A Long, Hot Summer

Collapsed stage at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis, Ind.

2011 might go down as the summer many would soon hope to forget, given all the headline grabbing incidents at live events. The summer tragedies in sports and entertainment began on Opening Day, March 31, when Bryan Stow was savagely beaten by two men in the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. Stow was a San Francisco Giants fan and many in the Bay Area thought the violence was a Southern California anomaly, but f...