Hey, What Happened to All the Good News?

I would like to quote a radio sports talk show host of a few years back: “In the department store of human affairs, sports is, after all, the toy department.” On your first page of Saturday’s sports section, the articles pertained to a cancer death, a brother on death row, an ex-athlete convicted of bank fraud, an athlete going to jail for tax evasion, an abusive father, and a commissioner discussing economics.

Some toy department, Superfan!

KEN JOHNSON

Pinon Hills

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It makes me sick to see such a “heartwarming” and pathetic story, “Inside Looking Out” (Jan. 28). The author mentioned that “seven heavy barred doors, armed guards on alert and a sentence of death” would be the reason for keeping Kenneth Hartley from being at his brother’s Super Bowl game. Garbage! It was the hideous crimes that he committed that put him there.

BRIAN JOHNSON

Montclair

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It was Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas who said he read the sports section first because he wanted to read about human deeds, not misdeeds.

After reading Saturday’s sports section, I wish you could bury all this negative information in the back under “Jurisprudence” and just publish Pakistani cricket scores up front.

MATTHEW A. BERNSTEIN

Los Angeles