SPORTS FOR THE PEOPLE
Enter Jurassic Park. Inoculate yourself, for the sickness is Raptors fever. Please everyone, enjoy the moment, but understand I have no horse in this race. I grew up a Detroit Pistons fan. In high school, as my love of baseball faded into childhood memory it was immediately replaced by basketball. I haven’t watched a NBA game since I moved to my “new market” in 2002. I had zero interest in my only basketball option, which was subscribing to cable so I could watch the 2002 Toronto Raptors. I let it fade away. As it was with baseball when I moved north, I met no basketball fans. It took little time to realize that I had moved to Hockeyville, and I was completely content with that. So, as the Raptors currently near the apex of sports accomplishment, I can’t help but be reminded of summer 2015, which in turn reminds me of our recent political history. In the Spring and early summer ...