A GRIP ON SPORTS • The world of sports was quiet yesterday. So quiet, actually, as to be safe from the creatures in Quiet Place 2. But not a virus so small it can’t be seen even with a pair of +250 readers. So what should we give you over the next few weeks that will make those readers worthwhile?

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• See that byline at the top of the column? Ya, that one. Underneath it is my email. If you have a request for something, use it. See, I’m trying to figure out what to write about over the next few weeks, or, god forbid, months.

My son and I batted around some ideas in the living room yesterday, from putting together a countdown of the greatest athletes of the past 100 years – or my lifetime, whichever is shorter – to the best games I’ve ever seen in person.

I’ve also thought about sharing stories from my past, stories about professional athletes I’ve interacted with on a personal or professional level, a Forest Gump-type series of columns that might be pretty fun – at least for me.

Or we could be a little more like everyone else and put together a fantasy NCAA Tournament for this season or dip into the memory banks and tell you what happened on this day over the past 50 years.

Any of it would be fun. Some of it would be entertaining. And none of it would take the place of watching the Players Championship this weekend, wondering if LeBron James can stay healthy for the rest of the NBA season or seeing who is the 14th seed in the East on Sunday.

Yes, this is a strange time. With strange demands. We’re here to try to make it a little more normal, to give you something to start your day with no matter how odd the rest of it might be.

So go ahead and send your suggestions. We’ll read them. And come up with something fun to do.

• There will still be news to cover, of course. Like today. We’ll stay on top of that as well. The Spokesman-Review, however, is cutting back on its sports coverage for a while – why not, there isn’t much in the area to write about – so we may reach a little farther afield for links.

Maybe we’ll even find someplace new we will want to take you many days.

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Gonzaga: Spring sports seasons at the college level have stopped and there will not be a championship ahead, as the NCAA nixed that idea already. Justin Reed spoke with athletic director Mike Roth about that and the news yesterday this year will not count against spring athletes’ eligibility clock. … Elsewhere in the WCC, BYU’s season didn’t end the way it wanted, of course, but it was still special.

WSU: Around the Pac-12, the prevailing response to the current situation has been simple: no one likes it but everyone understands. … If the NCAA does find a way to allow seniors to return next basketball season, the stars like Oregon’s Payton Pritchard, won’t be back. It’s the average players who will be affected the most. … The NCAA tried to save some semblance of its tournaments. … UCLA built a foundation this season. … Arizona State might resume spring sports when the virus’ impacts subsidy. … What might have happened for Arizona? … In football news, all schools have suspended spring practices and pro days. That includes Utah, Colorado and Arizona. … This is like finding a unicorn. It’s a story that praises USC and Mike Bohn.

Preps: The spring sports seasons are on hiatus, which would have been the case around here today due to the 5 inches of snow some of us received. (Snow, really? It was 50 degrees the other day. I liked that. It is 17 right now.) Anyhow, Dave Nichols talked with Greater Spokane League secretary Herb Rotchford about what’s ahead. … A Tacoma Dome worker at the 4A and 3A tournaments tested positive for the virus yesterday. Dave has more in this story.

Chiefs: Larry Weir has been practicing social distancing with his Press Box pod since its inception. His latest guest? Chiefs’ play-by-play voice Mike Boyle.

Mariners: For a while baseball tried to keep everything the same, just with opening day postponed and spring training games canceled. But that didn’t work. Yesterday, everything was closed down, allowing the players the freedom to make decisions for themselves. … Those who work on the periphery of professional sports, in arenas, ballparks, on broadcasts and such, are going to be hurting, financially, for a while.

Seahawks: Hey, the NFL is still in business. Mainly because most of the business this time of year can be done remotely. Maybe we’ll even have the first NFL draft brought to you by Skype. On Skype. It sounds like a bad episode of “Futurama.” Richard Nixon’s head can welcome all the draft picks to their computer screen.

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• What sporting event signals spring for you? For me, it is always the Masters. I keep that week and weekend free because all I want to do is sit and watch every second I can. Well, if I get to watch the Masters this year, it won’t be in early April. It’s been postponed, to when no one is sure. But if the folks decide to play it the first week of October, I’m guessing the sports world will open the weekend for it. Until later …