Sports Distract from Real Issues

Will Leitch believes that people use sports as an escape from what really matters in the world. Their investment in sports grows as events in the world worsen, its seen consistently in many situations such as the Boston Marathon Bombing. Instead of investing their energy in issues, they divert it towards their favorite sports teams.“The nation needed a diversion, something to take its collective mind off war and disease. Rice and his colleagues filled the need, promoting baseball, college football, boxing, tennis and golf by creating heroes out of Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden, Red Grange, and Bobby Jones, among others.” Issues in America consistently are the catalyst for writers to distract themselves and their readers with the wonders of sports.