Good-bye 2013
So long 2013, it feels like we barely got to know you. You were a year of wonder and amazing- hey the Auburn Tigers just pulled another victory rabbit out of their helmet – and a year of perspective.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o waits for a snap.It was a year that introduced the mainstream public to catfishing, the internet hoaxing world made famous in the fallout of the Manti Te’o girlfriend hoax, that bullying exists in the locker room, that concussions are a threat to the country’s most popular game and that tanking is the modern definition of trying to win by losing.
We got too many lessons and tutorials on steroids and PEDs by the same cast of charactures – A-Rod, Lance, Ryan, Rog and the rest of the usual suspects – to the point that the outrage has turned to indifference.
We got too familiar with the fact that golf fans are the most powerful in all of sports since they actually get to double as rules officials with 55-inch HD monitors.
We got too painful a reminder that terrorists have little regard for anything other than terror in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.