Commonality in Sports

Sports in general sort of bridge a gap in racial relations that give our society a more commonality between the demographic. We all know that the relationship between blacks and whites was terrible in our society dating before the beginning of Colonial America to the late 1980's. This bridge has become very small in most recent years, now I'm not saying this society is even close to where we morally could be, but as of the progress we are making is a great step in the write direction.  One thing that sports do for our society is give us a sense of unity.  The other day I was walking through the mall and a white male in front of me was wearing a Chicago Bulls shirt and this African American woman shouted out "Go Bulls"!  Even though these people more than likely haven't ever crossed paths before they share a feeling of  commonality.  Another thing our society does that just seems to be accepted is to forgive winners, no matter how morally wrong an individual is if they're a winner we just pat them on the back and say get back out there.  Prime example of this are Tiger, Kobe and Big Ben.  The key to them is they win.  And as far as the media is concerned is that Tiger is the worst of them, but the funny thing about it is he was the only one that wasn't accused of an illegal act.  So am I suppose to believe that Tiger should of had better morals ?  Why?  Because he plays a gentleman's game, or because he's suppose to be an ambassador of the world.  If he would have went out and won a major or two not one person in the media questions his mental toughness, but that's not what happened he came out first season and laid an egg.  I don't think Tiger likes being the bad guy trying to play good guy.  He wants to be the good guy attempting to be bad.  What I'm really trying to get at here is that racism and prejudice is still everywhere, but that people are becoming more aware of individuals moral values than just the color of their skin.