As I look at the acres of sports coverage on TV, I'm reminded of the old quote from Noam Chomsky:
'One of the functions that things like professional sports play, in our society and others, is to offer an area to deflect people's attention from things that matter, so that the people in power can do what matters without public interference'.
Yup, sounds about right; as our political class fiddle while Rome burns, they try to distract us with sports.
