Tuesday, it was announced that the officer who shot Blake, leaving him paralyzed, would not be indicted.

The pistols and Bucks took a knee before their game Wednesday, as did the Celtics and Heat protest In both the prosecutor's decision and Wednesday's riot at the U.

S Capitol, there was probably no game for players to stop playing like they did this summer as their point was made and they extracted some concessions from owners to help them with various social causes.

But it should be stated loudly that what happened Tuesday is as big of a problem is what happened this summer.

Had Blake been shot in, anyone could reasonably presume that the officer in question would face justice.

There would have been no protest months ago, and the case would have been the same after George Floyd was killed.

The response to these police involved shootings and killings stems from what doesn't happen after these incidents.

The terrible knowledge that a legal system that sees state sanctioned punishment is a deterrent hardly ever punishes officers who kill citizens even when they're obviously wrong.

The killings of tragedies.

What happens in response to them is negligence at best and at worst encouragement.

Much of the world stood outraged this summer.

Many of those who weren't where at least given pause but was truly infuriating is what happened this week.

It's bad enough how easily we could be killed.

What's worse is how hard it is to make people care that it happens.

I've always been a fan of a 14 playoff in college football, but 2020 changed my mind.

Certainly, expansion of the playoff could create more blowouts between the best of the best against a team that may not be in the same level.

But it will also create more games with meaning.

When I was a kid, I remember January 1st was sacred because of incredible bowl games featuring matchups between programs that were huge brands that rarely faced each other Otherwise.

Now bowl games have for gotten invisible, poorly played exhibitions devoid of true impact.

I want the magic of college football to continue from or fan bases.

I want success to spread to more schools, allowing for better recruiting sales pitches about potential end eventually creating Mawr balance across the college football landscape.

I want epic endings that shocked the world in a t least the chance for a Cinderella story every once in a blue moon that will create highlights rewatched for generations.

Even if expansion gives us the same championship match ups, why would I not want more time to enjoy the dramatic walk down the yellow brick road before I finally get to the land of Oz?

A classic American mantra states you come with the King.

You best not miss potentially time's running back.

Derrick Henry, the King Henry on social media.

Here's hoping they continue to do so in a quarterback driven league.

The former Heisman Trophy winner is a physical and mythical Tour de force defenders.

Ricochet off like pinballs has runs more powerful than the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs.

And it's stiff.

Farms of Category five hurricane force are an incredible signature, similar to a Simone bows.

This amount or LeBron James chase down Buck.

And then there's those ridiculous numbers.

The eighth back ever the top 2000 yards league leader in carries, yards, rushing touchdowns and yards per game for the second consecutive season.

His 1268 1st down yards would have been third in total rushing yards and in his last two games against Baltimore, Tennessee's playoff opponent.

This weekend, he's averaging 29 carries, 464 yards and that one backbreaking walk off touchdown.

Derrick Henry won't win M V p.

This year, he'll likely fall behind, or in between Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers, both of whom who had phenomenal seasons this year.

But the NFL's most fascinating man deserves from votes to because who knows when we'll see somebody like him again?

No great athlete has been a more serious contender for the highest office in the land than Bill Bradley.

When he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000, he was soundly defeated by Al Gore.

But many believe that it Bradley had run in 1992 when some urged him to he might have won the whole thing.

Like very few figures in American history, Bradley was talked about his presidential timber from his youth and then for four decades, from his days at Princeton to his Hall of Fame career with the Knicks to his three terms as a model of seriousness and principle in the Senate.

So this week, when the capital was overrun by a mob, I thought about Bill Bradley.

He was appalled.

As he told us on outside the lines.

I never thought I would ever see a president invite a mob to the nation's capital, insight them in front of the White House to go and assault the people's house.

I never thought I would ever see that, but that's exactly what happened.

Where do we go from here?

Can sports help?

Bradley says.

Yes.

What does sports have the offer?

It still gives us a picture of what is possible when we work together.

Nobody wins the championship alone.

We're all in this together in this country, just as we're all in this together.

If you're on a team at the end of the week in which we all saw things we never thought we'd see, we could do worse than to heed the words of Bill Bradley, one of the ultimate team players in one of our most dedicated public servants.