How do you write about sports when it doesn't feel like a game anymore? This is the crux of the question I've been struggling with over the last few weeks. Like many of you, I was shocked at the election of Donald Trump to become our next President. Also like many of you, I paid as he did things differently when it came to talking about the political foes he defeated, how he went about assembling a cabinet, and how he engaged the press. Everything about this point in time in history feels historic. No set of Americans have ever elected someone like Donald Trump as President. Nobody, not Trump of the mobs of Twitter people that seem to follow him, have used Twitter to attack people so directly almost like a weapon, especially focused at journalists that are trying to get at the truth. Frankly, nobody knows what's coming next. So how do you write about sports at a time like this? How do you compartmentalize what you're feeling about the election, and ...
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