Next steps - sorting out the aftermath at PSU

Bob Wojnowski, Detroit News

I regularly follow Detroit News columnist Bob Wojnowski for his wit and humorous approach to covering the sports stories from my home state and around the country.  I also spend a little time bantering with some of his colleagues on Twitter and e-mail because they are good, fun people.


Today, like many in the past week is not a day for banter or jokes.  Bob's words in his weekly column express what a lot of sports fans are feeling at the moment; confusion, outrage, sadness, and many other things that are about 180 degrees from the things we normally feel about the sports and teams we love.  

Whether you talk to Angilique Chengelis, Jamie Samuelsen, or the Free Press' Michael Rosenberg, sports is not the topic in most of our minds with the aftershocks of this awful situation at PSU still waiting for resolution, which may be far off.  More than anything, most of us feel awful about what happened to these kids and don't know what to do about it, but celebrating a weekly game seems far off the mark.  


I'd share with you some of Bob's thoughts on the subject because today I just can't find words of my own to add.  I think, like Michael Rosenberg wrote today, there is so much positive that can be done to make a difference in the wake of this horrific series of events, but first we have to address the remaining issues of today and get the right perspective.  
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