To paraphrase Jon Landau on Bruce Springsteen: I saw sports’ future, and its name is …
Weirdness.
Drip by drip, our little games have begun to return. NASCAR ran at Darlington. Rory McIlroy won something. Racing and golf aren’t team sports, though. (Yes, pit crews – I’m aware.) It’s one person in a car or one person with a club, the caddie keeping a semi-social distance. Nobody passes the ball to anybody else. For that, we in this country must look overseas. The Korean baseball league sort of counts, though many of us were unaware of its existence until ESPN, starved for programming, bought the rights.