Like many of you, I suspect, I turn to the sports pages and ESPN as an escape from the disturbing and depressing “real” world. That’s the world in which our national Congress is paralyzed, the economy is mired in a recovery that is leaving millions on the outside and three wars produce more casualties than progress.
GEORGE KENNEDY: Missouri athletes tops in academics
Thursday, June 2, 2011 | 12:01 a.m. CDT
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