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[Lead photo HT: Tony Barnhart]

Sponsor Note. If you've got a small business this is a good time to have a lawyer check out your Ps and Qs. If you're starting one there's no time like the present to get yours off the ground. Here's an idea: drive around picking up children and taking them somewhere. It doesn't matter where. Just, you know, away. You can bring them back if you want. Later.

If you're starting a voluntary child abduction company, that sounds like something with a lot of legal bits to figure out. Richard Hoeg is the man to do that. He's got a small law firm specializing in small businesses. Even if you're not planning on going into a business as fraught with complications as child… well, I don't want to say "care"…

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If only. South Korea has resumed playing baseball, albeit in a modified form.

KT Wiz held a socially distant first pitch before their game today pic.twitter.com/DR0R9wulRi

— Dan Kurtz (@MyKBO) May 5, 2020

Random sports things have resumed!

We have a smoke delay, there is a building on fire near one of the stadiums pic.twitter.com/b5mUnkO10t

— CJ Fogler (@cjzer0) May 5, 2020

The Bundesliga is preparing to resume as well.

Both South Korea and Germany had no-bullshit, hardcore responses to coronavirus. This Atlantic article describes the Korean response in exacting detail. South Korea had the advantage of a preseason game, as it were, when MERS ran through their hospital system a few years ago. The government reacted with a lack of transparency and was blasted out of office afterwards. Mask wearing is culturally entrenched; idiots cosplaying as militia aren't roaming around demanding that nail salons re-open; public health is not politicized.

So they get baseball and soccer. We get nothing.

[After THE JUMP: maybe I'll start writing about old television shows]

I mean it's still okay guys. Bummer city for basketball recruiting over the past couple days. Let's survey the carnage on 24/7's rankings:

It's gonna be fine.

Class sizes vary so widely in college basketball that team recruiting rankings often spit out absurd results—would you rather have MSU's class of #34 and #75 or Wisconsin's class of #84 and four guys ranked #145 or lower—but here Michigan's also at the top in per-recruit quality. They'd drop some if Jace Howard was re-added; they'd still be ahead of the rest of the league.

Michigan's going to continue going after high end guys and some are going to come. Josh Christopher deciding that Arizona State is better for his Global Brand™ than Michigan… well, let's say that's a one-off. Just have to have a little more patience. In the meantime here's this top 50 center Michigan beat Duke for and a couple other top 100 croots.

[After THE JUMP: moist]