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The WNBA’s national anthem buffoonery sends a clear and ignorant message

The WNBA has set its course on self-ruin as it rots from the inside out.

Sports are an easy gig when you drown out the questions about integrity

 Take your pick. You wanna be Gus Johnson or Roger Goodell? Both gigs are easy and pay a fortune. 

NBA team flaunted its ugly hypocrisy with the unjust firing of young announcer

Ever do something foolish when you were 15? Of course you did. 

Sports broadcasts can’t stop telling fans what they really think of us

Good thing we’re all too stupid to know any better. 

Bizarre Pope prop bets for MLB postseason only bring more questions

So much for the separation of church and home plate. 

Our sports culture is being redefined — one disgusting lowlight after another

Saturday afternoon, within five minutes of landing on ABC/ESPN’s Texas-Tennessee game, I went searching the remote for a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) button. 

Adding up sports’ swings and misses — including Nike’s plummeting stock

Before 2-plus-2 became a matter of opinion, I preferred single-digit numbers as stand-alone numbers. Last week provided witness to several numbered news items of sports business note.

NC State’s airheaded loss kicked off yet another embarrassing week of college and pro football

Confusion, chaos, carnage, corruption! Another week of what we still call, absent an accurate term, sports.

NFL pregame shows have become unwatchable — and here’s how to fix it

Nothing points to the 21st Century’s inability of TV to come up with fresher, better ideas than the Sunday NFL pregame shows. They remain “skip it” TV.

This longtime Giants fan is inescapably resigned to rooting for clowns

It’s tough to shake such boyhood affections and afflictions. So I remain, quietly and often under protest, a Giants fan.

The concerning preferred norm engulfing our sports

The media and dopey fans will still support replay rules because “they get it right!”

NFL experts’ prediction game an exercise in ignoring reality

When will the media learn that football is not played in a test tube, that it’s not Strat-O-Matic they played in their parents’ basements? 

Sports broadcasts provide no escape for viewers looking to avoid insult

It’s easy to blame television for all that lays us low and then lower. That’s the problem.

There’s an ESPN double standard when it comes to the offensive

But it’s clear by now that ESPN is another network that advocates unfair play as the preferred route to fair play.

Why is 12-year-old star girl Kinley Rasmus a LLWS aberration?

This week we were asked to be astonished by the batting and pitching successes of 12-year-old Kinley Rasmus, a girl, for the Little League World Series entrant from Alabama.

Tony Romo’s DUI arrest gives CBS potential escape from its $180 million mistake

Tony Romo’s one-too-many bust wasn’t fatal to Romo or to any innocent victim, but it could cost him.

Little League World Series betting has arrived to deliver us to an unfathomable low

In your most twisted imagination you wouldn’t reach the degenerated depths of this sell from hell.