"Half of sports fandom - perhaps more than half - is about the joy of hate. You hate entire teams of athletes simply because of the city they play for."
"...a new, more pernicious strain of hate - more corrosive, more intimate - has been creeping into the game for some time...It is the inorganic byproduct of sports betting."
"In an Instagram post last Wednesday, French player Caroline Garcia...posted a sampling of the messages she'd received after her first-round loss...Some advised her to kill herself; others contained threats against her family."
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