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Hochman: In a time of protests and a pandemic, just how important are sports?

Missouri's Nick Bolton just misses intercepting a pass thrown by Florida's Kyle Trask in the third quarter of a game on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019 on Faurot Field in Columbia. (Robert Cohen,

In our country right now, are sports not important at all … or are they more important than ever?

“That's a great question,” said Myriama Smith Traore, a forward on the St. Louis University women’s basketball team. “I think that sports are more important than ever, because of how important the platform is that athletes have — and how important the unity is that comes from athletics.