With the death of an old friend, Hall of Fame athlete Dave DeBusschere on a street in Manhattan, I found myself ruminating on the strange uses we make of the relentless world of sport.This is one of T.V. LoCicero's shorter works published as an ebook. The others include the stories A Round with J.C., Fixed, Shrunk, The Jungle Plant, and The Visit. He has also published the short memoir Selling the Bison. His longer works include the non-fiction books Murder in the Synagogue and Squelched: The Suppression of Murder in the Synagogue, as well as the novels The Obsession and The Disappearance.