Sport: Cartoons redrawn on grass

Little in this world is as clearly defined as sport: Winners and losers, heroes and villains, feelings of life and death. There is too often no perspective, no sense of balance, no tomorrows.

It is this very idea of the simplicity of extremes that heightens sport’s appeal for spectators. Sport lives and thrives on the raw passions of all involved. The glory or the anguish is rarely contaminated by ambiguity: Sport has little room for emotional subtlety.

The apparently disproportionate nature of reactions to every aspect of sport lures so many people to consider sport as something that is somehow unreal, somehow frivolous.