Letters to the editor: Lessons sports teach us

Lessons sports teach us

Through the years I learned to be a gracious winner and to accept a loss, but never to like it and learn from it for the future.

I recently watched four games of the DIAA Boys’ Lacrosse Tournament. A family member plays for Cape Henlopen High School.  The games were intense and exciting, a roller coaster ride to say the least.  In the quarterfinals Cape defeated a tough Archmere team in a close, tense and highly contested game.  After the game, the father of an Archmere player approached me, shook my hand and congratulated me on the win.  My wife and I were just so impressed by this moment.

This final game of the tournament was tough, physical and intense, as it should be. It was one we lost.  As I was leaving the stadium, I could not bring myself to find a fan of the opposing team and congratulate them. The moment just did not feel right and I will say no more.

The scoreboard does indeed show who won and who lost and a champion was crowned, but life itself is a long game, full of ups and downs, successes and failures, and also comes complete with its own final examinations.

Terri and Buzz Klopp

Lewes

Trump's illogical excuse

In last week's press conference at the White House garden, President Trump said he could not have asked James Comey for a pledge of "loyalty" because "I hardly know the guy.”

That would be precisely the good reason for you to demand his loyalty. Had you already known him well, you would have no need to ask for loyalty.

The rebuttal to Comey's sworn testimony was not only laughable, but an insult to the intelligence of all Americans. Shame on you.

I regret that I even voted for you.

Kuang F. Lin

Greenville

Open dialogue on HB 190

As a member of the First Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board, I am gravely concerned about HB 190. The "minor" changes, in the proposer's eyes, are really "large" in their potential damage to the coastal zone. The 14 listed sites are in environmental remediation from previous and ongoing contamination. Potential changes to these sites are completely unknown.

This legislation as proposed, and any potential changes to it, must receive the same public hearing process as the original Coastal Zone Act to uncover all potential damage they could cause.

Please require HB 190 public hearings.

V. Eugene McCoy Jr.

Brandywood

Stop ignoring the science

Two of the biggest problems affecting our world today are the warming trend of our planet and the proliferation of drugs of abuse.

Failure to deal effectively with these problems will have dire consequences.

Well-documented scientific data is available for both problems. Unfortunately, the leaders of our society are not scientists and don’t pay timely attention to scientists.

Clearly, the warming trend of planet Earth will influence in particular our next generation. Yet, I hear that there are still people who don’t believe about what is going on and related projections.  These people should be forced to take high school remedial classes.

There is genuine interest in solving the drug abuse problem. Yet, the vast majority of people addressing this problem ignore the basic science behind it. It took four decades to find an application for naloxone, a drug now widely used to rescue overdose victims.  This class of drugs has so much more to offer, but progress is moving at infinitesimal small steps.

These are two problems that share a wealth of scientific background which is not properly grasped or understood. Scientists must speak up, force their help and their contribution.

Michael Finizio

Wilmington

Development contributes to climate change

A lot of time, space and words have been used in talking about global warming. But has anyone ever calculated hot much heat is radiated back into the air because of miles and miles of paved roads along with acres and acres of parking lots for malls, and large buildings?

And what about the millions and millions of roofs on houses?

Thankfully, Delaware is investing millions of dollars to buy farm land to slow or stop developments. But how many other states are doing that?

If we all stopped protesting and starting calculating more, we might have part of the answer to warming.

Wilbur Bubb

Dover