There has a been a lot going on in the sports world recently. Major League Baseball’s playoff races are starting to heat up as the season dives headlong into September, the NBA is closing an offseason highlighted by big name moves and trade demands and NFL training camps are in full swing with the regular season coming up fast.
But for all that is happening in the sports world, the real world has been even crazier with the looming — and terrifying — threat of nuclear war with North Korea, an investigation into the possibility of foreign collusion to influence our democratic process and — to put a cherry on top of the crazy sundae — neo-Nazis and white nationalists rallying in the streets of Charlottesville, Va.