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MLB's abysmal playoff coverage somehow finds a way to hit a new low
Taking their best customers for drooling, money-to-burn saps and gawkers of product logos attached to every sight has become MLB’s business model.
Playoffs can't keep MLB, networks from insulting their viewers
This was a particularly difficult week to suffer what TV has become.
Greed has made a mess of MLB playoffs
This time MLB, with its glut of follow-the-money qualifiers, seems eager to do it again unless the biggest-market Mets or Dodgers and/or Yankees, survive their managers.
There was nothing redeeming in Pete Rose's character
My only conversation with Pete Rose came in the early 1980s, when he was with the Phillies. And he started it.
How to fix insufferable NFL pregame shows
I harbor a desire to produce an NFL pregame show, one different from all the others as it would be — get this — interesting and entertaining.
Shohei Ohtani's historic season enabling MLB's money-first con
Unlike MLB, I’m not financially bound to believe anything declared by Manfred’s office.
NFL's mistreatment of fans creating once unfathomable ticket reality
There it was, last Sunday on Fox, during the Commanders-Giants game: an advertisement to purchase this season’s Giants tickets!
Sports world already has moved on from past concern for athletes' health
The “Never Forget” vow is tossed around quite a bit. In sports, however, it takes minutes — until the next pitch, punt or power play.
Uncivilized behavior only making national referee epidemic worse
So give it some notice and thought Sunday, as you watch what TV and its NFL and MLB business partners continue to do to our sports.
Penn State, Notre Dame got just desserts for taking on cupcakes
A school and its money are soon parted.
Sports fans keep getting taken advantage of — in more ways than one
TV judge Simon Cowell was seen in a commercial during Friday’s Yankees-Cubs on YES endorsing Domino’s Pizza. As if ... What money can’t do, it will.
Sports TV keeps disrespecting viewers and this week is no exception
I had a sense of confusion over the weekend when CBS rolled out promos for its “new” NFL pregame show.
Rise of legal gambling helping fuel fans' ugly behavior toward athletes
What do you suppose has driven the escalation of “social” media put-downs, threats and unfettered hatred that has been aimed at pro tennis players?
Sports TV remains bereft of dignity and common sense
Yes, I’ve become a grumpy old man. But what made me grumpy at 32 makes me grumpy at 72. There’s just now a lot more stuff to make me grumpy.
Too many broadcasters have too much fluff rather than opting for silence
Ever consider whether game announcers return home after games to review their recorded work?
ESPN's disgusting influence is infiltrating Little League World Series
It was revolting yet not surprising given that ESPN has so assiduously tried to devalue and diminish the LLWS since it first aimed a speed gun at 12-year-old pitchers after...
What made 'Hawk Tuah Girl' first pitch for Mets even more shameful
It was Camp Day at Citi Field on Thursday afternoon, thousands of kids in the ballpark, So the Mets invited "Hawk Tuah" girl who had found sudden fame and following...
ESPN takeover sadly buries iconic radio network
Since I was a kid, we’d gone everywhere together. Camp, college, Cross Bronx Expressway. And I have no doubt that WCBS News Radio 880 played a role in my desire...
Sports media more than willing to cover for college sports' biggest offenders
Supposed journalism outlets like CBS Sports too often ignore the dark side of their subjects.
Yankee Stadium's 'learning moments' remain things we should already know
From the moment this Yankee Stadium opened in 2009, it has become a headquarters for the preposterous.