It's an epidemic, really. Americans get infected with baseball, basketball, football, even hockey and soccer. It can be benign, but sometimes it's pretty bad. Those inflicted with sports can show signs of depression when their team loses or a false sense of accomplishment when their team wins. Sometimes, it takes over their minds and they talk about sports when they are not watching or playing sports. It's really weird. While it's easy to blame them for their infliction, the causes of sports are unknown. There is definitely some family history involved, and like Russia, there's some seasonal sports outbreaks. I once caught a minor case of sports during the Olympics.
You can help people infected by sports by playing text games. I know, it's easy to think that people with sports should just die, but many people in our lives are infected unbeknownst to us. Sam has a major case of sports that he struggles with daily.