“Stick to sports” is dead. Long live “stick to politics and do sports in your spare time.”
On an otherwise peaceful Monday, we discovered that Duke’s second-round loss to South Carolina is being blamed in part on North Carolina’s controversial law SB 2, which caused the East Regional first round to be moved from Greensboro, N.C. to Greenville, S.C., thereby giving South Carolina a home-court advantage (and Duke a disadvantage) it should not have otherwise had.
The argument is nonsense given that South Carolina clearly played the superior game, but it is made nonetheless because politics.
Then Denver Broncos executive John Elway, using his own letterhead, endorsed and urged senators to approve Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.