Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, The Endless Summer of Distraction

Tomdispatch Jock Culture correspondent Robert Lipsyte launches a new season of sports and politics by considering the major sports scandals that distracted us from all those other scandals of the summer. At this very moment, I'm taking a break from watching the last of my hometown teams in the baseball playoffs -- the Mets, my team of choice, hit the skids before the season ended and disintegrated in a way we only wish the Bush administration would -- to knock out a quick intro. Distracted? Who me?