Sportswriter Dave Zirin correctly analyzes the fallout from
Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware’s horrific injury in the NCAA
tournament. Zirin points out that while the school, which makes millions of
dollars from intercollegiate athletics, may pay for near-term medical expenses,
Ware will be on his own afterwards. And if Ware is unable to play, his
scholarship is not guaranteed.
Is Louisville the most profitable college hoops team in USA? Yup. But not for Kevin Ware. m.cnbc.com//id/100581891
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) March 31, 2013
Yet, in a sense, Ware is lucky. Our nation is creating
thousands of Kevin Wares and Eric LeGrands every day in unnecessary wars in the
Middle East and elsewhere. Men and women who come back without limbs, with
stress-induced mental diseases, or in body bags.
As the nation’s attention is riveted on the Final Four™,
other 20-year-olds are having their lives altered in worse ways than Ware’s. We
must support the troops by bringing them home.
