Sometimes athletes are black. Depending on your sport of choice, this might be a big deal. And when a black athlete is on the rise-or even just in the mix-in an affluent, white-dominated sport, it becomes a very big deal. That's because writers like to write about these unexpectedly or surprisingly black athletes. In the past decade, the term "the Tiger Woods of [sport]" became common shorthand for a certain kind of athlete: the kind who is "changing the face of the game."

So CBS News runs this AP story with a headline that makes you read it more than once. "Bridge Collapse Widow Adopts Haitian Twins." And, yeah, yeah, you're already like, come on! And sure enough, yes, Minnesotan Betsy Sathers lost her husband of ten months, Scott, when the Minneapolis freeway bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River in 2007. And she thought she was pregnant at the time, but then her sorrow was compounded when she found out she was not. She didn't know if she ever wanted to get married again, but she knew she wanted to be a mother. So she started the process to adopt a child [...]