Tag: Domingo Germán

I suspect I share this with many others: Over the last 500 or so days, I often wanted to ditch politics entirely. Sports became my shelter from the storm, a field of competition in which performance can be judged with a degree of objectivity and blustery hot takes on Twitter do not threaten the republic. True, it says something about my attitudes toward President Donald Trump that a political obsessive like me would want to escape the news — and, I’ll admit it, not hear that voice. And sports are by no means an airtight sanctuary from political discord. One of them is Trump’s inability to allow a sphere of life to remain independent of his influence. He always needs to divide, and he insists on being the center of attention. Nor do I forget that professional sports are about making money. And although I’ll always be a baseball fan, I truly fell in love with the NBA this season. The NBA owners should give the NFL owners seminars on these matters. Oh, and after LeBron and Curry each said he wouldn’t go to a White House victory celebration if his team won, Trump said he wouldn’t invite the NBA champs.