Every once in a while, real life intrudes on sports in a way that makes me smile, not because I’m drawn to darkness but because it brings out a type of reporting not typically seen in the sports pages.
Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and his wife, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, reportedly are having marital problems. A sportswriter would make note of that out of journalistic duty but only in the context of how the stress might affect Brady’s play each week. What the exasperated scribe really would like to ask is what any of this nonsense has to do with zone coverage or a particularly nasty defensive line.