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Can we talk a little about Bedlam?

It was a pretty good game and, yes, my team won. I didn’t even get to watch the game. We were working on an emergency water leak for a couple of friends and caught about the last four minutes of the fourth quarter on the radio.

It wasn’t very long ago that all I did was watch sports on Saturdays and Sundays. I grew up watching some of the best athletes who ever stepped on a court or a football field or a diamond.

I was “The Fan” … until something changed.

In the past five years or so I have often wondered why my propensity for sports has waned. I think, after...