Duke Keith opinion

Why bother with all that effort, all that work if you don’t really care? Why not roll out the pucks and say, “Come watch hockey!”? Unless it really does mean more.

Why would Oklahoma's Norman HS girls basketball team kneel during the National Anthem? Watch the sad, pathetic, near-karmic exposure of exactly why.

Do we want to come together? To begin to heal the wound that has been reopened over and over in this nation since before we were a nation and finally let it scar?

So, to Utah Jazz center and American sports’ COVID-19 Patient Zero Rudy Gobert, I would like to offer the following heartfelt sentiment. Ahem. “Thanks, dumbass.”

When PHX's Solomon Asante gracefully swooned like a 19th-century debutante who'd just heard an unbearable secret, it had become ascending Mt. Everest.