拉德最近宣布，他们部门在大面积降薪，教练们的奖金也延期了导致他们士气低落。
On a conference call with reporters last week, Pollard said it could get much worse.
在上周的一次新闻发布会上，波拉德说情形可能还会更糟。
"We're probably in a phase right now that we're in a long hard winter," Pollard said, "but if we can't play football this fall, I mean, it's ice age time."
“我们可能进入了一个漫长的寒冬，”波拉德说，“但如果今年秋天还打不了橄榄球比赛，那可就是真正的冰河世纪了。”
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