In these oh-so-knowing times, it is commonplace to mock the suggestion that events in sports can be a metaphor for real life. Cynics call it a sports-metaphor alert. But maybe it’s the other way around. Given the confused state of real life, we should consider ourselves lucky that sports exist as a mirror for reflection. Exhibit A this week, bigger than the NFL, is “the mother of all meltdowns.”That was the New York Post’s apt description of Serena Williams’s hyperemotional stoppage of play in the second set of the U.S. Open...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 12, 2018 22:52 UTC