“Sports is a huge part of the American fabric,” Auriemma said. “Sports is what separates people from worrying about color, religion, race. Sports is the one thing that makes people come together and rally, my team versus your team. And now the one thing that sports does, bringing people together in one place to share that experience, the sharing of the experience is what causes people to get sick and some people to eventually die from this disease. All the great things that sports brings us are a negative at this point in time, which is totally, incredibly mind-boggling.”