The world of sports is going through some strange changes these days. In college basketball, fans don't know what they're rioting for. And in Major League Baseball, they may soon be able to wear their greed out on their sleeves. In college basketball, of course, I'm talking about the riots at Michigan State University at the end of the Spartan basketball team's Final Four loss to Duke University.
Sports riots are nothing new.
Almost 15 years ago, when the Detroit Tigers won the World Series, mayhem broke out. It's not peculiar to our state or my alma mater, either. It's happened in several other U.S. cities over sports victories and in Europe over soccer games. There's always been something amazing about people who had nothing to do with a sports victory celebrating by trashing things. Our guys beat their guys.