Now this is a sports column. Which means we wilfully avoid the major news topics because that's part of the beauty of loving sport - you can take some time to close your mind to the everyday evil we're (mostly) bombarded with. It's been long time since I sat down and watched the 6pm news on TV.

And 7-8 years since I would've watched even part of the 7pm current affairs comedy combo. I'm not saying this is good or bad, it just is. We (as a family) stopped watching the news when the kids  were young. Who needs their young selves subjected to that hour of misery every night?

Anyway. So part of why we all love sport is because it means talking about, worrying about, musing about, arguing about everything stupid, silly, inconsequential yet so utterly important in and around the world of sport. Sometimes, and thankfully only ever so often, the two world's unavoidably collide and sadly we can't do one without the other.

So here we are then. The whole world of sport getting more and more hogtied by a pandemic outbreak called Coronavirus.

And clearly it can't be ignored. Because it's stopping games, leagues and comps from here to the Northern Hemisphere and back. Yesterday all major US sport was suspended, ATP tour gone, the Premier League  announcing all upcoming matches to be played behind closed doors - just for starters.

Today, at the time of writing, the F1 GP in Melbourne could be postponed, next Tuesday UEFA will officially confirm the Euro champs will be played next year not this, while persistent rumours suggest  that tonight's 1-dayer in Sydney will also be canned.

So what I'm saying is, without ignoring the global crisis enveloping us all, let's just enjoy this last "normal" weekend of sport as best we can. Not ignore the cv completely but at least try and park it 'til Monday morning.

Because this weekend could be the last Devlin Radio Show as we know it for a while.

By next Saturday the DRS could well mean "Devoid of Real Sport".