Larry Nassar should act as a wakeup call. We should balance faith in the power of sports with skepticism about its institutions, because with every scandal it was the institutions that failed the most: Penn State, the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, Michigan State and USA Gymnastics, Bruce Arthur writes.
Monsters roam the earth, and Larry Nassar was a monster. The doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University was sent to prison for the rest of his life on Wednesday for molesting hundreds of girls, and 156 of them stood in the Michigan courtroom to give victim impact statements, and stare the monster down. Every one was a shattering example of damage, of strength, of courage.
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