Web Exclusives: The Varsity Typewriter  October 10, 2001: Sports
in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 By Patrick Sullivan '02
Let the records show it.  In many ways, a sports column appears
trite in the tragic aftermath of the events of September 11,
2001. I consider it a formidable task to entertain the now-
dwarfed realm of college sports, especially given the fact that
the topic furthest from my mind should be the central focus of
my words: sports. What does a columnist write when there were no
athletic contests to analyze, no athletes to applaud, no last
second heroics to describe?  He writes precisely that.  I
applaud Princeton's decision to cancel all sporting events
throughout the remainder of the week and weekend following the
cowardly, despicable attacks on the World Trade Center, the
Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania. I heartily endorse the symbolic
gesture of an empty football stadium on a perfect Saturday
afternoon, or the unity of the teams that attended memorial
services instead of practices.  I