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This catch phrase is NBA's latest way of promoting vulgar goons
May 14, 2022 | 2:29pmRemember: After you “whoop that trick,” be sure to tell her you love her. But first help her back to her feet. How can any intelligent, well-comported sports fan not...
MLB streaming its viewership to oblivion
May 12, 2022 | 8:32pmBy agreeing to streaming its games, MLB has allowed itself to become a lab rat, with baseball fans used as rat bait.
ESPN’s NBA ‘analysis’ hits a new low with rapper's appearance
May 7, 2022 | 2:52pmFor some reason the NBA and its TV partners have determined that unless you’re a big fan of rap music, you can’t possibly be a basketball fan.
Replay reviews designed to 'get it right' lead to more nonsense
May 5, 2022 | 8:31pmThe Rangers likely lost Game 1 of their Stanley Cup series Tuesday against Pittsburgh to another unintended application of all sports’ replay rules.
MLB is asking for violence with this promotion
April 30, 2022 | 2:57pmExactly who was targeted in those promos? And why? Was that repetitive promo a come-on or a stay-away?
Bad ideas overtaking sports due to this diminishing practice
April 28, 2022 | 7:25pmWe have become so immersed in ideologies that useful, common sense — practicality — is no longer considered useful.
Adam Silver must return decency to NBA
April 23, 2022 | 2:51pmSave the NBA from what it has allowed itself to become. Return self-respect, dignity and decency to the sport.
Analytics ruining baseball for the extreme worse
April 21, 2022 | 8:29pmEveryone sees it, everyone knows it, everyone recognizes it’s killing baseball, yet it persists. Baseball is ruled by math based on the broadest possibilities, ones that spread corrosion posed as...
The Yankees have let John Sterling wreck games for decades
April 16, 2022 | 2:47pmFrom Jim Kaat’s book releasing Tuesday, “Good as Gold: My Eight Decades in Baseball”: After one year in the Yankees’ TV booth [1986], “Lev Pope, the president of WPIX, wanted...
MLB, Masters coverage hit embarrassing new lows
April 14, 2022 | 7:46pmWhat a weekend. Two collectors’ items. Best left out for the garbage collectors.