Escapee re: Press: winning the bigger game: I view Sports as a diversion from all the negatives life throws our way. Sports can be unifying, or distressing (especially if you watch the Mariners), but for the time you’ve watched the game, you’ve managed to shut the door on other problems, at least for a while. And maybe in the end, that’s why we watch Sports, for the balance it provides. Those who don’t have a “team” will never understand this. At the same time, Sports grows ruder, attitudes get worse, crowds get louder, and the sport changes character. Which is why I don’t watch pro basketball. With golf, the gallery has really changed, whooping and hollering after every tee shot. Makes me cringe. But that’s the way society seems to be going these days. And now they say that Poker is a sport. Sheesh. (AP illustration)

Question: Why do you follow sports?