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Gimme Shelter: Finding Solace in Sports When the World Shows its Ugly Side

I gotta tell you, faithful reader, I’m scared. I spent the morning in a state of muted shock after hearing the news that a reporter and her cameraman had been gunned down in Virginia while filming a live segment. By a disgruntled former co-worker. Who then uploaded to Twitter the video he had taken of the murders. Then I heard about an incident right here in my own hometown of Indianapolis in which man had stabbed a woman and jacked her car. And drove through downtown running over pedestrians.

What the hell is wrong with people?

I can’t fathom the depths of evil lying beneath such shallow regard for humanity, I just can’t.