The Trustees of Boston University. All Rights Reserved. It was during the first few confusing days following the presidential election that I heard somebody suggest turning to sports for a solution. It seemed like a stupid idea then. Surely determining who'll next occupy the White House is important business.
Sports are a diversion.
Everybody knows that. But, as the machinery charged with untangling this muddle has sputtered and stalled, turning to sports has begun to seem less dumb. Since Mr. Gore went to Harvard and Mr. Bush attended Yale, if we'd thought of it earlier, we might have tied the outcome of the presidential election to the Yale-Harvard football game. Unhappily, it's too late for that now. The game occurred two weeks ago, and it's so insignificant on the national football landscape that nobody but the coaches, the players, and their immediate family members remembers who won.