“Don’t hate the player, hate the game” is a classic sports epithet. Stuart Scott memorialized the saying for me on ESPN Sportscenter while pleading with fans for a greater show of sportsmanship. Translated for non-sports junkies: if you don’t like the way a particular team performed on game day, say so, but don’t personalize your discontent through a personal attack on the individual who committed the key error, threw the interception, or air-balled a free throw....