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'60 Minutes’ has history of cozy interviews and self-promotion
Beware of those who publicly declare that their stuff doesn’t stink.
WFAN is losing its last voice of sanity with host's exit
I suppose he lasted years longer than the game plan allowed, a split-T formation vs. an empty backfield world, but there will be no Richard Neer starting Saturday morning at...
Copycat sports networks are spreading an ugly epidemic
What plan? Has anyone a copy of it?
MLB's arrogant 'gift' to fans is costly in more ways than one
This past Sunday was a superb spring day for Mets-Yankees. Warm, sunny, inviting. Too bad the expensive interleague matchup was sold as a night game for TV purposes.
Bill Belichick has always been unhinged — Jordon Hudson drama only proves it
And there’s nothing funny about that.
The Celtics are relying on a gimmick, not a game plan
In Games 1 and 2, both at home vs. the Knicks, the Celtics — a professional, exorbitantly paid team — played without a Plan B.
Broadcast news adds another example to ugly accountability issue
One can so often get it so wrong yet never have to answer for their mistakes ... or lies.
Sports broadcasts keep betraying loyal viewers with worthless distractions
Why do we now so often know that we can do far better than the highest-paid professionals we see at work every day?
It's no surprise this ESPN hire has gone horribly wrong
The sports world, especially as delivered by broadcast media, now provides an unlimited supply of buckets with which to poison the well.
Players are ultimate losers in NCAA’s corrupt NIL payola scam
If necessity is the mother of invention, what are we going to do with all the orphans?
New series shows ugly and downright vulgar side of attending NFL games
What people see watching A&E's “Stadium Lockup” is the violent, vulgar, bloody, drunk and disorderly social rot one increasingly expects at NFL games.
MLB surely has changed —with more ridiculous ineptitude
Sure, the preferred way to explain the decay of fundamentals throughout big league baseball is to shrug, and say, “Well, The Game has changed.”
Masters way off with shameful 'honor' for ex-con
CBS and ESPN can marinade all the solemn, sanctified glop on the Masters and its hallowed grounds and buildings they choose. Pastor Nantz’s hush-toned seasonal sermons can preach his reverence...
Eagles GM undercut his own noble concept — and exposed the true NFL ethos
The words recently spoken by Eagles GM Howie Roseman, self-made 49-year-old father of four and gatherer of Super Bowl champion personnel, made both noise and news.
Transgender athlete policy among trio of illogical legal rulings that have left sports in ruin
Justice is served! Come and get it!
Right from Opening Day, greedy Rob Manfred shows where MLB's priorities lie
After you’ve punched your best customer in the head, what’s the best way to apologize? That’s right, next kick him in the groin. It’s the Rob Manfred/MLB business model.
Dirty underbelly of college basketball is as pervasive as ever
Roll over, Tide, roll over.
Ridiculous March Madness moment once again proves that college sports are a con
Not everyone will have a future in video games to fall back on.
Perennially underused March Madness voice offers rare example of quality broadcasting
There are exceptions to most every rule. As long as they’re exceptional.
West Virginia governor's phony cry of NCAA corruption breaks hypocrisy meter
Momma never told me there’d be days like these.