Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Major League Baseball cut its 162-game regular season down to 60 games and played with no fans in attendance, leading to a $3 billion loss across the industry.

Should the 2021 season have to go on without fans as well, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred told the Wall Street Journal that the losses “would be a multiple” of this season and “economically devastating.” Manfred added that the league could look into ways to get fans back in stadiums, even if there’s no widely-available vaccine.

“If we’re going to play next year, and if we don’t have a vaccine and we aren’t past the pandemic, I think we need to think hard about what measures we can take to get people back into the ballpark,” he said.

The NHL is unlikely to stage its entire 2020-21 campaign in a bubble environment after using a two-city bubble model for its postponed 2019-20 season playoffs.

The NHL Players’ Association and the league are meeting within the next two weeks — after the final ends — to discuss plans, and a full-on bubble season is not on the table. Up for discussion are the start date, number of games, COVID-19 testing protocols, and fan attendance. 

“Certainly not for a season, of course not,” NHLPA executive director Don Fehr told The Associated Press about the bubble concept on Sept. 27. “Nobody is going to do that for four months or six months or something like that.”

The University of California, Berkeley athletic department had been facing a $55 million shortfall from its $100 million budget without football this fall — a sport it pins much of its finances on. That led the school to even consider taking out a $20 million loan to support its 30 sports and about 850 athletes.

But with the Pac-12 reversing its decision and announcing last week that it will in fact have football this fall, Cal Athletic Director Jim Knowlton told the New York Times that the need for that loan could be covered by the money it would receive from conference television partners.

While fans will still not be allowed in stadiums, Knowlton said that only 7% of season ticket holders asked to be refunded their money. The remaining either rolled their payments over into next season or donated it to the school.