Rutgers coach Greg Schiano (left), Gov. Phil Murphy (center) and Giants coach Joe Judge (right) are three of the most influential people in New Jersey sports for 2020.
In order to rank the most influential people in New Jersey sports, we operated under this assumption: That, someday in the not-too-distant future, there actually will be sports again.
It has been more than a century since the nation has experienced a pandemic that impacted life like the coronavirus has. The shutdown of professional and collegiate sports was swift, dramatic and -- until proven otherwise -- unrelenting.
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