America’s prayers answered as Tebow inspires a nation

THE HEADLINES ebb and flow but this last week in American sport gushed in an entertaining torrent of confusion. It didn’t matter if the moment was glorious, seedy, violent or downright miraculous, skill and common sense ranked low and we, the humble onlookers, were all the better for it.

It begins and ends with Tim Tebow but I’ll get back to him.

Last Thursday, Los Angeles woke up to surprising news. Or to be more specific, the much-maligned Orange County in the south of that lopsided neck of the woods and whose City of Anaheim hosts the relatively nondescript Anaheim Angels, a team that has, apart from the 2002 World Series, generally plodded along as a Major League Baseball team.