This is on point. I'm Meghna Chakrabardi. Sports have long brought people together.

Tens of thousands of fans show up to every game to support their local team or their country in the Olympics or even just for the love of the game itself.

At least, that's how we like to idealize sports.

He can take his male body and compete against other male bodies and fair enough.

As someone once said, shut up and dribble.

Get that son of a bitch off the field right now.

Out, he's fired.

He's fired! fired!

Well, our guest today says Grievans, which seems to have seeped into much of American life,

has also now tainted sports.

Jerry Brewer's recent series, Grievance Games, asks if that

means sports is no longer a unifying experience in this country. Brewer is a sports

columnist for the Washington Post and he joins us today.

Welcome to Onpoint.

Thank you for having me, Mejna.

So when did you first notice what you think is grievance having infiltrated sports.

This goes back about three three and a half years.

I think we had a period of athlete protest, particularly against police lethality on black lives, and you felt all the tension was about that.

And then after the 2020 election

on into early 2021, there was no athlete protest

yet there was still this tension and I started to realize that

there was a counter movement to the movement that we had experienced and I observed it for about a year, a year and a half,

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