After an abrupt end to organized sports in the early spring we endured several months without some of our favorite pastimes. Amidst everything else, it was one more sad loss of normalcy.But then, suddenly in September, we found a different kind of historic moment, a very exciting bit of history in a sports context. We talked with Dr. Lauren Smith, a professor of sports media in The Media School at Indiana University-Bloomington about sports, fandom and the sporting world bringing more attention to social justice issues.