THE NEWS HEADLINES have been awfully depressing lately: stock market doldrums, terrorism fears, priest-sex scandals, child kidnappings, massive wildfires, and on and on. In times like these, many of us turn to sports for a temporary respite. For instance, take 1998, when, amidst the sleaze of Anno Lewinsky, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa captivated us as they chased Roger Maris’s home run record.
But lately the sports headlines have been almost as depressing as the front page: Allen Iverson’s problems with the law; the looming possibility of another disastrous, World Series-killing baseball strike; and the shocking death of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile, among other things.
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