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Sports, Tribalism and Loss

The role of sports in a world that wants to separate and divide people, with sometimes violent consequences.

I live in Colorado Springs, and last week there was another shooting down here. A man walked into a Planned Parenthood building and before he was done nine people had been wounded and three were killed - including one police officer who was a friend of my family.

I did not know Jennifer Markovsky or Ke'Arre Stewart, the other two casualties of that shooting, but Garrett Swasey was an elder in my father's church. My dad is also an elder there and a mentor, and I knew Garrett casually from dinner conversations and various get-togethers.