Goodnight, and Good Luck

My most sincere thanks to Mike McCann and the rest of the regular contributors for their support during this week. Their willingness to spend time advising me on these posts speaks volumes about the success this blog will surely continue to enjoy.

As my stay as a guest ends, I hope to clarify the quiet aspiration of these posts. My tone has most often been critical; examining the ways our athletes or our media presentation thereof fail to confront issues of discrimination and bias. Yet this is because sports no doubt carries an incredible potential to transmit cultural values. In other words, though we face difficulties today, these posts are aimed at the best in our athletes; in their ability to lead us by example into a better and more tolerant era. Sport can transmit bias but it can also transmit progress.

Sports figures, like sports events, lead double lives. I have written these posts in the hopes that our superstars choose to live these lives responsibly, as examples to aspire to rather than discount. In this regard as well, the contributors to this blog should be commended.

Goodnight, and good luck.

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