In a city where football is more than a sport, the gun death of John Beam has provoked an outpouring of emotion In a city where football is more than a sport, the gun death of John Beam has provoked an outpouring of emotion F ootball in Oakland, California , is more than a sport. It’s a community. In many schools, coaches are like parental figures who get young people through vulnerable times, into universities and sometimes even drafted to the National Football League. So when gun violence