Getting real with politics as part of sports

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"What else is in his lexicon? Baseball sticks? Football hats? But sure, I’m the foreign one.” — Former president Obama, after Republican senator Ted Cruz called a basketball hoop a “basketball ring.”

For all those who consider sports a haven from the maelstrom, I’m sorry. In the coming months and years, you’ll have better luck getting a dog to stop his bark at ba–.

The convulsions roiling the nation in the first month of the Trump administration will play out in sports, not apart from them. The political conflicts aren’t going to dominate the games, but they will hang in the air, just as they do these days at work, at school, on the bus and the playgrounds.

As in those places, many people will make strong efforts around sports to avoid political subjects, because they dread the encounters with the other side, and the subsequent distraction and perhaps distress.

But it is nearly unavoidable in sports, for one reason: There may be no other high-profile activity in the U.S. that is more inclusive. When Trump’s words and deeds threaten inclusivity, the backlash is and will be pervasive.

http://sportspressnw.com/2229513/2017/thiel-getting-real-with-politics-as-part-of-sports