Letter: Sports coverage proves that if it bleeds, it leads

Two images in recent newspaper editions teach us lessons. One was about flag football, an interscholastic sport that minimizes serious injury to young athletes. The other is the Sunday story about the women’s bare-knuckle boxing match before 6,000 fans at the Blaisdell Arena and a world audience online, with the prospect of brain injury and facial disfigurement (“Bare Knuckle debut in Hawaii a hit,” Star-Advertiser, April 12).

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