Politics and Sports Redux

So.

A suicide bomber attempts to make his way inside a stadium where the French and German national teams are playing a "friendly", with the President of France in attendance. He is turned away and detonates himself on the street, the explosion audible inside the stadium. The choice of targets was not accidental.

Sports and Politics and Boston

You see it a lot on sports blogs: "Leave out the politics and just write about sports". This generally happens when a sports blogger voices an opinion on a topic that one member of her or his readership disagrees with. At that point, out come the demands that the blogger just "stick to sports" and leave the "right wing crap/hippie liberal socialist crap" (depending on the blogger and the audience) at home.
One can almost sympathize with the folks who feel that way. They're there to read about sports, after all. We get enough politics in our daily lives. We want the space between the white lines to be free of it, a charmed circle where competition is what matters and the striving is all. We want a break from contention and argument and name-calling, well, a particular type of name-calling, and we want a break from the consequences that politics seems to have and sports seems to avoid.