Sad State of Sports

Published: July 26, 2007, 10:38 am

Tags: sports, barry bonds, baseball, basketball, football, michael vick, steroids, tour de france

Baseball is about to annoint a new home run king who has allegedly boosted his late-career stats with the help of steroids. Basketball is coping with a referee accused of betting on the game, including games he worked. Football is figuring out what to do about a star quarterback arrested on federal charges of dogfighting. And two leading Tour de France teams have withdrawn from that competition because of doping suspicions. That's four sports mired in scandals. Am I the only one who thinks it's time to reconsider the central place we give sports fandom in our lives and our culture--not to mention the amount of money we spend on it? I can't help thinking of the time I was a rookie reporter covering a middle-class suburban community. The school budget was subject to a public referendum, and one year voters rejected the proposed budget--meaning the district's schools would function for the year on an "austerity budget" with funding only for essential educational programs. No

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