Sports writing is an inherently results-driven enterprise. When the team you cover wins, you heap praise on players and explain why the (insert nickname here)s are succeeding. When that same team hits a rough patch, as the Cincinnati Bearcats have, there’s a responsibility to put the failures into context and diagnose what’s wrong. Too often, the silver linings go unheralded.
There is one such silver lining wrapped around the cloud darkening the skies around UC basketball, even if that cloud really shouldn’t be that ominous. That silver lining personified is Cane Broome.