Sports Views

Great piece on why sports is so important.

Now there's the steroid scandal on top of everything. I'm most upset that Barry Bonds may have used steroids, or, if not steroids, some other kind of "performance-enhancing drugs." When I lived in San Francisco, I went to some Giants games and got to see a lot of Bonds. I have never seen a more exciting player to watch. You couldn't keep your eyes off him when he was on the field. Those moments when he connected on a home run and just stood there for a moment, watching the ball go... I feel so disappointed that everything Bonds has done may be overshadowed by his drug use.

And yet, despite everything, I still open my newspaper to the sports section first.

I often ask myself, "why"?

And then, the other day, I found a quote from Earl Warren that summarized it perfectly:

I always turn to the sports pages first, which record peoples' accomplishments. The front page is nothing but man's failures.

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