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Baker Mayfield made a fool of himself by mocking Tommy DeVito gesture
After rising, Baker Mayfield immediately, as if rehearsed, began to perform a classless, bad-winner mockery of something-string Giants QB Tommy DeVito and his media-enriched stereotype by making double paisano finger...
NFL, NBA greed has ruined our sacred holidays
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I’ll be home for Christmas. Chestnuts roasting by an open fire. We shall overcome.
The absurdity of college sports extends well beyond the athletes
Bob Nehwart left us one college football season too soon. In one of his famous one-way phone conversations, he’d have had great, satirical fun with what this season has become.
TV betting 'experts' leaving fans relying on blind bad faith
You can’t handicap the bounce of footballs in one game, let alone 14.
Football's never-ending onslaught has killed any remaining thrills
It just seems that by Sunday night, let alone Monday night, no matter how appealing the flexed-for-TV-dough matchups, the thrill is gone.
Slugger Juan Soto's showboating makes him tough act to suffer as free agency frenzy heats up
I’ve found Soto a tough act to suffer back to when he was a showboat on feeble Nationals teams.
Why I'm breaking up with the Giants after 60+ years of fandom
This past Sunday, after the Giants’ drag-arse loss at home to Washington, I filed for an open-ended separation.
NFL 'tanking' is a ridiculous idea — and not even needed with foolish players
Season’s greetings! The end of the World Series brings the start of a somewhat new but now well-acknowledged season: the NFL Tanking Season. This is when unthinking, repeat-anything fans are...
This World Series was the absolute worst — and it's finally over
Thank goodness that the worst-played, worst-managed, worst-televised, worst-spoken and worst-cluttered playoffs have gone to their maker.
Classic World Series Game 1 burdened by ceaseless yapping
The Game 1 verdict was unanimous. It was harsh and came quickly — bottom of the second inning.
What I'm expecting from Fox's World Series coverage — fake laughs and all
So let’s get our Fox World Series preview out of the way then move on.
Clueless TBS has made ALCS unwatchable
Today we pause to give our eternal thanks to TBS for allowing us a few brief, presumably live moments of the last can’t-make-it-up inning of Thursday’s Yankees-Guardians playoff game.
Vin Scully would be dumbfounded by today’s MLB broadcasters’ incessant screaming
The legendary Dodgers broadcast now must look down from his ethereal, misty broadcast booth to ask, “What the heck happened?”
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!