Wright on: Let’s tackle football violence

You get the news in an instant these days, and then you move on to the next thing. You might have seen it in the paper this morning, heard it on the radio in the car or maybe you saw it on the Internet, and it was bad. But then it was gone.

Bad news travels fast, they say, and in a world of instant information, everyone is getting their 15 minutes of infamy. Two weeks ago, as the country celebrated the start of high school football in little hamlets, big cities and everywhere in between, the news could hardly have been worse for high school football.

In Texas, two players were seen on video tape running away from the play, directly at an official, taking him down with an ugly double team…