Wisconsin’s gritty win over Kentucky Saturday night and tonight’s match-up between the Badgers and the Duke Blue Devils are wonderful diversions for Americans from a world that horrifies far more often than it entertains.

The murder of 148 and the wounding of scores more in the massacre at Kenya’s Garissa University College campus is just the worst of the stories that we would rather not focus on too much.

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