"In the wake of a year of devastating loss, loss that has permeated every inch of our being, sticking to sports will tell us what we need to know."
What to speak of in 2020 beyond the parameters of COVID-19, beyond a global pandemic that by the earliest vestiges of spring came to define everything we did, thought, said, and consumed?
In typical fashion, I looked at it through the lens of sports, writing an essay for CNN Opinion that fit only a fraction of what there is to say about a year that felt like no other.
