Sport an all too familiar forum for real-life tragedies

ESPN has to be careful how it goes at the best of times.

Sport an all too familiar forum for real-life tragedies
Wed, 19 Dec, 2012 - 00:00
John Riordan

Its dominance of US sport is well chronicled. With great power comes great responsibility and the associated PR headaches.

The atrocity in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday was always going to be a long shadow across the slate of NFL, NBA and College games set for the weekend.

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