Sport: North America's start-up operations hit by COVID-19 fallout

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TORONTO (Reuters) - On the North American sports scene the Canadian Premier League is a corner store operation and, like all small businesses that have been hit by the new coronavirus, the future is uncertain.

Last year, the professional soccer league's first, the eight team CPL established a toehold in the Canadian sports market but is now hanging on by a thread.There is no major television deal to pump cash into club coffers and no sign the federal government is ready to throw the league a requested $15 million lifeline.

"It would be very difficult," said Clanachan."Could there be another way to do things? I don't know, I don't know what that looks like. However, nearly seven months later the All Blacks great has yet to set foot in Toronto and might not this year even if the Super League does restart.With no share of the Super League's TV deal or access to the 16 million pounds loan the British government has made available to the Rugby Football League, the sport's governing body, the Wolfpack have to rely on ticket sales as their main revenue source.

"So to fly over for an empty stadium game would not make any sense. We would play that game in the UK.For the Toronto Arrows, the only Canadian club in Major League Rugby -- North America's top-level rugby union championship -- the season is over. MLR is shutting down, cutting its losses and looking ahead to next year.

 

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