‘Grievance games’: Can sports still bring people together?

Washington Post sports columnist Jerry Brewer used to have no doubt about the unifying power of sports.

But in recent years, Brewer says that Americans are bringing political divisions to the games.

Today, On Point: Can sports still bring people together?

Jerry Brewer, sports columnist at The Washington Post. Author of a series of columns called Grievance Games, which examined how the promise of sports as a national unifier has buckled under the pressures of grievance and division.