King Kaufman's Sports Daily: How the trivial world of sports matters, even in the wake of a tragedy like the Virginia Tech massacre: "Another day to wonder if sports matter.
Too many of those days in this lifetime, and not because I don't like wondering about that. I do. And I think ultimately sports do matter. But there are days when I approach this keyboard wondering if the subject of this column is too trivial, best saved for another morning.
Those -- these -- are bad days, days of body counts and saturation coverage, days of war and murder and horror, of wondering how this could have happened, of doing those clichéd things we do, or should do, when it all comes unhinged. Giving the kids an extra hug, fixing the lock on the back door.
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