The stain on sports

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesOver the past week, a deep, unsettling feeling has lodged itself in the pit of my stomach—a feeling that makes me worry about sports and our devotion to it.

Last week, The Fountain Hopper reported team captain Bobby Okereke as the previously unnamed player in a 2016 New York Times piece that questioned Stanford’s handling of a sexual assault case. Within hours of the report, the Associated Press released a statement from the Indianapolis Colts indicating that they were aware of the allegations against Okereke when they drafted him.

A female student, according to the Fountain Hopper, invited Okereke to her dorm room in an encounter that began consensually. During…