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970 WBLF. I’m Wes Richards with some thoughts on the world of sports.
I’m a little late to this trough, but… Okay, everyone, you can go back to your seats and relax now. Germany has won the World Cup and LeBron has returned to the Cavs.
A world at last at rest.
Soccer fans -- known everywhere in the world but here in the US as football fans -- are nuttier and more volatile than American football fans.
But there hasn’t been a knock-down-the-stands riot at an NFL game in this country since Columbus.
Unlike baseball’s World Series, the World Cup really is an international affair. It’s also a big bucks operation.
The host country this time, Brazil, proved that it could hide reality long enough for most of us to forget how terrible conditions are for some there. High crime. Street urchins. Poverty. Disease.
A big, beautiful country with a big heart and big heart disease.
So after nine-thousand rounds, there’s a winner… this time, Germany. Makes college basketball’s March Madness seem like a cameo instead of the endless betting parlor it really is.
Speaking of Basketball: LeBron James is a really really good basketball player. And he’s a native of Ohio. And he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers for a long time. He was a first draft pick back in the day. And they picked him.
After seven seasons, he went to the Miami Heat. Now, after weeks of intense guessing about his future, he shocked the world by going home.
The Cavs can use his help.
The Heat was getting cold.
And this is no knuckle dragging dummy. His new 19 million dollar contract has an escape clause after a year. And lots of other bells and whistles.
Many a burned out or retired professional athlete has found himself adrift after the games are over.
So James has to keep an eye on the future.
And based on the Hamlet-like public pondering about where to go after the Heat, we see James has a good eye for the public consciousness.
More power to him. And more money.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
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