Fear in Sports

sportsJohn Calvin – As a sport executive in 2015, I saw the future and became a prophet in the wind, the proverbial canary in the coal mine.  That is when I began sounding the alarm over the politicization of sports by the left and spoke of the implications for America.

Over the course of the next several years, I wrote thousands of words on the subject under a pen name, the pseudonym came from knowing I would be bounced from the industry in a New York minute if my identity were known.

My concern predated Colin Kaepernick taking a knee, and if you were reading me back then, MLB’s recent decision to become woke activists and move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta would have come as no surprise to you.

So how did American sports end up like this? Continue reading