One can only imagine the thoughts going through the minds of the athletes from Miyagi Prefecture's two major sports teams, Nippon Professional Baseball's Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and Velgata Sendai from the J. League, right now.
They may be trying to focus on the task at hand in their sports, but in reality their hearts and minds are probably back in the Tohoku region.
It's sometimes easy to forget — given their often other-worldly exploits on the field — that athletes are regular people with families and friends who may have been effected by the recent disaster in Japan.