VOICE OF THE FAN.(Letter to the Editor)

Choice voice `There is a new breed of quarterback in town part man, part machine, all heart. Daunte Culpepper ... you can't catch him; you can't tackle him. Nobody can outthrow him. Best you can do is try to look good when you're bouncing off his thighs.' --Robert Warwick, Lake St. Croix Beach, Minn.

Where's the passion?

In reference to Rick Ballou's "Sound Bite" on baseball's All-Star Game (TSN, July 23), he is absolutely correct about the Midsummer Classic and the game of baseball in general. I am only 13 years old, and although I probably would be labeled with the rest of young America as only caring about the long ball and flashy plays that would get me on some highlight reels, that couldn't be a more incorrect assumption. It seems a shame that more kids aren't as passionate about baseball as they should be. Baseball is supposed to be something that whenever you get the chance to go play it with others, you take that chance. It's really upsetting that people in general aren't more passionate about the game of baseball.

 
Mike Valdes 
Carteret, N.J. 

Stained Games

* Dave Kindred speaks out against the 2008 Olympic Games being awarded to China, a country "that ordered tanks against its own people" (TSN, July 23). We have failed to recall, however, something similar that happened only a few decades ago. In 1965, police brutally attacked activists who were peacefully marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, Ala., in the hopes of securing their civil rights. Fifteen years later, that country hosted the Winter Olympics. It's sad to admit that the country I speak of is our own.

 
Jonathan Griffin 
Boston